Mart Muller's Weblog

Just like two years ago, Tam Tam has again released the (almost) famous European Championship Soccer web parts!

This release, for both SharePoint 2003 and 2007, is again free of charge! Of course, you have to register to create your pool and keep track of the results and scores.

The game consists of two web parts which are easy to install and to configure. The web parts collect the match and result information from a web service hosted by Tam Tam. A short overview of the game:

• Two web parts which are easy to install and to configure.
• Overview of the next 10 matches.
• Overview of all the Euro 2008 matches.
• A leader board of all users. A top 15 of users with the highest points and of course the points of the current user.
• Watch the details of a participating country with all the matches.
• The web parts can be displayed in English and Dutch (and other languages).
• The end results of matches are hosted and administered by Tam Tam. You do not have to do anything to update scores.

Check out the download site (also available in English).

Due to personal circumstances I have to skip the SharePoint Conference 2008 next week :(. Too bad because it seems that it will be a great event with many interesting people going there.

Anyway, two colleagues will be there to make sure Tam Tam doesn't miss anything interesting. They brought the MOSS 2007 personalized tagging and rating solution on VPC so I've you're there and interested please drop me a line and I'll forward it to them. I've had many questions about how it will be put on the market. The two guys who created it will licence it as a product and prices will be available soon, I will keep you posted on this blog. In my opinion it would have been great if they put it on codeplex or made it part of the Community Kit for SharePoint, but I am curious how this will go!

For the Dutch readers and conference visitors, Pascal Lagarde and Wouter Geurtzen (my colleagues) will present one of our enterprise search cases (Twynstra en Gudde) on Monday at the session MS Netherlands has planned. There will be time for you to give them your opinion about it. You can also drop me a line if you like of course.

For the other conference visitors, check out the Sharepint By Night evening at the Kells Irish Pub in Seattle on Wednesday. This will interesting and fun I guess! Many interesting people (MVP's, community people, etc) will have pint and chat about.. well SharePoint duh!

And, last but not least, Lawrence Liu will host the SharePoint User Groups Site meeting on Monday. This seems to be interesting for the DIWUG members.

Of course, I'm very curious about how it will be and I know there will be interesting sessions for everyone. So, have fun next week, and I will keep an eye on the SPC2008 blog postings!

We all know that front end development for SharePoint requires a lot of expertise of both SharePoint and HTML/CSS. I was very happy that since a few months we have people working here dedicated on this area. And we need more of them (don't hesitate to check out our job offerings)! :)

Anyway, during the years we've used Heather Solomon's blog a lot during our projects, which was very useful. So, I'm glad to announce my colleague Diantha is blogging now on SharePoint front-end as well! I'm looking forward to more of her postings!

Check out our new vacancy site and get a virtual introduction to Tam Tam!

It's in Dutch but I think you can find your way anyway :) Enjoy!

Thursday November 29th, the next Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) event will take place at Tam Tam in Rijswijk. This time MOSS WCM and accessibility will have focus and it has all the ingredients for an interesting evening.

The sessions (Dutch):

17:30-18:30 Diner

18:30-19:00 Introductie

19:00–19:45 Webrichtlijnen, wat en waarom!
Bij het implementeren van websites wordt er steeds meer nadruk gelegd op toegankelijkheid, standaarden en webrichtlijnen. Termen als W3C, Drempelsvrij, XHTML en WCAG 1.0, prioriteit 1 en 2 doen de ronde, zeker als de overheid hier een rol in speelt. Na deze sessie zal het duidelijk moeten zijn wat deze richtlijnen precies inhouden en hoe ze toegepast moeten worden.

20:00–20:45 MOSS en webrichtlijnen
Waldek Mastykarz van Imtech houdt zich onder andere bezig met het bouwen van MOSS WCM sites volgens webrichtlijnen opgesteld door de overheid. Er is veel discussie, ook buiten Nederland, over het wel of niet geschikt zijn van MOSS voor het implementeren volgens deze standaarden. Waldek zal demonstreren tegen welke problemen je aanloopt in MOSS en hoe deze kunnen worden omzeild.

21:00–21:30 Gathering, drinks and food

Sign up here for the sessions (free).

Check out more details on the website.