Hi and welcome to my new blog!

Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Tom Wilson.

I have recently started my decent into the SharePoint world and this blog is going to be my chronicles of the adventure.

I have completed training from ObjectSharp in Toronto. The intructor, Microsoft MVP Rob Windsor, was very well spoken. I found the course very informative if not a little daungting. SharePoint development is everything but beautiful. It’s a treacherous journey through the marshlands of middle earth. Things get messy, you’re constantly loosing your way and you feel like  you are walking through a swap of code. In the end I prevailed and am ready to take on the beast, but I now walk with a limp

My focus in the SharePoint machine at Non~Linear is front end and branding. I will be making the look, design and functionality more tailored to our clients needs. I’m on a quest to remove the “out of box” feeling from Microsoft’s monster. I’ll be looking at solutions in many forms to achieve my goals. Silverlight, Flex and Ajax Frameworks are all runner ups to possibilities of implementing my vision. I’m a strong advocate in web standards. If there is a right way of doing something, anything less is unacceptable in a production environment.

I’m sure by now you can tell I’m no writer. My path to my current place in this industry is anything but conventional. It’s been a wild ride and I truly believe my unique experiences will come into play everyday in trying to reach my goal.

So everybody, hold onto your hat, remember that above everything we are here to have fun and learn!

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