Microsoft Learning just released some new resources for all of us who are starting to get up to speed.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 – Learning Portal is the place to learn more. I am quite excited by the availability of the free e-book that is posted there.

I had not seen this until today but if you want to have an online meeting with up to 15 people here is a great way to do it. It's almost like LiveMeeting but free!

Microsoft SharedView Beta

I found this way too funny not to pass on!

UPDATE: looks like there a some "issues" with the photos used in this video so YouTube has removed this video but for now you can still see it here. If you want to know the issue around the content Scott Beals has a good blog post about here.

UPDATE #2: The video is back up on YouTube, I don't know the back story of it getting back up but I changed my link above to link to it again.

Lynn (my local counter part) did a great blog post about the Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest that I put on on Wednesday night in Irvine, CA. It was a hot night (no I am serous the air conditioning could not keep up) but much fun was had!

Thank you to all the user groups in SoCal for getting there members out to the event, I am just sorry we did not have more room, we could have had double the people if we had more room.

I hope to have more events in late January and early February.

Contagious Curiosity : Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest - Irvine, CA

The Expression team just released the Dec Preview if Blend 2 to see what's new check out the teams blog to download go here.

If you have not figured it out I live the MSDN Virtual Labs, they are a quick easy way to lean about stuff with little impact to your system. A few new labs were recently released, use them in good health.

What’s new in C# 3.0?
What’s new in Visual Basic 9?
Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008

I was at SliverLight training all last week with a group of Developer Evangelists and we could not stop laughing about the xkcd.com comic below. I know it's way geeky but wow I had no idea how geeky, after half an hour of trying to explaining it to my wife it finally sunk in just how geeky.

I have not read the entire document yet (I will save that for the flight home today) but this is an interesting report. This shows why I have a job, MS has made huge investments in security at all levels but the worlds perception is that we still are not secure, my job to help show the world what the investments we have made mean for users of our products.

Download the report here: Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis

Just announced Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework I had not know we were going to CTP with this but it's a huge features that will solve a lot of problems!

Wow SliverLight 2.0 and now this... too much good stuff not enough time in the day!

You should read it... it's all good!

.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)