The Kitchen Sync

I’ve been worrying about when and if Microsoft is going to update their WSS Developer VPC image. The one they published last year is still available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1beeac6f-2ea1-4769-9948-74a74bd604fa&displaylang=en

…and yet it just expired.

Unfortunately I recommended to a lot of folks (at a dnug presentation, and here: http://dkitchen.net/blog/?p=166) that they would do well to develop on this image. I recalled proudly that last year, Microsoft freshened the VPC image from the previous year, so “certainly they can be counted on to do the same this year.”

Oops.

My apologies to any trusting friends and colleagues. I’m just another sorry, trusting soul out there along with the rest of you.

Best post I’ve ever read regarding the reality of SharePoint:

http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2009/09/29/sharepoint-fud-spreading-far-wide-and-fast.aspx

My favorite quote (not specifically about SharePoint, but a good jab at developers):

“Would you code SQL statements and database connections in the code-behind page of an ASP.NET form?”

…um, er, *cough* no, uh, who does THAT? uh, excuse me, gotta go somewhere else and check with a guy about a thing… uh…