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I work with Groove and SharePoint and after reading Keith Pleas' posting on 'Collaboration Design Patterns' it has conjured up a lot of good ideas. Both Groove and SharePoint are extendable with Groove tools (using the GDK/GTK) and WebParts (& also web service calls via CAML & lists). I find that "collaboration" is really an amalgamation of several patterns. As a developer it will certainly help decomposing the various patterns and seeing the 'sum of the (pattern) parts'.

This is a posting at Paresh Suthar's weblog.  I have reposted Paresh's rant here (for those, who like me, are lazy, procastinate and love donuts that make the mouse and keyboard sticky beyond use at times) -

For the past several weeks I have been working on a fairly intensive SharePoint deployment project. I have found the SharePoint Configuration Analyzer to be an indispensible tool. Perhaps MSFT should consider releasing its development (under GotDotNet) so that it may be enhanced with new features (and certain fixes). I have mounds of new ideas for it.

I had posted this about a year ago and after a few projects I am still looking for some good SharePoint Hosting Providers. My current projects for clients calls for some fairly reliable hosting. Any caveats, etc.. ? TIA.

Roy has a very interesting post about buying books - I thought I'd add a few words here:

I was looking forward to trying out the Intranet Templates (see MSDN June 04 issue). Apparently, the Templates were removed from the current release of VS2K5 (see ASP.Net forums). Bummer.. I'll have to wait for the beta..

Exam 70-340 (Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET) is now an elective (moved from the beta exams) for the MCSD/MCAD certifications.

I do hope Visual Studio 2005 Team System has RSS Feeds! Much like Greg Reinacker's RSS for VSS (very timely and useful).