[Cross Posted on www.SharePointDevWiki.com]

It seems every week more and more great content appears! These could almost become daily Coffee break posts!

WSP

• Carsten Keutmann: Beginning SharePoint Development (Bonus part #3 WSPBuilder overview)
  Hot off the press! Carsten has released a fix for an installation issue with WSPBuilder! This man is the shining light of all things SharePoint Dev Tools!
• Planning SharePoint Solution Packages (WSPs) - Eli Robillard's World of Blog
  Eli has done a great job of articulating the most generic way of breaking up WSPs…which is a question commonly asked of me.
• UK SharePoint Team : Modifying out-of-the-box SharePoint files
  Yes guys, don’t modify out of the box 12 files…but if you do…read below…
• SharePoint 2007 – 12 Hive System-File Changes: One Feature to rule them all! - Sharad Kumar
  This is a really nice concept…creating a backup on replacing a 12 hive file. I tend to just have backups of 12 Hive files for each major release SP1, Infra Updates, SP2 etc and use file diff…but another nice approach.
• John W Powell : Automate SharePoint Solution Builds with Visual Studio Extensions For Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) 1.3
  Some TFS goodness with VSeWSS

• Use TFS to automate even better WSP builds with WSPBuilder « Brian Farnhill
  And some more TFS goodness with WSPBuilder :-)

Environment

• How to effectively manage your SharePoint Environments, deployments and customsations with solid governance, solution packages and source control by Phil Whicklund
  Very good presentation on Configuration Management
• Zac Smith's SharePoint Blog - Installation accounts for a dev/test server
  Completely agree with this…have a read…catch things as early as possible…security is always last thing to remember…before Reports that is ;-)
• Connecting to SharePoint 2007 Web Services using a Service Reference in Visual Studio 2008 - Windows Live
  Nice little reminders on SharePoint Web Services with WCF from April

• A new approach to solve SharePoint’s painfully slow spin-up / start-up time for first request | Muhimbi's SharePoint Blog
  Application Pool taking AGES to start up…check this post out! AWESOME!

• Securing Application Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  Updated advice on MSDN on securing application pages
• SharePoint Code Snippets
  Great set of code snippets for VS2005/8

API

• Performance of various methods to retrieve one list item - Waldek Mastykarz
  Waldek does it again with a thorough post on different methods of retrieving a list item

• Steve Fox : Retrieve SharePoint List Data with XLINQ using VS 2010 Beta 1
  Some cool future stuff with XLING in VS2010

Agile Development

• Measuring velocity is not enough | Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP
  Andrew is sharing his experiences with TDD…really looking forward to this book once it’s published!

• Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 | Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP
  and another one..

WCM

• Top Sharepoint Sites | Sharepoint Gallery | Sharepoint Showcase
  Great new site…kind of competing against Ian Morrish’s www.wssdemo.com excellent resource, but worth a mention!
• Chris O'Brien's blog: My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites
  Probably the post of the week for me! Great stuff by Chris on optimising SharePoint…again always the last thing people think of!
• SharePoint RTE breaks in IE8 when in editing mode - Waldek Mastykarz
  Waldek raises some issues with Rich Text Editor in IE8 :-(

• Building Public Facing SharePoint Site - SharePoint Saturday Chicago Session Recap - George Durzi
  George Durzi presents some great stuff around WCM

• Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com
  AN interesting case study on the new shiny SharePoint.Microsoft.com site

Cloud

• Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : SharePoint Online IPD Guide Published
  Some more information on SharePoint for the cloud

Misc

• SharePoint Social Computing - Enterprise Social Software
  A new site released today focusing on SharePoint and Social Computing…interesting to see where this goes…
• Guest Blog by BlueThread's Rob D'Oria - Why is that BLOB in My SharePoint Database? - The Bamboo Team Blog - Bamboo Nation
  Good explanations on BLOB architecture in SharePoint…the most used weapon by other Vendors to combat SharePoint ;-)
• SharePoint Designer 2007 Governance: Options for selective lockdown? - Sharad Kumar
  Lock it down! Uninstall it! It’s growing on me, but the source code it manipulates isn’t ;-)
• Tony Testa's World | What are my options for forums in SharePoint?
  Some good advice around Forums in SharePoint…because lets face it…the Discussion Board sucks more than the Wiki’s!