The Last UG Meeting…
I don’t think it’s fully hit me yet.  This past Thursday was the last user group meeting of the year and the last meeting with me present as leader.  Next week I am meeting with about 4 or 5 people to hand over the KC Office Geeks.  Every so often I look back and reflect on where I have come in the past few years and how I got to this point in time.  We have 177 people on the mailing list and an average from 15-20 people at each meeting.  When Jeff handed off the group to me we were average 3 people per meeting.  There were no events in Kansas City – SharePoint or Dot Net related.  Since then we have had a Day of Dot Net and SharePoint Saturday (thanks Lee Brandt).  I just

Major Conference Cherry Popped…
So you are going to an event with 7,000 people that have similar interests to learn about a product that you have a vague idea about…I was excited prior to the event and nervous.  I had a very bad week before the event.  Every piece of technology that I brought with me to St. Louis broke.  I had little sleep trying to get my code done and my technology to the point I started out with that Monday.  Finally by Friday I was beat and hung out with my friends…On Saturday I went to Coders and everything after that was a huge blur…I think I boarded a plane to Vegas.  I’m pretty sure I saw Susan Lennon and a bunch of other people, but honestly I feel like every social gene in my bod

Yes I'm Still Alive and Attending SPC 09
So I scraped together the money and paid in full to go to the conference as I've said before.  Here is a complete list of all the sessions I will be attending: Monday 1:15 - Overview and Whats New for SharePoint 2010 IT Pro's 2:45 - What's New in Office 2010 for Developers 4:30 - Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 Tuesday 9:00 - Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 3 and SharePoint 2010 10:30 - FAST Search for SharePoint: Capabilities and Deep Dive 1:15 - Developing SharePoint 2010 Applications with the Client Object Model 2:45 - Deep Dive in SharePoint 2010 My Sites and Social Networking 4:30

Support SPDevWiki by Sponsoring SPC Shirts
For all 10 of you guys who read my blog and the 200 or so bots that are there to make me feel comfortable I learned something really sad tonight.  Jeremy Thake, who runs http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com, lost his shirt sponsor for SharePoint Conference.  We all use it as developers in the SharePoint world from correct disposal to how would you loop through a series of items in a list.  So come on guys you know you want to sponsor the shirts he was going to make up for SharePoint Conference so we all can promote a website that helps the SharePoint Community.  Jeremy doesn’t maintain this site for

Repeated Authentication When Booting A Shared Service Provider
I created a brand spanking new environment, Server 2008 x64, SQL Server 2008, WSPBuilder, and Visual Studio 2008 Team Systems…All the awesome that you would expect out of a base development environment for SharePoint.  I get to the Shared Service Provider and it keeps prompting me to authenticate repeatedly.  I checked the logs and it looked like it wasn’t even passing credentials in the Event Viewer.  I got that generic can’t pass the token or whatever error.  So I thought maybe it’s related to a trusted site issue and add the site to the trusted sites.  Of course that doesn’t fix the issue…Lame… On a whim I decide it’s time to throw in the registry hack for