Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays… stop reading blogs and go spend time with family!

[via Stefan Gossner & Maxime Bombardier] The Content Editor Web Part, as many people have realized who’ve tried to use it in Publishing sites and then extend multiple Web apps or leverage content deployment, stores links as absolute references rather than relative ones.

Earlier this year I built a custom server with a few goals in mind: Very powerful & capable of running multiple machines for an extended time Must be quiet Fault tolerant Not requiring a hardware upgrade for a few years The specs for this box have made it something that’s turned into a great business expense as I’ve got so much use out of it.

[via SharePoint Security] I couldn’t agree more with Adam’s latest post. Too many people get hung up on “best practices” and thing they are the panacea in their SharePoint deployment when they should ALWAYS be taken at face value and used simply as a point of consideration in implementations.

[via Wouter Van Vugt] One of the biggest value add propositions of SharePoint’s integration of Windows Workflow Foundation is the introduction of a human element.

Earlier today Microsoft released the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) toolkit on MSDN Code Gallery as a unsupported sample for SharePoint under the Ms-PL license.

An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies, assists people in finding help and different resources when embarking on SharePoint projects.

[via DevExpress] Check out DevExpress’ SharePoint ASP.NET demo control site: http://sharepoint.devexpress.com/default.aspx This slick new SharePoint site is being used to host a few of their ASP.

So I see I’ve been tagged by both pals Nick Swan and Spencer Harbar for geek Christmas recommendations.

Subject says it all… I’ll be at the European SharePoint Best Practices conference in London, UK April 6-8, 2009.