Blogs - kirke


Water Cooler Interview with Jeff Becraft from AT&T[MP4] [0:10:22] [2009/11/18]
Host Kirk Evans talks with Jeff Becraft from AT&T Hosting & Application Services about the hosting services that AT&T provides, why customers should take a serious look at hosting in…


Water Cooler Interview with Tom Rizzo[MP4] [0:13:20] [2009/10/21]
Kirk Evans interviews Tom Rizzo, Senior Director for SharePoint. In this interview, we discuss some of the announcements that were made in the keynote, developer tools, options for hosting on…


Water Cooler Interview with Arpan Shah[MP4] [0:12:37] [2009/10/21]
Host Kirk Evans talks with Arpan Shah, Director for SharePoint at Microsoft. In this interview, we discuss a bit of web content management and using SharePoint 2010 for public facing internet sites.…


Water Cooler Interview with Tom Resing on the BDC[MP4] [0:12:12] [2009/10/15]
Host Kirk Evans talks with Tom Resing about using the Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007. Tom has been doing some very interesting work with the BDC, including surfacing geocoded data through…


Water Cooler Interview with Jeff Deverter from Rackspace[MP4] [0:06:12] [2009/10/15]
Host Kirk Evans talks with Rackspace SharePoint Architect Jeff Deverter. I had my first experience with Rackspace seeking a quote for hosting a SharePoint solution, and I was blown away by their…


Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps[MP4] [0:18:37] [2009/10/15]
Host Kirk Evans talks with the SharePoint Cowboy, SharePoint MVP Eric Shupps. In this interview, Eric discusses the use of SharePoint as an application platform and we discuss the use of TDD within…


Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young[MP4] [0:11:26] [2009/08/13]
Join us at The Water Cooler as host Kirk Evans interviews SharePoint MVP Shane Young. In this episode, we learn about the choices admins make when installing SharePoint, we hear several tips on…


Water Cooler Interview with Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz[MP4] [0:13:59] [2009/08/03]
In our first episode of The Water Cooler show, host Kirk Evans interviews Doug Ware and Brendon Schwartz. We discuss the question, "Does every SharePoint installation require a…


Water Cooler Demo - SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations[MP4] [0:20:31] [2009/07/29]
Our first episode of The Water Cooler Demo show, the show focused on all things Office related. In this episode, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a SharePoint state machine workflow using…


SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Afternoon[MP4] [0:07:53] [2009/07/26]
Come take a peek as we wrap up the day at SharePoint Saturday Dallas, and check out the activity on Twitter at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spsdallas.


SharePoint Saturday Dallas - The Morning[MP4] [0:07:05] [2009/07/26]
Come take a peek at some of the morning activity at SharePoint Saturday Dallas, and follow the activity on Twitter in real time at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spsdallas.


SharePoint and Enterprise Social Computing - NewsGator Social Sites[MP4] [0:26:25] [2009/07/02]
Kirk Evans talks with Brian Kellner, VP of Products for NewsGator Technologies, about the capabilities of Social Sites. Social Sites is an enterprise social computing platform built upon…


SharePoint for Developers Part 6 - Custom web services[MP4] [0:19:54] [2009/04/30]
Kirk Evans shows how to create a custom ASMX web service hosted in SharePoint that enables query, insert, and delete of specific lists in a SharePoint site. You will also see how to use the…


SharePoint for Developers Part 5 - Custom content types, fields, and lists[MP4] [0:18:03] [2009/04/29]
Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a list instance, custom field type, custom content type, and lists based off those assets. We will prepopulate lists with data, and use a feature receiver to…


SharePoint for Developers Part 4 - Calling SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight[MP4] [0:08:13] [2009/04/29]
In this session, Kirk Evans will demonstrate how to call SharePoint's web services from a Silverlight client. We will use SharePoint's Lists web service, and will show how to use databinding in…


SharePoint for Developers Part 3 - Expression Blend and Silverlight[MP4] [0:15:15] [2009/04/29]
SharePoint developers will likely use a variety of tools to build solutions. In this screencast, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 2 to create a Silverlight application from…


SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features[MP4] [0:28:05] [2009/03/25]
Kirk Evans shows how to use Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 to create a SharePoint feature that exposes list items as JSON data.


SharePoint for Developers Part 1: Introducing VSeWSS 1.3[MP4] [0:14:21] [2009/03/14]
Kirk Evans demonstrates the new features of Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) 1.3 February 2009 CTP. We focus on the deployment aspects of SharePoint development…


Customizing SharePoint Themes with SharePoint Designer 2007 and IE8[MP4] [0:12:20] [2009/03/10]
In this tutorial, Kirk Evans shows how to quickly customize a theme for a SharePoint site using SharePoint Designer 2007 and the IE8 Developer Tools. Visit the accompanying blog article for this…


William Oellermann on the Managed Services Engine[MP4] [2008/08/10]
Kirk Evans talks with William Oellermann about the Managed Services Engine (MSE). MSE is a solution built by Microsoft's SOA Solutions Team that facilitates enterprise SOA through service…


Looking at Blackpoint with Shaun and Sebastian from K2[MP4] [0:16:52] [2008/08/08]
Kirk Evans talks with Shaun Leisegang and Sebastian Garrioch from K2 to learn more about K2 Blackpoint. Blackpoint is a tool built upon Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Presentation …


Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna[MP4] [0:28:14] [2008/08/01]
Kirk Evans interviews Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna from Microsoft Consulting Services about a new offering called Service Oriented Modeling (SOM). This demo blew me away as it clearly demonstrates the…


The Future of Telecommunications and Media with Cognizant[MP4] [0:25:34] [2008/07/01]
Kirk Evans talks with Stephen Fleece and Ramesh Shanmugam from Cognizant. We discuss the work that Cognizant did with TMForum and the Content Encounter Catalyst project, showing how to deliver…


Bringing Web Services and IMS Together with Abdi Modaressi of AT&T[MP4] [0:10:52] [2008/07/01]
In this epsiode of Communicating, Kirk Evans takes a break from interviewing and films while Eric Troup talks with Abdi Modaressi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. Eric and Abdi…


Joe DeCarlo on The Microsoft Certified Architect Program[MP4] [0:18:03] [2008/06/30]
Kirk Evans talks with Joe DeCarlo, Architect at Turner Broadcasting and a Microsoft Certified Architect. Joe recently sat on the other side of the MCA process, participating in a review board for…


Production at Disney Studios with Bill Sarine[MP4] [0:08:38] [2008/06/17]
Kirk Evans talks with Bill Sarine, Director of Production and Business Operations, Disney Studios. Bill has worked on a number of big budget feature films like the Pirates of the Caribbean series,…


How Movies and Games are Made With Motion Capture at Motus - Part 2[MP4] [0:29:31] [2008/06/16]
Kirk Evans talks with Motus Digital. Motus is a motion capture studio in Plano, Texas. In Motion Capture with Motus - Part 1, we learned about the infrared cameras and how the raw data is…


How Movies and Games are Made With Motion Capture at Motus - Part 1[MP4] [0:22:20] [2008/06/16]
Kirk Evans talks with Motus Digital. Motus is a motion capture studio in Plano, Texas. We get to see just how motion capture animations are created and learn about the technology behind motion…


Business Intelligence and The Future of Telecommunications with Rob Wilson[MP4] [0:27:23] [2008/06/14]
Kirk Evans talks with Rob Wilson, Account Architect with Microsoft's Communications Sector. Rob gets to work with some very interesting projects and opportunities that drive the technologies that you…


How the Hit Show "Family Guy" is Made with Spencer Laudiero[MP4] [0:08:19] [2008/06/14]
Kirk Evans talks with Spencer Laudiero, Storyboard Artist on the hit TV show "Family Guy". Spencer talks about the process of making the show, the number of people involved, and how the…


WCF at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta[MP4] [0:05:03] [2008/06/12]
Kirk Evans talks with Hongwei Yan at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta about what Turner is doing with WCF and WS-Security. Hongwei is an Architect who has been working with WCF for about the past 3…


Trends in the Media Industry with Brian O'Neil[MP4] [0:05:03] [2008/06/11]
Kirk Evans talks with Brian O'Neil, Solutions Architect at Turner Broadcasting. In this episode, Brian talks about the challenges that the media industry faces with storage and metadata, migrating…