[Cross Posted on SharePointDevWiki.com News]

• SharePoint Saturday Sydney (8th August)
  @BrianFarnhill et al are organising Australia’s first SharePoint Saturday. @DanielBrownSA is also organising one in Adelaide too.

• Winsmarts SharePoint WCF Support
  @SahilMalik has gotten around to releasing on CodePlex the Solution Package with a feature to activate WCF for SharePoint. Great work! I’m making a grand assumption that SharePoint 2010 will have this as default, so always good to get comfortable with it now.

• Providing Application Diagnostics - patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance
  Some great guidance on Tracing & Logging in SharePoint via the Microsoft P&P team!

• Managing SharePoint Configuration- patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance
  Some great guidance on configuration management by the Microsoft P&P team and referrals to some awesome Community solutions for configuration management in SharePoint

• Securing SharePoint List/Document Library Views Seems (sort of) Possible with jQuery
  @PaulGalvin has presented a solution to get round that sneaky business requirement that always seems to come up around securing views on a SharePoint List using jQuery.

• patterns & practices Web Client Software Factory - Release: Guidance to enable Unity in a SharePoint App
  I have been playing with IoC recently and found this great post on the P&P site explaining how Unity can be integrated with SharePoint

• Ian's SharePoint Blog - Testing SharePoint Kerberos Configuration
  @IMorrish published this, not always a development concern, but a great little tool to test Kerberos configuration in an environment.

• Guest Blog by HiSoftware's Founder Robert Yonaitis - Customizing the Page Editing Toolbar to Include Content Validation for the Web Content Scenario in MOSS - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
  There has been a few of these types of articles published, but I like this one as it puts some more weight around accessibility in a WCM solution!

• SharePoint Solution Deployment Strategies – Dare I say Best Practices?
  LOL the dreaded “Best Practices” slogan…but some good guidance within this article on what you should deploy using Solution Packages with some different scenarios depending on the size of the project.

• SaurabhKV : SharePoint 2007 Development - Build Processes
  Covering off another approach to SharePoint Development Solution Packaging like VSeWSS, WSPBuilder and STSDev.

• MOSS How to ...: Create a Report from an Analysis Services 2008 Database and deploy it in SharePoint 2007
  A great walk through of how to set up a report in a reporting services environment from start to finish!

• I got tired of attaching debugger to w3wp.exe. And you? - Life of a Hungarian SharePoint Geek
  Another nice little addition to attaching the debugger whilst doing SharePoint development…everyones favourite past time!

• New *FREE* Enhanced Discussion Board View for SharePoint - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
  @JoelOleson published information on a new Solution Package that makes Discussion Boards useable…as the out of the box ones simply don’t cut the mustard.