IE8 Behavior and Duplicate Publishing Controls
Body: Today I ran across a strange anomaly in IE8. I thought I'd share a post about in the case that someone else runs across this issue, too.   Our page had two identical controls on it: one in an Edit Mode Panel and the other in the body of the page. I hadn't specified the ControlMode property on the Rich Image Placeholder control that wasn't in the Edit Mode Panel, because I didn't care if it showed up when the page was being edited, since I was using CSS in the Edit Model Panel to hide the div (so the page content wouldn't show up when the page was being edited.)   In other words, my scenario looked like this:

The Cloud De-Mist-ified
Body: When my 60-some year old mother-in-law asked me what "cloud computing" was, I was suprised. Suddenly, it seemed, a buzz-word that those of us in our IT subculture had been using for a while had gone mainstream. (I remember having the same reaction when I heard a news announcer say someone was wearing "bling".)   Sometimes it's nice, though, to be reminded that terms are not so obvious to people who might not be immersed in technology day and night. I ran across a nice video and article on CNN.com that explains that "cloud" computing is not "light and fluffy", but that data "in the cloud"

Virtualization Smorgasbord
Body: I've been a Virtual PC user for years, doing all my SharePoint development in a virtual environment. However, SharePoint 2010 only can be installed on x64 servers, and Virtual PC cannot support x64 guest systems. So, over the last week, I've experimented with a few options that could be utilized for SharePoint 2010 development in the future. (No, as cool as it is that we can develop SharePoint 2010 apps on a Windows 7 platform, I'm not interested in turning my host laptop into a development platform.) Boot from VHDWith Windows 7, you can now boot up your computer from a .vhd file. This is sort of like using partitions in days of old,

SharePoint 2009 Product Highlights - Lists and Columns
Body: I thought I would point out some of my favorite new and improved features of SharePoint 2010, which I learned about at SPC '09. I'm looking forward to seeing some of these in action: Universal Content Types Centrally ManagedBecause one Site Collection cannot span multiple databases, for disaster recovery reasons, many organizations split up their Intranet site into multiple Site Collections soas to divvy up their site between smaller content databases. However, Site Collections have boundaries between them, and deploying things like consistent Content Types across Site Collections has always been a

SharePoint 2010 Hands On Labs
Body: For those who attended SPC 2009, copies of the Hands on Labs have been made available for download in PDF or XPS format:   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm   My understanding is that the labs were written for the Beta 1 release. There's a good chance some of these labs will not work with Beta 2 when it's released. Category: SharePoint 2010 Published: 10/26/2009