Thanksgiving 2009
Just another day in the life of Dan… that’s what I tell myself every morning as I get ready for the day. It’s been a perplexing year with several life changes and challenges - whether family related, work or things in the social and technical communities that I’m involved with. Today is Thanksgiving though, the day that we stop and breath and remember how blessed we are in this world. I know that for me, living in the Northern Virginia area I don’t see quite the same economic conditions that seem to exist in other parts of the country. I read articles on BBC, CNN, Fox and Drudge and suddenly see the enormity of the pain and hard times that are

Predictions for SPC 2009
For some reason people like predictions as to what “could” happen at a conference or event. It seems that whenever there’s an Apple developer’s conference there’s a new or refined product released causing a mad rush to Apple stores. For conferences like VMWare’s VMWorld, there typically isn’t a mad dash to MicroCenter to pick up a new copy of Workstation or ESX, and likewise, with Microsoft release event, there might be a growing buzz to pick up something like Windows 7, but there hasn’t been this amoun

SharePoint Saturday Richmond
Live in the greater Richmond metropolitan area? Looking for some great SharePoint information in a low key setting where you can easily interact with the Pros? Then check out SharePoint Saturday Richmond, a grass roots event with excellent speakers to boot. If you’re free on 21 November, head on over for SPS Richmond. Registration opens up at 10 AM on 14 October 2009 - http://spsrichmond.eventbrite.com/ For more information about the event, check out

VMWare Fusion 3.0 - Coming Soon
Similar to several other applications, with the introduction of Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6) it’s all about optimization of processor cycles using the 64 bit architecture of the underlying Darwin platform. With this upgrade it several software vendors are working expeditiously to release upgraded applications that better leverage memory and the platform. For virtualization on the Mac, there are a few different solutions, my personal choice is VMWare Fusion which allows for the operation of virtual machines built with other VMware tools such as Workstation. With the next iteration of the VMWare Fusion software, Windows 7 will be supported as a host operating system.

ShareClave 2010 Unconference
Not going to the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas due to circumstances beyond your control? Live in the Northern Virginia area? Want to know more about SharePoint 2010? Check out ShareClave, the 2010 Unconference on 24 October in Reston, VA at the Microsoft Technology Center. The agenda is a hybrid conference / unconference schedule. The first half of the day will be structured wit