Office Zealot Podcast

We love Access! This pod cast is dedicated to discussing Access through the eyes of long-time database veteran, guru and magician Luke Chung. Luke is the president of FMS Inc with a long history of developing awesome Access developer tools.

You can download the Pod Cast directly: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format.

Useful Resources:

• FMS Web site http://www.fmsinc.com/
• Database Normalization Tips http://www.fmsinc.com/tpapers/genaccess/databasenorm.html
• Access 10 Year Interview with Luke http://www.microsoft.com/Office/previous/access/10years/chung.asp/

BIO:

Luke Chung is the president and founder of FMS, a privately held software development firm located in Vienna, Virginia. Celebrating its 19th year in business, FMS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and the world's leading 3rd party developer of products for Microsoft Access.

FMS also offers products for the .NET, SQL Server and Visual Basic communities, with over 50,000 customers in over 100 countries. For individual clients, FMS can provide custom software solutions. FMS has won over 40 industry awards, and was recently included in the SD Times 100 as the 100 most innovative software companies.

Luke has directed the company's product development and consulting services efforts as the database industry evolved. In addition to being a primary author and designer of many FMS commercial products, Luke has personally provided consulting services to a wide range of clients. A recognized database expert and highly regarded authority in the Microsoft Access developer community, Luke was featured by Microsoft as an "Access Hero" during Access' 10 year anniversary celebration.

Luke is a popular speaker at conferences in the US and Europe, and has published many articles in industry magazines. He was a former president of the Washington, DC chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO), and a graduate of Harvard University with Bachelor and Master Degrees in Engineering and Applied Sciences.

On this OfficeZealot.com pod cast we interview SharePoint guru and MVP Jan Tielens. Jan consults, trains and develops on the SharePoint platform. Jan has also led a number of community efforts to extend SharePoint. This includes SmartParts and Workflow Lite for SharePoint.

In this show we talk about what SharePoint is, how to develop for SharePoint and a number of tips and tricks.

You can download the Pod Cast directly: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format.

Useful Resources:

• Jan's blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/
• Smart Part: http://www.smartpart.info
• Workflow Lite: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?ID=C07F64E8-8229-49A1-B160-B24C89122894
• Patrick Tisseghem's blog: http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/
• Maxim Karpov's blog: http://ipattern.com/simpleblog/
• Custom Policy File: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2005/06/23/414699.aspx
• CAML Builder: http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/archive/2005/03/28/1617.aspx
• Mike Fitzmaurice blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikefitz/
• SharePoint Explorer: http://www.ontolica.com/
• TabletPC Show: http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/tabletpc/

Jan's Bio:
Jan Tielens is consultant and trainer at U2U and is specialized in Microsoft Information Worker technologies. He is active in various .NET related communities, both on- and offline. You might know him from reading one of his articles for the MSDN Belux site or .NET Magazine.  Jan is also a well-known blogger in the field of SharePoint and BizTalk Server 2004 and has become famous with his work on the technique of the Smart Part and his Workflow Lite product. Recently Jan has become a SharePoint Portal Server MVP.

John Peltonen is a leading expert on Microsoft technologies with a strong speciality in the Microsoft Office System. John works for 3Sharp which is a Microsoft Partner that helps customers to solve business problems with Microsoft Technology.

In this interview, we talk to John about two cool samples that 3Sharp built for Microsoft, namely Fabrikam 3.0 and Generico. Each of these samples are smart client solutions built on top of Microsoft Office 2003, SharePoint and .NET. Basically these samples have many goals, first they show the power of the new technology and also how to work with the technology. All the source code is provided along with extensive documentation.

You can download the Pod Cast directly: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format.

Additional Resources:

• Fabrikam Sample Solution
• Generico Sample Solution
• 3Sharp Blogs
• FMS - Access, SQL Server, .NET developer tools

John's Bio:
John is the vice president of development and a founding partner of 3Sharp.  John got started in the industry as a web developer, moved to the DBA and database architect roles before moving to Veritas as a glorified Product Manager and finally “settling down” and starting 3Sharp.  3Sharp is a consulting firm located in Redmond, WA focused on helping companies implement and build technology solutions for their behind-the-firewall business processes.  They spend a great deal of their time developing solutions for Office which is where they find many company’s business processes hiding.

The OfficeZealot crew interviews Brian Jones of Office 12 XML fame. Brian gives us the inside track on all the exciting new XML capabilities of Office 12.

You can download the Pod Cast directly: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format.

Further details:
Brian Jones is a program manager who has been working on the XML functionality in Office for the past 5 years. For Office 2003, he worked on the WordprocessingML schema as well as support for customer defined schemas in Word. Recently, Brian has worked on the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats that will be introduced in Office 12.  Brian also recently decided to start sharing more information on the design of these new formats with the Office community by starting a personal blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones

The fourth OfficeZealot.com podcast is with John Durant of Microsoft Corporation. John recently moved from MSDN to the Visual Studio Tools for Office team. In this podcast Chris Kunicki interviews John about the new Oultook add-in support for Visual Studio Tools for Office version 2005 which was recently announced at TechEd in Orlando.

What exactly does the Outlook add-in support? What problems does it solve? Why is it needed? These questions and more are answered in this podcast.

You can download the Pod Cast directly: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format.

Links from this show:

• Sue Mosher's OutlookCode.com
• John Durant's Blog
• MSDN Articles related to VSTO 2005 Outlook development
• Add-In Express

Finally, don’t forget you don’t need an iPod to listen to this show. Just a standard MP3 player like Windows Media Player, iTunes, WinAmp, etc, you get the picture.