A friend of mine, Christian Wenz, won himself a new Windows/Mobile phone. These were given away randomly to people who submitted feedback for sessions. Christian was submitting feedback for my session, so that's cool!
From Zig Ziglar (via Jim McKeeth) ... "The only thing worse than training good employees and losing them is NOT training your employees and keeping them."
But, I was told that there was at least one Tech-Ed/Europe speaker who ordered one. I should have selected it, just to see how large a 5X shirt would be! 
Server was down for a few days, due to a freak power outage (human error) at our hosting company. Long story short, the server was waiting patiently for several days for someone to press the F1 key ... I hate hardware!
For those who missed last week's "Learning Visual Studio Team System" chat, and can't wait for Microsoft to publish the transcript. Here it is, in its full and unedited form.
A few weeks ago I was working 18 hour days on a project in building 18 and, besides the free drinks, was enjoying the incredible bandwidth. Want to download something from MSDN subscribtion downloads?
If you are like me, then you are constantly copying and pasting from other documents, slides, or Web pages that you've created into Word 2003. It's a great repository for various content. The only problem is the formatting. Have you tried to paste HTML into Word lately? It will end up being pages and pages long. Try this.
- To remove all the formatting and related stuff like text boxes, select the text and hit Ctrl + Shift + N to remove all but the font formatting.
- To wipe out all formatting, select the text and hit Ctrl + Space.
I can't remember who told me about these shortcuts, but I'm much appreciative. I'm sure there's more in Word as well.
Our Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event has come to a close, and what a great class it was! We had 26 students, from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Denmark, Italy, the Russian Federation, Finland, Belgium, Macedonia, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, and France. 
A buddy of mine claimed it was true, and even sent me an email from BOI to prove it. Then, I found this article on Yahoo.
Yahoo!
Looks like 3 Leaf's Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers is online, with chapters that can be downloaded.
I call it 3 Leaf's book, because of who contributed: Kris Horrocks, Sean Campbell, Derek Hatchard, Peter Bernhardt, Scott Swigart.
A few of the GrokTalks filmed in Orlando are online, ready to watch or download.
So, what is a GrokTalk?
The deal is this: We've all sat through some pretty lousy technical sessions at conferences. For the most part, sessions at TechEd are filled with good information, but every once in a while you sit through 75 minutes in order to "grok" something that could have been explained in 10 minutes. We thought it'd be interesting if we put together three days of presentations that were only 10 minutes long!
I was just informed that the extra appendix, the samples for the extra appendix and all the rest of the sample/exercise files for the Unleashed are now available for download on the SAMS site. When you get to the page, click on the Download link in the More Information section. Appendix C is cool because it covers most of the adapters.
Also, if you are searching for a good book on InfoPath, check out Thomas Robbins' book. Oh, and if you want to preview a cool technology, check out a few pages of this book using the Google/Print Beta.
I hope you enjoyed the presentation today. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Here are the files from today.
Yep, I need to pay some bills, so it's time to have an ebay sale.
Wanna have some fun? Visit Googlefight and put in any two phrases (quots work best) and let the fight begin. Try C# and Java or Delphi and FoxPro.
Wanted to post a few photos of the book and my buddies.   
Want to hire Don Box for an hour? He and a number of other developer rockstars are up for auction (or at least one hour of their time is).
In this article, it looks like FIFA will consider using an electronic microchip inside soccer balls at the 2006 World Cup finals to help with goal-line calls.
My friend Darrel Carver just turned me onto MonoUML - CASE Tool, codename monalisa. You can dwnload it here.
If you are looking for a good resource for both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 resources, TechCenter is the place to visit.
I had a can of Viking Beer on my flight from JFK to Reykjavik last night, while I munched on smoked reindeer and sat next to the president of Iceland ... no really. What am I doing in Iceland you ask? I'm speaking at the SQL Server 2005 Roadshow tomorrow for SQL Server Magazine.
Give a little to charity, and help your career or project too! Twenty-three of the top Tech*Ed 2005 speakers, including Microsoft employees, will get together to help raise money for an organization that is doing amazing and heroic disaster relief and recovery in Aceh Province, Sumatra, the hardest hit area of the Dec 26th Tsunamis.
Go Bid!
Thank you to those whoe attended class. I enjoyed the opportunity to show off SQL Server 2005. Here are the files from class.
The Connected Systems 2005 Developer Competition, sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and MSDN Magazine is a skill based competition for professional developers intended to highlight and reward creativity and programming excellence using SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk 2004/2006. The competition is open to anyone who practices in the field of technology development, either individuals or organizations. Some eligibility restrictions apply; see Official Competition Rules for details.
Entries will be judged on creativity, innovation, design and technical excellence, usefulness, usability and value by a panel of industry experts selected from the Microsoft Regional Director program. All competition entrants must be registered and have submitted a description of the application they are entering into the competition by August 30, 2005. The official closing date for final competition entries is September 15, 2005.
All finalists will be invited to join the SQL Server, Visual Studio and BizTalk teams at the Joint SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio 2005/BizTalk 2006 launch event where the Winners will be announced at a dinner the evening before the launch.
For more information or to enter the competition please visit the competition website.
Microsoft is working on a new Windows-based operating system designed to help companies make older machines run better. The software will look and feel like much like Windows XP and will be equipped with Service Pack 2. The idea behind Eiger came from businesses and school systems that said they couldn't afford to replace an old fleet of computers but wanted machines running Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT to be more secure and easier to manage. Read the entire article here.
As we all know, SQL Server Reporting Services reports are saved as .RDL files. The files saved and consumed by the VS/Beta 2 Web-based report designer and viewer control, however, are .RDLC files. So, what are the differences?
Thanks to Scott Allen, a fellow VSLive! presenter for providing these valuable links to RDLC files.
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