Bjørn Furuknap, also known as ‘me’, is a senior solutions architect working for NittiTre in Norway. My experience comes from almost 20 years as a professional developer and IT professional. Currently I focus on SharePoint and related technologies. Enough boring stuff.

I set up my first SharePoint sites back in 2001 where the coolest thing on earth was that you could get a webpage in the Save dialog in Word. From that time I have set up countless SharePoint installations, some large and a lot of small. I only started serious development for SharePoint when version 3 hit the shelves, although I did write a fair amount of SharePoint webparts for v2 as well. I don’t know, I never liked the ASP.net 1.1 models, and even with the service pack upgrades, it was kind of awkward starting up again on a platform that was soon to be replaced.

That all changed when I started looking at WSS 3, though. I quickly dived into every piece of code I could find, read every blog article there was, dreamed SharePoint for months at a time. I got a job working as an infrastructure architect, but I couldn’t focus for more than a few minutes before my eyes drifted up to the SharePoint object model poster I had next to my desk.

At some point I had an epiphany. I woke up one morning and thought, this is going to be what I do for a long, long time. I can dedicate myself to this. I saw the beauty of the object model, I saw CAML flowing down my minds retina like the Matrix, I saw…

Well, sorry to lead you on like this, no more seeing the light speak from now on.

In any case, a few months back a colleague asked me why I didn’t go back to teaching. I always take the time to talk to people, especially developers, about my passion. I try to get them to see the same beauty I see. Even though there are some dirty spots here and there. A lot actually. But there is a lot of beauty.

Long story short, I started a blog, and lo’ and behold, people started reading. Then people started asking if I could answer this and that in this and that forum, so I did. Suddenly I had a new passion, that of writing about my passion.

So I do. I write about SharePoint. I still work with SharePoint, quite a lot actually, but I also write. And that is why this book is happening.

That’s me, folks. If you would like to know more, drop me a line, I’ll be all ears.

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