MSDN recently posted the first chapter as an excerpt from a book that my Critical Path Training colleagues Ted Pattison, Scot Hiller & I have been working on: Inside SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft recently posted about the new VS 2010 SharePoint Power Tools project. Right now the contents are pretty slim, but the two things that are in there are freaking awesome.

Microsoft has an internal conference available to Microsoft field employees to get a deep drill down on their various products & technologies called TechReady.

The SharePoint Technology Conference (aka SPTechCon) is heading back to Boston this coming October. I absolutely love Boston and I'm looking forward to presenting a few sessions at this show:

Finally hitting a bit of a stride with the SharePoint Saturday events and after a year of missing all of them, I'll be presenting at two of them this year.

A few months back I blogged about a free utility available for download on the Critical Path Training site called the SharePoint Site Collection Keep Alive Utility.