Great example of tracing a leak in SharePoint.

Just read this article, it is a great example of how the memory dumps can be used to trace issues and also points out a workaround to solve this problem prior to a patch being released. http://www.todd-carter.com/post/2010/02/08/SharePointe28099s-Sasquatch-Memory-Leak.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - January Release

If you are looking at catching up with the VS2010 Beta 2 and Framework 4.0 world there is a free training kit avaiable at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en In additiona Channel 9 is also running some courses. http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/vs2010/

Visual Command Prompt Here

If you want to have the Visual Studio command prompt on the right-click on the folder place the below into a text file with a .reg extension and then add it to the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\cmdhere] @=“Cmd&Here” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\cmdhere\command] @=“c:\\WINNT\\system32\\cmd.exe /k \”\“C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\vcvarsall.bat\”\" x86"

Bing search cache for the win.

I managed to find a old sql backup of my site so the articles are back, still have to upload the code stuff. Bing was a nice help in being able to re-create recent articles using its cached copy. Will hit google later to see if there are any others I want.

Solidinternet is dead... along with my content

They are not responding and the servers are down, I have a continual ping setup in the vain hope the server may come up long enough to backup my files. Very Very Annoying.

Looking for Objects in the SharePoint Deployment failed log.

SharePoint Content Deployment can be a fun beast at times, this article will walk you through a approach for resolving issues. While working with a client we had the following error in a incremental job: The object has been updated by another user since it was last fetched Since the client was not on the latest patch level and unable to patch at this point in time I want to see if I could resolve it out manually. Continue reading

Paper Folding: How to Make a Paper Chatterbox

One for the kids big and small http://www.ehow.com/how_4460565_make-paper-chatterbox.html