Feb. 1st and 2nd 2005 on our local Developer Days, Jan (who has a great new posting on how to make Webparts available throughout your site by modifying the site definition btw) and I will be presenting a two-part session on 'Hardcore Development with SharePoint'. We have a lot of great ideas ourselves but we would like to know which ones are important for the SharePoint community in Belgium but also abroad since the presentation will be made available online and we will have new papers and demo-code accompanying the session.

Here are the topics we are thinking about:

  1. Developing Webparts the smart way
  2. Extending SharePoint Portal Search
  3. Building SharePoint Application Blocks (SAPs :-))
  4. Unlocking SharePoint Content via IBF
  5. End-to-End WorkFlow Solutions using SharePoint/InfoPath/BizTalk
  6. Extending the Notification Channels in the Portal with Messenger Alerts and SQL Server Notification Services
  7. Build Site Definitions from Scratch - Deep into CAML
  8. Techniques to Attach your Code to Lists
  9. Reporting using the SQL Server Reporting Services WebParts

Since Jan and I like challenges, we would like to hear about other topics that may sound interesting in this context. Let us know!