Chris Johnson
All about Chris Johnson, SharePoint Products & Technologies & Other Stuff.
SharedView is very cool.
Every once in a while I am blown away by something. Not because it is the latest and greatest,...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/28/2008
Who's the kiwi?
Saw this chap ask Steve B a question at Mix ... he sounded like a kiwi ... I mean he used "Wicked"...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/11/2008
Floor cleaning robots...
We moved into our new house last week and it is a lot bigger than the last. That means lots of...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/06/2008
What do Mix 08, Silverlight, the Beatles & New Zealand all have in common?...
At Mix08 today Hard Rock demo'ed their new web based Silverlight 2.0 application that allows a user...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/05/2008
It almost made me cry too.... kinda...
Scoble recently had a wee cry about a new Microsoft Research project called World Wide Telescope...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/05/2008
My Hugh MacLeod sketch ...
At the Office Developers Conference a few weeks back Hugh MacLeod was at the attendee party drawing...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/29/2008
B visits campus
My good friend Brendon, from New Zealand is over in the Seattle at the moment for next weeks...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/29/2008
Office Developers Conference 2008: SER325 SiteFeed.Demo session files
Today Alex and I delivered a session about using the VSeWSS toolkit for developing applications on...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/12/2008
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, version 1.1 RTM!!! + User guide Part 1.
Updated: Official SharePoint team blog post Today we announced the availability of VSeWSS 1.1 RTM at...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/11/2008
Billg's Harvard Commencement speech
This made me laugh out loud and at the same time almost brought me to tears. A fantastic speech by...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/08/2008
More fun marketing ... this time with comics.
This time for the Heroes happen here campaign. A comic series about tech stories......
Author: chjohn Date: 01/31/2008
Famous Kiwi launches US into space...
Not many people know his name or what he did, but he was none the less a very important man. He was...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/30/2008
Lone Server...
Another funny marketing campaign to promote the launch of Windows Server 2008. This is all about the...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/25/2008
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2008... I'll be there!
The ODC is shaping up to be a great event for SharePoint developers. This year it is on Feb 10-13th...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/21/2008
Couple of winter campus shots...
Took these on the way to work a couple of days ago. First time I have lived anywhere that properly...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/17/2008
NewsGator stuff for free...
Read over on Rod's blog that NewsGator got some funding and made a few of their products free. Great...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/11/2008
Deploying files under the TEMPLATES directory in a SharePoint VSeWSS project
A common thing you might want to include in a SharePoint solution is to include various files that...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/10/2008
Turn your Windows Mobile phone into a mobile Wireless Router to the Internet (Seriously Geeky Stuff).
I came across this the other day and thought I was far too geeky to let pass. This tool will let you...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/09/2008
Taking compact to a whole new level...
Ryan had a laugh this morning when he saw this in the car park. Compact? Really? ... I mean I have...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/17/2007
Building a simple ASP.Net page based SharePoint application in Visual Studio with the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS CTP 1.1
UPDATE: I HAVE RE-WRITTEN THIS POST FOR VS2008 and VSeWSS 1.2 HERE Introduction This is the first in...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/14/2007
Microsoft Office System Servers Service Pack 1 is out!!!
For all those people waiting to get their hands on this ... here it is:...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/11/2007
Great SharePoint Training...
I get lots of comments and emails from people asking about how they can learn to do development on...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/10/2007
Hilarious video on the Web 2.0 bubble...
Some education for those noob young start up CEOs out there :)
Author: chjohn Date: 12/10/2007
Stay at home servers...
https://www.stayathomeserver.com/ Quite funny videos... all about Windows Home Server.
Author: chjohn Date: 12/04/2007
SharePoint Developers ... what are your tools and environments like?
Something I take great interest in and spend a bunch of time thinking about are SharePoint...
Author: chjohn Date: 11/28/2007
Halo 3
Thought this was hilarious...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/25/2007
Attensa RSS Reader
If you are like me and want to read your RSS feeds in Outlook, but wanted a more powerful experience...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/24/2007
New MOSS & WSS Sdk released....
You can browse the SDK online through the following links: · Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK ·...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/23/2007
Windows Live Custom Domains
I have a personal domain that I use for personal email etc... and until now have had this either its...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/22/2007
New Visual Studio SharePoint Extensions CTP released....
Very cool to see a new release of these tools for SharePoint developers using Visual Studio. Cool...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/21/2007
LINQ to SharePoint
Recently I have been brushing up on some topics that I had sidelined on my todo list to catch up on...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/08/2007
What in the world is CJ up to? His PM job in WSS at MS & what does he want from you?
Until yesterday it has been quite a while since I blogged. Basically here is the list of things I...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/19/2007
Document libraries, Folders & Content Types
I have been asked a few times if it is possible to associate different Content Types with different...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/19/2007
Bomber man on Xbox Live...
One of my favorite games ... now multiplayer on Xbox Live!!!!...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/17/2007
maps.live.com gets all topigraphical....
I noticed this a few days ago and think it rocks!!! maps.live.com is Microsofts mapping software. In...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/17/2007
New SharePoint WhitePaper -- SharePoint Products and Technologies customization policy
If you are a ITPro/Developer working with custom SharePoint solutions this whitepaper will...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/05/2007
USA
Just a quick note to friends and people that read this blog ... that i am settling into my new job...
Author: chjohn Date: 05/09/2007
Using ASP.Net user controls in your WSSV3/MOSS ASPX pages...
Following on from my post of application dev on SharePoint (here), I have had some people ask how to...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/27/2007
NZ Prime Minister in Redmond with Steve...
Snapped on the MS Campus in Redmond. From the left: Helen Robinson (GM of MS NZ), Rt. Hon. Prime...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/26/2007
Updated Application Development Post...
I had a commenter suggest another fantasic option for integrating an ASP.Net application with...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/15/2007
Redmond bound...
Just a short update to say that I have accepted a position with Microsoft in Redmond. I will be...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/18/2007
More on NZ Gadgets...
Dropped a couple of these on my sidebar... the ASB Business one is great! Video clips nicely...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/31/2007
Vista in NZ ... and specific New Zealand sidebar gadgets...
Vista launches in New Zealand today ... lots of excitement. Here is a link to some really cool New...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/29/2007
YouTube videos direct to Zune...
Have been using this IE addon for a while now and I now classify it as the must have Zune accessory....
Author: chjohn Date: 01/03/2007
Music suggestions....
As you might have read in my previous posts I have signed up for the all you can eat Zune Pass to go...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/28/2006
A new way of consuming music...
I have long tormented about the process of buying music online, as i know many others have. Do you...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/10/2006
BusinessWeek on Zune...
https://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2006/tc20061207_744659.htm This is the quote...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/07/2006