Falafel is partnering with Microsoft to offer this free half day seminar at the beautiful Saint Claire hotel in downtown San Jose, CA to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, WPF, WCF, WF and other exciting technologies.

It is Saturday, I am getting some TV time this weekend and just saw some ridiculous news on CNN.  You know food in the US is not charged Taxes unless ordered in a restaurant.  Buying just straight food is not taxable.

Our friends in the state of IOWA decided that Pumpkins are not used as food much but mainly as "decorations", well IOWA state is starting to charge TAXES on pumpkins. If you intend to purchase the pumpkins to eat, you are expected to fill out an application at the store stating your intent and that it will not be used for decoration.

Are you kidding me!

If you are considering testing the waters for developing in Sharepoint 2007 or even building some sites using the MOSS technology , I recommend you use this excellent whitepaper written by Tony Zink to set up a Virtual Image to get everything needed running smoothly.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

During my trip to Bulgaria speaking at the DevReach conference, earlier this month, I was interviewed by the great people of SilverlightShow.net to comment on the state of Silverlight, its present and future direction.  Feel free to watch the video here.

You can also view the interview they did on the subject with my friend Todd Anglin from Telerik on the same day.

I just got back yesterday from a week long training sessions at Xerox in Rochester, NY.  I enjoyed my week there.  The weather was great, unexpectedly, and the city was calm with plenty of wonderful people everywhere I went.

TestComplete 6 behaved nicely after its release 3 weeks ago and proved to be a great addition to any quality assurance team worldwide.

Thank you Xerox! and thank you Rochester for a great week!

A group of the Falafel team took a well deserved week of vacation together and headed to Puerto Vallarta.  We had a great time and it was great to spend some time with friends and colleagues.  The Falafel team works very hard and parties very hard as well!

Our friends at AutomatedQA just released TestComplete 6.0 on Wednesday September 26th 2007.  Congratulations to the whole team!

I was in Irvine during that time teaching a TestComplete 5.0 class for 3 days.

TestComplete 6 adds significant new features to the award winning testing tool, from testing 64 bit applications, to testing popular 3rd party controls in Winforms and ASP.NET applications, plus improved Web Testing environment.

Kudos and Cheers to the AQ team!

If you are like me, having several computers thrown out of your house, in the middle of the street, out of frustration, because of the simple act of wisdom of trying to open a Word or Excel doc inside you Sharepoint 2007 site, welcome aboard!

After several visits to the therapist, sacrificing a duck and Googling the heck out of this issue, I am happy to share that Microsoft released a hot fix to remedy the situation at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/938888

If you are more interested in knowing what really was going on, well, After installing Office 2007, you must have installed another Office 2007 goodie like Sharepoint Designer 2007 or one of the nice new looking Office 2007 application add-ons that changed an important DLL in your office12 folder called OWSSUPP.DLL or as I call it "Satan.DLL".  Unfortunately, the new DLL is incompatible with NAME.DLL which it has to call into.

As a matter of fact, before this patch from Microsoft, the way to hack it was to get OWSSUPP.DLL from any Office 11 installation then run RegServ32 on it (which will fail by the way) (Not really, as it registered correctly, it just felt like reporting a failure to you anyway as a punishment)

Anyway, I LOVE SHAREPOINT, IT IS CONSULTING AND TRAINING HEAVEN :)