I frequently get questions people asking how they should go about setting up their development environment.

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of spending a day with the Microsoft Patterns & Practices group which is working on developing some good guidance for SharePoint developers.

James Waymire, a Microsoft SharePoint support engineer, has a great recent post on his blog talking about patching SharePoint.

Fellow SharePoint MVP Andrew Woodward has posted a paper on doing test driven development with SharePoint.

So I get swamped at home (Jacksonville, FL) last week from Tuesday through Saturday thanks to Tropical Storm Fay… then it rains all afternoon on Sunday when I fly out to Seattle.

While I had no problem installing VS2008 SP1 on my virtual machines, I’ve been having a heck of a time installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my host OS ever since it came out.

One of my favorite ways to get support is customer-to-customer (aka: peer-to-peer). It’s usually quicker but more importantly, there’s tons of info in forums and other communities to usually find your issue and it’s resolution from someone else having the problem.

The folks who put on the Jacksonville Code Camp did one heck of a job pulling it off.

_It’s been a long week being preoccupied with tropical storm Fay. Usually you keep a close eye on these things for a few days and then they are gone.

So I’m trying to setup ISA on my home network… but not as a firewall. There are just two things I want: