How do you spell SharePoint?

 

Ok, this is useless trivia… In the list of SharePoint 2013 Search Result Types (Settings, Site Settings, Search section, Result Types) it looks like someone at Microsoft is not sure how to spell SharePoint! At least they did not spell it SharePint!

Oh wait… they made up for it in the next word. Everywhere in TechNet microblog has a lowercase "b"!

So, for accuracy, in my courseware should I use "Sharepoint MicroBlog", "SharePoint MicroBlog" or "SharePoint Microblog"?   Decisions, decisions, decisions… Oh the life of a tech writer…

 

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Still exam procrastinating? Second Shot is back!

 

Time for New Year's resolutions? Or just finish some of last years…

Take any Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam between January 5, 2015, and May 31, 2015. If you don't pass, get a free retake!

All of the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), and Microsoft Specialist certification exams are eligible. Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exams and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams do not qualify for this promotion.

Details here: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/second-shot.aspx

 

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Louisville SharePoint User Group Live Meeting!

 

Virtual meeting: Thursday, January 8, 2015  6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Register and find connection information here: http://www.meetup.com/Lou-SPU-Louisville-SharePoint-Users-Meetup/events/219133851/

With the unpredictable weather in January, the Louisville SharePoint User Group has decided to hold an all-virtual event.  Paul Stork, a SharePoint MVP and Microsoft Certified Master based out of the Cleveland area will be our speaker.  Since this will be our first "outside" speaker, I would love to make this a well-attended event.

Topic: Intro to Office Graph and Delve: Finding what you want before you know you need it

At the SharePoint Conference in the Spring of 2014 Microsoft announced a new Product called Project "Oslo".  Project "Oslo" is made up of two new product offerings; Office Graph and Delve. Office Graph is a new technology that uses a combination of machine learning and SharePoint search to explore the relationships between People you follow, the content they author, and the social activities they participate in.  The information revealed by Office Graph is then presented to users in a personalized interface using Delve in Office 365.  By leveraging these new technologies Delve can present you with a proactive look at content you might be interested in before you even think to search for it.  In this talk we'll demonstrate how Delve works and review the underlying architecture of Delve and Office Graph.  We'll also provide some examples of how developers can leverage Delve to create new applications or surface Office Graph content in SharePoint.

See you there! (virtually!)

 

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Just how much is PI in .Net?

 

<Silly blog article>

 

The .Net Framework includes a math library that includes a constant for PI. Just how much is PI?

The MSDN article says:

  

 

The Visual Studio debugger says:

  

The Visual Studio Autos and Locals windows say:

  

And when written from Console.WriteLine:

  

Or does it?  Reformatted with "R" WriteLine matches the value reported from the debugger.

  

and for the final test:

  

 

So who is right? According to Wikipedia the first 50 digits are 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510. Based on that number the MSDN documentation describes a more accurate number than returned by Math.PI.

 

From the .Net double documentation: here and here

• Double-precision numbers store an approximation of a real number.
• Holds signed IEEE 64-bit (8-byte) double-precision floating-point numbers
• A Double value has up to 15 decimal digits of precision, although a maximum of 17 digits is maintained internally
• When you work with floating-point numbers, remember that they do not always have a precise representation in memory.
• The documentation's examples only have 18 digits, so PI as a double should be apx 3.14159265358979324

 

In the end…

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510  Wikipedia
3.14159265358979323846   MSDN documentation for Math.PI
3.14159265358979324        What I would guess based on the documentation for doubles
3.1415926535897931          Returned in Visual Studio debugging tools
3.1415926535897931          Returned by the ToString() conversion through WriteLine formatted with "R"
3.14159265358979             Returned by the ToString() conversion through WriteLine

and just for fun… JavaScript says:
3.141592653589793

 

So…  for the important question… is the value of PI in the documentation for Math.PI wrong? 

  

 

</Silly blog article>

Now I have to get back to some real work!

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