Are you going to the Central Coast Code Camp on September 22nd & 23rd and coming from San Diego or LA? Well I am and I have decide to take the train up. It's a long ride but can be fun.

On 9/21/2007 I will be taking the Amtrak:

Pacific Surfliner #763 from Oceanside (7:02 am) to Los Angeles - Union Station (8:50)
Coast Starlight #14 from Los Angeles - Union Station (10:15 am) to San Luis Obispo (3:30 pm)

I will be hanging out in the Sightseer car (the big glass bubble).

And on 9/24/2007 I will be taking the Amtrak:

Pacific Surfliner #774 from San Luis Obispo (6:45 am) to Oceanside (2:13 pm)

A San Diego IT Architect Regional Conference is coming!

October 15 & 16 2007 at the Sheraton Marina in San Diego, CA (great location for a conference)

The only problem is that the early bird registration is about to end. You need to get registered by September 14 (this Friday) or you will pay $100 more than you needed to.

Not sure you need to go? Well look at the Topics and Speakers that will be talking there... (Simon Guest, Ted Neward and may other rock stars)

I know this has been covered by many others but I feel I need to jump on the band wagon...

For the official news go to the press release Microsoft Delivers Silverlight 1.0, Extends Support to Linux WTF? Yes we have made a deal with Novel to do a bunch of legal stuff that will let people use the Moonlight project from Mono to run Silverlight applications without worry of getting in trouble with intellectual property issues.

I think this a great for every one concerned! I know it will help Mono and Microsoft in the short and long term! I hope we do more of this type of stuff!

I was at a local users group last night and was confirmed in the suspicion that September 25th will be a day where a lot of fellow geeks will be calling in sick. I was also pointed to this article in Wired Halo 3: How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science of Play it's a long read but quite interesting.

I just found out that Microsoft has just opened the beta of the Sky Drive service on Live.com. For free you get 500meg of storage, you can install an ActiveX component so you can drag and drop files. I love having some storage that I can access easily, while this service dose not have an API to it I hope we will get that soon.

By the way if you are looking for more space, a better client and better integration for a backup solution check out Elephantdrive they have a cool client that will keep files and\or folders that you specify backed up.

Southern California SharePoint User Group August Meeting

The Southern California SharePoint User Group is created as a free resource for the purpose of exchanging ideas and information related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and related technologies.  Our meetings cover topics on Microsoft Office in general, and SharePoint in particular, that are of interest to Application Developers, Business Information Workers and System Engineers. 

In short, we encompass all aspects of Microsoft Office Server 2007.  The group is run exclusively by volunteers.  Our meetings are designed specifically to provide information that is of practical benefit to developers of any level of knowledge, from novice to expert.  Each meeting is normally structured with two presentations for a greater variety of information.  We also attempt to help with specific problems and questions outside of the main presentations in a one-on-one meeting with a knowledgeable volunteer. 

Meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month starting at 6:30 pm, and ending at 9:00 pm. 

Agenda for the August 15th meeting:

The August meeting is a special joint meeting of the San Diego SQL Server user Group and the Southern California SharePoint User Group featuring Bill Vaughn

Time
6:30 - 7:00 pm      Arrival, User Group Announcements, Networking, Pizza
7:00 - 7:50 pm      Part 1 of Bill's presentation
7:50 - 8:00 pm      Break
8:00 - 8:50 pm      Part 2 of Bill's presentation

The meeting will be held at the San Diego Microsoft Office:
9255 Towne Center Drive
Suite 400
San Diego, CA 92121

My good buddy Stephen Rose was the guest on the latest RunAs Radio show... well worth the time to tine in!

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.