Content Management Interoperability Services

The latest news items for today are:

• Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification
  - Today, EMC, IBM and Microsoft (along with other leading ECM industry vendors Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP) have developed a specification that uses Web Services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable applications to interoperate with multiple Enterprise Content Management repositories by different vendors
• I’d wish I knew about the SPPersistedObject a bit earlier..  - You can store your own class with all types of datatypes and you are not limited to use only key/value pairs
• When your DLL needs to be in the GAC… -  good read on Code Access Security
• UK Army Job vacancy and recruitment site hosted on SharePoint

Side Note

The SharePoint community is very fortunate to have passionate community members.  Many of them are SharePoint MVPs who work around the clock in order to help give back to the community.  They do this without asking for anything in return.  They forgo countless dinners and weekends with their families just so that they can share their immense SharePoint knowledge with us.

With the sudden passing of SharePoint MVP Patrick Tisseghem, I think we all realized how important relationships are and one thing that we might not do enough is thank those individuals who help us needlessly along our journey.  I’d like to list key individuals who have helped shape my life in the past few years and thru their direct or indirect contributions to the SharePoint community made me want to get involved.   

• SharePoint MVP Eli Robillard
• SharePoint MVP Reza Alirezaei 
• Michael Gannotti
• Community Zen Master Lawrence Liu