San Francisco, CA — October 18, 2011.

InnerWorkings announced a major addition to its Learning Platform today with the release of self-paced SharePoint 2010 training for professional developers and software teams.

Working in partnership with the USPJ Academy, InnerWorkings is offering world class SharePoint learning solutions to its customers. USPJA boasts a team of industry renowned SharePoint experts whose approach emphasizes the real-world aspects of learning SharePoint — a perfect fit with the InnerWorkings methodology.

InnerWorkings confirmed the immediate release of three SharePoint courses to its Learning Platform, covering the following topics:

• Beginning SharePoint Development
• SharePoint Data View Web Part Basics
• SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow

Additional SharePoint courses are in development and will be released on a quarterly basis. All of the SharePoint courses include video-based instruction from USPJA experts, hand-picked e-books, and a virtual lab environment to practice important configuration tasks. In addition, a Live Guide feature connects developers and in-house SharePoint experts to facilitate ongoing support and grading of assignments.

“With over 100M users and $1B in revenue for Microsoft, SharePoint is the understated giant of Microsoft’s enterprise collaboration strategy”, said Francis McKeagney, InnerWorkings CEO. “As a server-based technology, SharePoint presents significant challenges to organizations wishing to provide deep, hands-on training to their software teams. We are really excited that our new offering addresses this issue in a rigorous and compelling way. The virtual lab capability, in particular, allows for deep learning in both generic and customizable setups. We are delighted to partner with USPJA to deliver such a comprehensive enterprise learning solution for SharePoint development teams. USPJA’s knowledge and expertise has made this offering possible.”

“The market for SharePoint developers has never been hotter”, said Bjørn Furuknap, USPJA CEO. “We’ve always been extremely confident in the depth and quality of our SharePoint learning solutions, but this partnership with InnerWorkings brings tremendous scale and reach to our efforts. Coupling the technical strength of our training with the online learning expertise and global audience of InnerWorkings is a winning combination. We are delighted to partner with InnerWorkings to offer our combined SharePoint learning services to a huge audience of SharePoint developers and teams hungry to succeed in their chosen area of domain expertise.”

About InnerWorkings
At InnerWorkings, our mission is to help our customers build great software organizations. We believe that it is possible to create a successful, efficient, and cost-effective software organization and sustain it over multiple projects. How do we do this? By providing software executives with an integrated platform to improve learning, collaboration, and software processes across your development teams. The company’s R&D facility is based in Dublin, Ireland and InnerWorkings maintains its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California. For more information about InnerWorkings and its services, visit www.innerworkings.com.

We all want to measure our code metrics and gain insight that can be acted upon, right? Software development, like most engineering disciplines, is more than a little obsessed with tracking code metrics.

Do you obsess about metrics like bugs counts, lines of code, code coverage, and cyclomatic complexity? Well, this article by Andrew Binstock may give you some heart. Andrew makes the point that most code metrics used today are deeply flawed and broadly misused.

His article titled The Dismal Science of Code Metrics lays out an argument that metrics are only useful if you’re really clear about what numbers to measure and use consistent quantitative measurement tools as part of the process.

He also contends that many tools to measure defect counts are too closely linked to file size — as the application increases in size, so too does the associated defect count almost by default.

In the final analysis, Andrew recommends using “metrics that are straightforward, easy to understand, and that you can track easily”. That seems pretty obvious, but you’d be amazed by how many companies fail to follow this simple piece of advice when tracking code metrics.

Much has been said about the impact of HTML5 on web application development. In our most recent roadmap survey with InnerWorkings customers, HTML5 topped the list of requested training by a substantial margin.

You’ve spoken and we’ve listened. As a result, we’ve just released a comprehensive Learning Program on building HTML5 based web applications for .NET developers.

HTML5 is packed with rich features that your developers can take advantage of when building out their web apps.

Our developer training covers the following aspects of web development with HTML5:

• HTML5 elements and attributes
• graph display using JavaScript
• the canvas element
• browser history manipulation
• video and audio elements
• local and session storage
• running a Web application offline
• adapting a Web application to mobile devices

We’re excited about this new addition to our .NET training catalog.

If you’re interested in accessing our HTML5 training for your .NET team, please contact us with details of your .NET team’s learning needs. Happy coding.