This week is the Microsoft Ignite conference. I am not going. I do not think I have been to single IT conference except the SQL and SharePoint Saturdays and the local MSDN Hands On Training (HOT) a few years back. I have ben saving huge amounts of money for my employers over my career. What amazes me is that all my colleagues flock to these expensive events and few of my colleagues attend the ones that are free and put on by volunteers. I guess to Corporate America, if I don’t pay anything, it is not worth anything. An “investment” in employee training must have a cost!
There is one thing I would like to go to the Ignite conference for. It would be a great place to view all the third party products. I would love to know what commercial products that are well tested and high quality that are available for SharePoint. I have always thought that getting a commercial tool is much better than developing it ourselves and having to test and support it. I am waiting for the magazines to compare products, but they have disappointed me in the past. Maybe that is something I should put together and post on my blog. Some Internet searching should be sufficient to pull something worthwhile together. I could make it an appendix to a third party tool recommendation for my client.
I was listening to Todd Klindt’s SharePoint-podcast available on iTunes. He has been recommending that to make a difference in your career, develop tools for a solution and not the solutions. I have to say I am in agreement. One of these days, I am going to focus on developing a set of tools for SharePoint. Todd is very entertaining.
We are in for big changes coming in Information Technology. I have been hitting the Office 2016 Preview and the BI Preview. There must be a way to make money off this!
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