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I’ve just been taking a look to see who’s following me on Twitter, and it seems that I’ve picked up a handful of SharePoint developers along the way. No doubt this stems from the fact that two of my most popular blog entries are SharePoint posts, almost entirely due to the fact that they feature rather prominently in various Google searches of a SharePointesque nature. It makes me wonder if I’ve unwittingly picked up a bit of a reputation as something of a B-list SharePoint guru.

Well I’m sorry to disappoint you folks, but I’m not one.

Those particular blog entries were actually my initial impressions of the first, and so far the only, SharePoint project I have ever worked on. I had only the vaguest idea of what I was doing and most of my SharePoint efforts at the time were firmly in the “cargo cult” category, as they generally are when you’re plunged in at the deep end with a new, unfamiliar and complex technology, no training, and a tight deadline. Furthermore, neither of them were intended as knowledge base type articles, but as rants — one of them about insanely over-complicated functionality and the other about an idiotic MSDN knowledge base article that didn’t work.

Now I have no idea what effect this post is going to have on my Feedburner subscriptions and Twitter following. If you fall into that category you’re more than welcome to stick around of course, but I just don’t have anything more to say on the subject. I think my SharePoint skills advanced beyond the cargo cult stage as the project progressed, but since I have not been developing for that particular platform for nearly a year now, I am no longer blogging about it either.

Posted at 22:59 on 30 May 2009.
Tagged: SharePoint