The last several months for me has been one big blur between all the work I’ve been doing for my current client, speaking at code camps and working with Nas on a FBA project.  These months have had a lot of positive things (learning new things, meeting new people, building working relationships and getting to work from home more) and negative things (working long hours, driving a lot, working long hours, not having time to spend on my blog and did I say working long hours) but overall I think it’s been worth it.

Believe it or not I’m still working with the same client since January and it looks like I’ll be doing it for one more month before starting a new project.  The last 5 months I’ve got to learn so much more of a different side of SharePoint than the previous year.  I keep thinking that I’m getting my arms around SharePoint but the more I work with it the more I find out how little I really know or at least it seems that way.  SharePoint 2007 is so much larger than SharePoint 2003 when it comes to every piece of it but I am glad to say that there is a lot of documentation on MSDN, TechNet, blogs and forums and this has made it a little easier to learning things. The new things that learned I’ve been trying to make sure it doesn’t stop with me.  Granted I have not done it with my blog but with speaking at code camps instead.  Granted that doesn't reach a lot of people and thats why I'm hoping to start blogging on a regular basis again.  Just think this year along I’ve spoken at 8 different code camps within the first 5 months and I can actually say that I’ve really enjoyed it so far.

At the last code camp (Nova) I did the unthinkable and spoke on something other than InfoPath and I don’t think it went to bad.  I’m not sure it was fantastic because I was up until 3 in the morning trying to get WSS v3 and SharePoint Service Pack 1 installed and only had 4 hours of sleep before we left for the code camp.  I’m hoping in the future I can push myself to talk about other topics and not stay in my safe zone of InfoPath.  In the coming months I’ll be continuing my speaking at the SUGDC Summer Regional SharePoint Conference in June and HRSSUG in July.  Both talks will be about InfoPath in one way shape or form and I really am looking forward to these events.

I’m hoping in the coming weeks I’ll have more time to talk about some of the work I’ve done with Nas and maybe help somebody out in the process.

Cheers,
Michael