Check it out – my latest Video Diary post regarding my Setfocus Sharepoint class:

Hi, this is David Wier.  Welcome back to my SetFocus SharePoint video diary. 

Features and solutions and customization, oh my.  Taking a little bit from the Wizard of Oz there, of course.  But this was a week that really showed me a lot.  It not only showed me the basics of features and solutions, but it told me that I was just now scratching the surface of what was to come.  And in Saturday, during my all-day class, I got a FedEx delivery of four more books on MOSS which we really haven’t started learning specifically yet.  We’ve handed it out.  We’ve said this is available but we haven’t started learning specifics there.  When I was first learning HTML on ASP, I coded everything by hand with notepad.  That way, I actually learned what was going on before using a code generator.  We did the same thing when starting SharePoint development and the environment, though, was totally different from the early days of HTML on ASP with XML being so case-sensitive and so forth.  And it was really a big chore.

That being said, I am glad that we did it because it gives us a better understanding of what’s really going on under the covers and I know it’s going to help me in the future based on my past experience.  Thank goodness, though, that there are tools that make the development much easier