Doing some development work

Recently, I’ve doing some development work instead of my more normal systems administration work. I’ve always done VBScript scripting of administration tasks, started fooling with PowerShell, and have always been messing around with websites but I’ve been going past that, recently. I’ve had a couple of things I’ve been working on:

• Creating custom “look and feel” to SharePoint sites
• Creating web parts for SharePoint sites
• Creating a C# web application for linking an outsourced CRM system to Groove
• Creating a C# console application to read three different calendars and then create a survey questionnaire based on information inside the meeting

It has been a real challenge I’m going to try and write some posts based on what I learned. For those of you with real developer experience, you will probably laugh over some of the things I had trouble with. Hopefully, if there is any other sysadmin that needs to do some quick prototype code, they can benefit from my experiments.