SharePoint and Web Development Instructor

Spike Xavier

Web Development, C#,CSS, SharePoint - Installation, administration and development. Spike is truly passionate about technology and loves working with people new to the industry.

Biography

MCITP: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator. MCTS: SharePoint 2010 Configuration, MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCDST: Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician, MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional, A+, A+ - IT Technician, Network+. ASP Insiders Group
Spike has been involved in technology for over 15 years. He started in the early days of e-commerce running the order processing and credit card authorizations for one of the largest gift companies in the world. He charted off into his own waters in 1995 by starting a company of his own which would become merch.com.  Merch.com grew from his bedroom into one of the largest on line e-commerce merchandisers in the world.  Serving as the official online store for such acts as: No Doubt, the Offspring, Social Distortion, Nine Inch Nails, Tony Hawk, Pink, Pennywise and many others.  It was during this time that Spike fell in love with web design and development. 
Spike is the Technical Editor for:

Spike wrote the cover article for  ASP.NET Pro magazine entitled "Master Your Domain" which was an article outlining step by step the process of using CSS for laying out Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0.

Twitter @staticvoidmain

Amazing article just released on #html5 http://t.co/i4IaRKRG

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@palermo4 GREAT #html5 POST!

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@palermo4 , amazing blog #html5 real world vs academic http://t.co/WDgvNHBC

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I'm very excited to be presenting at the upcoming #sharepoint user group meeting (feb!) http://t.co/knYLgQRV

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@miguelwood I think it's time for a @miguelwood night at the azsharepoint pros user group!!

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Blog

The top 5 things I like about PowerShell V3 ISE

Posted February 3, 2012

(note-this article is based on PowerShell V3 CTP2) Of all the new features in PowerShell that I have been looking forward too, this was not one of them. It’s not that I don’t like the ISE, its great for quick … Continue reading →

Building the Account at a Glance HTML5 jQuery Application by Dan Wahlin

Posted February 2, 2012

As Web technologies continue to evolve developers are required to learn new technologies in order to build successful web-based applications that stand above the crowd. This can be a challenging proposition especially for developers moving from desktop or Rich Internet … Continue reading →

Cisco Subnetting – Folding the Paper

Posted January 24, 2012

My goal is to create folders. Now you might think this is a non-networker topic since folder creation might be better suited to a disk and file management venue. However, when I say I am creating folders, I am referring … Continue reading →