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Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint – Experience

Posted by: Rai Umair on: July 8, 2009

I recently had the opportunity to attend rotation 3 (R3) or the first public offering of the Microsoft Certified Master program for SharePoint 2007.  This without doubt will be one of the most intense, humbling and gratifying experiences of my life.
After a gruelling three weeks of SharePoint expert training and intense peer discussions, three difficult [...]

Quick and Easy way to Logging in SharePoint

Posted by: Rai Umair on: September 19, 2007

I am a big fan of exhausting OOTB functionality at all levels in any platform. Simply put reuse saves a lot of time! SharePoint is no exception, in fact it has a really rich code base. I have seen a lot of developers adding custom logging components to their SharePoint dev projects. It’s almost impossible to work with Event [...]

[This is a sneak preview to a whitepaper that I am writting]
Short answer:
It depends…
Some reading to whet your appetite:
With the eminent pervasion of SharePoint as the mainstream web application development platform at most Microsoft shops, it’s more then essential now to get the SharePoint infrastructure right. Ideally it should be an abstraction for developers and business [...]