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	Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites
	There's a great article that Andrew Connell recently published that's worth a read, if you touching SharePoint currently or will be in the near future. The article, Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites, addresses some common things you should keep in mind in planning, architecting, designing and implementing your Publishing sites. Here's a summary on what the article is all about: In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has taken the best... Posted By: Murray Gordon \| 10/13/2008 1:09 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	SharePoint scores with Web developers!
	I read a great article on SharePoint at the Software Development Times on the Web (SDTimes) website. There were some great quotes. I thought Paul Andrew from the SharePoint Product Team gave a great perspective on SharePoint, where's it's been and where it's going. It's worth a read. Here's a couple quotes I really liked: Microsoft's Paul Andrew said the company had not anticipated SharePoint’s popularity in the development community. “When [SharePoint] first came out, things were not scaled... Posted By: Murray Gordon \| 10/13/2008 1:00 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	New downloads available at the MSSharePointDeveloper site
	Great new downloads for SharePoint developers at the MSSharePointDeveloper site. MSSharePointDeveloper site or "introduction to SharePoint Development site" has been around for a few months now. It's a great resources for developers that are looking to get into SharePoint development. Here's the new stuff you can find there. The VM's have been updated to Visual Studio 2008, which is awesome! Downloadable WSS Dev VPC Image Updated to Visual Studio 2008 (previously Visual Studio 2005).... Posted By: Murray Gordon \| 10/13/2008 12:41 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	SharePoint Sessions at PDC
	PDC 2008 is right around the corner. If you've taken a look at the session list, you will be psyched to see that there are some great SharePoint sessions. Here's the list of sessions that Paul Andrew, Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform, posted. There are four awesome SharePoint sessions that will be key to hit when you are there: SharePoint Online: Extending your Service by Troy Hopwood SharePoint 2007: Advanced Async Workflow Messaging FAST: Building Search-Driven... Posted By: Murray Gordon \| 10/13/2008 12:14 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Go Vikings
	This weekend sure was busy. Friday night, we had the Twin Cities Code Camp V pre-party, and then a trip to a bar downtown... I think I got home around 3am. Saturday, My XNA talk at Twin Cities Code Camp V went really well and then we had the after party at Joe Sensor's, followed by a trip to the Casino later that evening, and then a late night poker tournament at Jason Bock's house after that. Sunday morning (today) a bunch of us met up at IHOP for breakfast and then went to the Vikings... Posted By: Chris Williams \| \| 10/12/2008 7:48 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group Meeting
	In the Baton Rouge Area with as open Tuesday afternoon? Check out the SQL Server Users Group Meeting this week. Location: At Lamar Advertising Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:45 PM - 8:00 PM Sponsored By: FuelTrac Presenter: Mike Huguet BIO Mike is an Enterprise Solutions Architect for Sparkhound, Inc. with over 9 years of experience in developing business solutions for Enterprise, Mid-market, and governmental customers. Five of those years have been as a consultant... Posted By: Stacy Vicknair \| 10/12/2008 7:43 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Silverlight Cream for October 12, 2008 -- #394
	In this issue: Tim Heuer, Silverlight SDK, Page Brooks, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, and Bill Reiss Bill Reiss has updated his XNA games to the XNA 3.0 Beta, and has created a PDC badge: Find me at PDC for a Dr. Popper badge and maybe win a book. From SilverlightCream.com: Hey, who took my Chiron? Responding to a question, Tim Heuer discusses what happened to Chiron.exe in the RC0 delivery (and beyond, I suppose). Silverlight Breaking Changes Between Beta 2 and Release (Updated Document) The... Posted By: Dave Campbell \| \| 10/12/2008 2:37 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	All That Money You've Lost - Where Did It Go?
	It has been a wild week, hearing the gloom and doom on Wall Street with the credit crisis. All That Money You've Lost - Where Did It Go? I found this article to be helpful. Realistically, all that "gain" or "loss" that we see in the market, whether the stock market or the housing market, is all on paper. It only makes a difference if you are looking to buy or sell soon. Otherwise, you just keep the asset, whether on paper (stocks) or the real asset of your house, until later. And most likely... Posted By: Scott Miller \| 10/12/2008 2:29 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Virtualization and XNA Development
	I have, for quite a while now, used virtualization technology for all of my development. Multiple versions of installed tools, beta development kits and specialized setups have made the maintenance of a single machine too complex to support everything needed for every project. It has been much easier to create a virtual machine for a project, install whatever is needed, work on it, and tear it down at the end. If an installation fails, or if CTP software has destabilized an operating system. then... Posted By: Jeff Ferguson \| 10/12/2008 9:23 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Development under claims based identity
	We implemented Web SSO with ADFS. It works great, but the development experience was limited to W2K3. This was a problem as development workstations were XP. So we had 1 server on the side to test code against. We pulled down the dll to the XP development boxes which allowed for compilation, but testing only on the W2K3 server. A new framework for claims based identity is in beta from Microsoft. It is code named Zermatt. One of the interesting things from the developers perspective is that... Posted By: Ken \| 10/12/2008 8:53 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Microsoft SQL Server Strategy: Getting the Costs Right.
	For the next few weeks I'm going to be turning my attentions to Microsoft SQL Server as the new version, 2008 is now with us and even has it's first big patch CU1. I am however not going to focus on coding as plenty of others on GWB have that sufficiently covered. It is fair to say that SQL Server has turned into a monster, it's far more than just a database product these days, it is a complete data management suit of tools. Some of the tools are fully fledged complex products in their own right... Posted By: Dave Oliver \| 10/12/2008 12:31 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Tulsa Techfest 2008 - Developing Service Oriented Applications Using Windows Communication Foundation Slide Deck
	Below are the slides I used during the presentation I gave at Tulsa Techfest 2008. There were many people at this presentation. It was a great time! I will be posting all the demos here shortly. Tulsa Tech Fest2008 Service Oriented Development With Windows Communication Foundation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tulsa tech)... Posted By: okcodemonkey \| 10/12/2008 12:34 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Tulsa Techfest 2008 - Creating A Voice User Interface With Microsoft Speech Server 2007 Slide Deck.
	Below are some links to the slide deck I used during my presentation at Tulsa Techfest 2008. The presentation went real well and was a lot of fun. It was awesome to teach people about Speech Application Development that have not been exposed to it in the past. Speech development is something I am passionate about, but have been out of it as far as professionally developing on it with my day job. Enjoy! I will be posting the demos for the presentation here later. Tulsa Techfest... Posted By: okcodemonkey \| 10/12/2008 12:24 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Silverlight Cream for October 11, 2008 -- #393
	In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Dave Relyea, Manish Dalal, Karl Shifflett, Terence Tsang, David Anson has been busy with his updates and reports: Just a little too eager with the clicking... [Updated binaries and source for MouseButtonClicker]. Corey Schuman posted about an Update for his Video Slider Karl Shifflett has a Cool Usage Tip For XAML Power Toys Adam Kinney has a blog post and set of demo videos on the WPF Effects and Transitions Library Applied Laurence Moroney reports... Posted By: Dave Campbell \| \| 10/11/2008 10:04 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	In Search For Agile Domain Driven Design … Hopefully Part 1 of N
	The Useless Introduction You Used To :) This post has taken so long to be started in writing. I’ve been busy with many events in my life lately. Suffering from frequent limited internet access lately, and, all this moving between companies thing has been eating me. And yes, I admit, I' have been as tired and more honestly lazy as you expected me to be! Hey, there’s a little warning. This post is not exactly for my usual audience. I’m sorry, but introducing Domain Driven Design is not one of the... Posted By: Mohamed Ahmed Meligy \| 10/12/2008 7:00 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Live from TCCC
	Sitting here at TCCC I decided, why not blog it up for a few minutes? I had my presentation this morning and it was OK, I should have the slides and other info up in the next week for anyone interested. So far I've listen to talks about BizTalk and XNA (both by fellow GWB's). Next is Silverlight followed by some ASP .Net stuff. I might have to stop going to Chris's XNA talks, I always want to start creating games after seeing them... Posted By: Matt Christian \| 10/11/2008 1:51 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Xbox 3 flashing red lights... Again!
	My son informed me yesterday that we have the notorious 3 flashing red lights on our Xbox 360. This is the third time in three years that we've had this problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907534 I called Xbox support, initiated a repair order, and will be waiting another month before my son can play it again. I'm amazed by the lack of quality hardware in the Xbox. Fortunately they keep repairng it at no cost to me, but I'm getting tired of annual repairs... Posted By: Eric Johnson \| 10/11/2008 5:29 AM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Free SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities
	Free SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities Link: http://www.codeplex.com/SPDActivities/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Available%20Activities These are add-ons for Office SharePoint Designer and are used in building up Workflows for SharePoint sites. I will be making use of Copy List Item Extended Activity in one of my blogs. This activity lets the user copy items from one site to another (from a subsite to another subsite in the same site). Other activities include: sending attachment... Posted By: Steffi \| 10/10/2008 10:12 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Check the New Flashy Style
	Now with more reflective imagey goodness! The new theme is a work in progress. I am porting Carl Mason's SummerFruit theme for Wordpress. I've got most of the major stuff, I just need to get the comments and contact form styled. ~Lee... Posted By: Lee Brandt \| 10/11/2008 2:41 AM \| 1 Comments \| \| \|

	Should we go for Windows Vista, or not? [Pros and Cons]
	Windows Vista: Pros and Cons I just bought a laptop which has Windows Vista. Since I wasn’t sure if it’s feasible to keep it with this Operating System, I researched to see the advantages and disadvantages of Vista. Here is what I gathered out of personal use and research What I love about Windows Vista: · The increased security, although you can also get this by having Service Pack 3 on Windows XP · The new looks, which in my opinion are way better than those of Windows... Posted By: Steffi \| 10/10/2008 5:55 PM \| 4 Comments \| \| \|

	yellow screen of death
	This is for all those yellow moments.... Issue #1... Posted By: Salman Ahmed \| 10/10/2008 3:38 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	Dell PowerEdge Upgrade To Windows Server 2008
	I learned a few things the hard way and thought I'd pass them along in case it helps someone else. I bought a PowerEdge 2900 last winter planning on consolidating my five machines onto a single virtualized server. The PE 2900 has a pair of quad Xeons, supports up to 48 GB of RAM and 10 SCSI/SATA drives. Plenty of room for growth to support Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Doing my homework, I downloaded and burned the System Management Tools v. 5.5.0, A00 (5.4+ needed for Windows Server 2008 support)... Posted By: John Watson \| 10/10/2008 7:19 PM \| 0 Comments \| \| \|

	SSRS Subreports
	So today I ran across the dreaded "Error: Subreport could not be shown." The odd thing was that the report and subreport executed fine in business intelligence studio, yet this problem arose when the report was deployed to the SSRS server. The key to broken subreports that execute fine in stand-alone mode are the report parameters passed in from the r