Last night I go to present to the San Diego Small Business Server User Group on PowerShell and IIS7. I had a great time, the group is extremely diverse group. We had a scheduling conflict with the San Diego SharePoint Users Group and I had to ask the SBS group to use a smaller room in the San Diego office and they were great about it, we had about 20 people packed in to the room and no complaints.

The slides I used are here as a pdf file. I am looking forward to doing more with this group.

all the links in the slides are below:
For PowerShell

Newsgroup:  Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell
Channel 9 tag:  http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Monad
Team blog:  http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/
Marc van Orsouw’s blog:  http://ThePowerShellGuy
Wiki:  http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellWiki
Script Center:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
O’Reilly book – Monad:  Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msh/
Manning Press book by Bruce Payette: PowerShell in Action
http://manning.com/powershell/
Sapien Press book by Don Jones: PowerShell
http://www.sapienpress.com/
PowerShellAnalyzer tool
http://www.karlprosser.com/coder/?cat=8

For II7

Web site: http://www.iis.net
GoLive: http://www.iis.net/goLive
Developers: http://www.iis.net/developer

I was on a hunt for what Longhorn will bring and found this document titled Changes in Functionality from Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" you can get it for your offline or online pleasure.

While I am mostly interested in PowerShell and IIS7 on Longhorn you can see from all the changes that there has been a huge investment in this release. I can even see me moving to Longhorn as my desktop OS soon.

Well I did it I got pewitt.org off webhost4life.com and now have it hosted at godaddy.com my buddy Tim heuer uses them and recommended then quite strongly. It was a bit of a bad day on Wednesday when I was going through all the DNS issues to get the site migrated but that is now all history. Now I hope my blog will not be down every hour!

I recently able to help the Southern California DotNetNuke Users Group to host a virtual presentation by Shaun Walker the dotNetNuke projector founder. We used Microsoft Live meeting to project Shaun's slides and show is real time demonstrations to the group in Buena Park, CA while he was at his home in Canada.

To get all the information about the meeting and how you can view the recording go to Michael Washington's blog post entry about the meeting on the dotnetnuke web site.

The new nibbles tutorials site is a great display of what Silverlight can do as well as a great way to learn some of the basics of how to create Silverlight content.

My buddy in Phoenix Tim Heuer posted about a new Silverlight game that he helped\witnessed get created called Zero Gravity. What I liked was his description of the tools used and workflow between designer and developer. Read it all on his post silverlight: who needs inertia, introducing lt. bennett

I can't take any of the credit for the two new articles that were posted on how to work with WSS 3.0 as a developer other then to say I was one of the many who said WTF to the documentation about it.

Over all the articles don't make WSS development pushbutton but at least this documents the process much better. I hope you find them as good of a read as I did.

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)
Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 2 of 2)

The content for the mobility touchdown events that I was at in Los Angeles and Las Vegas has been updated and is available for download from Q4Tech's web site at Mobility touchdown content. If you attended any of the events around the world you will want to get the final content as all the bugs were fixed as the content was bending given.

For a review of what the Mobility touchdown events were see the MSDN blog http://blogs.msdn.com/mobilitytouchdown.

Just incase you had not seen this back in November Q4Tech released to CodePlex an implementation of the Patterns & Practices Mobile Updater Application Block. I have seen it used and it's quite feature complete, I hope to have my line of business application demo back online soon and have it using this block.

A area of development that miss not working with as often as I would like is programming for Windows CE. I did a lot of development for CE with the Compact Framework before I joined Microsoft and have contented to develop some small proof of concept applications to show what is possible but as always if not part of your day to day job you tend not to keep up and that is where I am at with this (and many other) topic.

I recently found the HopperRX blog that has a bunch of good advice and tools to help develop applications for CE I hope it can help any of you keep up as well.