Boulos Dib

Upcoming Presentation – Knockout.js at New York ALT.NET

Boulos — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:34:37 +0000

Really excited to be presenting Knockout.js at one of my favorite user group: the NY ALT.NET group.

http://www.nyalt.net/events/50792242/

Sharepoint 2013 Training for Devs and IT Pros

Boulos — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:49:12 +0000

Microsoft has released 2 sets of training videsos for Sharepoint 2013 targeting both developers and IT professionals.
Details at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vesku/archive/2012/07/17/sharepoint-2013-it-pro-and-developer-training-materials-released.aspx

Its going to be a busy training summer!!!

Enjoy!!!

Windows 8 Virtual Labs

Boulos — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:39:07 +0000

Microsoft has released a set of Virtual Labs for Windows 8 development. These are nice as the only requirement is a browser; no setup nor complicated installation needed.

See links at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/jj206431

Upcoming Presentation – Extending LightSwitch Apps

Boulos — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:30:53 +0000

I am excited to be presenting my talk on extending Lightswitch applications at the NYC .Net Developers Group.
For details please see the registration page at: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=159520

Winning!!! Windows 8 Tablet from Pluralsight

Boulos — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:01:22 +0000

Yesterday, was one of those crazy days. While on the phone working out details of my next consulting contract, I found out via twitter that I was the winner of the Pluralsight Windows 8 Tablet. Wow, I could not believe it. Since I did not attend //build, I was hoping to get one of those tablet sometime before Windows 8 launch date, but I decided to wait for the right time. Now, thanks to Pluralsight, I will have one and just in time for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 beta.

Then I needed to get ready to run some errands, and then another email came in for another potential contract, nice.

Of course, I needed more, so I decided to attend a Parallel Data Warehouse talk at the NYC SQL User Group at the Microsoft Office in midtown NYC and what happens, I win the raffle for an Amazon gift certificate. Weird in a good way.

So thank you Pluralsight and Thanks to the NYC SQL User Group for making my day!!!.

PowerShell for SharePoint Developers – Part 2

Boulos — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:35:33 +0000

On November 16, I gave a presentation to a room full of SharePoint Developers and Admins on the use of PowerShell in SharePoint. This was a follow-up presentation to the PowerShell instroduction presentation I gave back in September. I was pleasantly surprised to see many familiar faces from the NYC Metro SharePoint community. Even more surprising, the positive feedback received.

Thanks to all those who showed up.

Download slide deck below.

Upcoming Presentation – SharePoint For Developers – Part 2

Boulos — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:05:00 +0000

Back in September, I presented part 1 of my PowerShell for SharePoint Developers talk where I provided a generic introduction to PowerShell. As a follow-up, I will be presenting Part 2 on November 16th at the SharePoint Developers User group where we will start by reviewing key PowerShell concepts discussed in Part 1, then look at SharePoint PowerShell implementation as well explore the various categories of SharePoint specific PowerShell CmdLets. Finally we will apply the concepts in scripts manipulating the SharePoint object model.

Details and registration can be found at: http://www.meetup.com/nycsdug/events/22453641/

Hope to see you there.

LightSwitch Talk at the NYC Silverlight Meetup.

Boulos — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:34:00 +0000

On Thursday October 13, I presented my talk titled “Light up your out-of-the-box LightSwitch application” to a group of about 30 developers. I was surprised to know that at least one individual was already looking at deploying production applications using LightSwitch while a number of others were interested. The talk centered around the customization of LightSwitch application including the use of custom or third-party extensions. Basically a slightly modified version of the Code Camp NYC talk.

Windows PowerShell Command Builder

Boulos — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:41:38 +0000

This week Microsoft released a SilverLight based tool called PowerShell Command Builder. The visual tool utilizes a drag-and-drop to assist with PowerShell commands. SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Office 365 are the only supported products.

The tool is available from Technet and the Getting Started Guide can be downloaded from Microsoft Download site.

The tool runs SilverLight in-browser, but it can be installed with out-of-browser on the local user’s machine.

Upcoming Presentation – LightSwitch at SilverlightNYC

Boulos — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:59:29 +0000

I will be giving yet another LightSwitch and Extensions session at the NYC WPF & Silverlight meetup on Thursday October 13, 2011 http://www.silverlightnyc.com/events/36476722/.