To celebrate the launch of my blog I have a t-shirt to give away.
Along with the t-shirt I will include two pens and two notepads.
The t-shirt is size XL and is a high quality cotton t-shirt with a graphic on the front.
Unworn and brand new.


To enter the giveaway:

Step 1: Follow me on twitter
Step 2: Comment on this blog post that you have completed step 1.
For each new follower please come back and comment on this blog post that you completed the step of following me on twitter.
Giveaway rules:
The giveaway will start on 02/21/2010 6pm CST and end on 2/28/2010 6pm CST.
I will choose at random the winner from entrants that complete both steps of following me on twitter and commenting on this blog post that you completed step 1.
Giveaway delivery:
I will ship at my own expense the prize outlined in this giveaway.
I will contact the winner to obtain location for shipment.
Please make sure your profile includes an email address or other means of contacting you for your delivery location.
International locations included but keep in mind that you will be responsible for import duties or applicable tariffs.
Thanks and I hope to collaborate with everyone!!
Neal McFee
Overview of Content Deployment
- What is content deployment?
- What are paths and jobs?
- When to use content deployment
- Alternatives to content deployment
How many farms do you need?
Examples:
Authoring, staging,and production farm
Single publishing farm
Authoring and production farm
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This evaluation guide is designed to give you an overview of the feature set and extensibility points for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and an understanding of how the professional developer can use these features and extensibility points to create comprehensive solutions. This guide begins with an overview of the types of solutions that you can build by developing on SharePoint. It then addresses the developer tools for SharePoint 2010, the new platform features, and the solution deployment enhancements. The guide concludes with six walkthroughs that show example developer customizations in SharePoint 2010.
Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Summary of What’s New
- Key Types of Solutions Built on SharePoint by Developers
- Building Applications on SharePoint
- Business Collaborative Applications
- User Interface Portal for Line of Business Application Data
- Customizing Out-of-Box Workloads
- One Web Part Solutions
- Improved Developer Productivity with Better Tools
- Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
- Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools extensibility
- Developer Workstation support for Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP1
- Upgrading from Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint to Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
- SharePoint Designer 2010
- SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow Design
- SharePoint Designer 2010 Business Connectivity Services Design
- Developer Dashboard
- SharePoint 2010 Application Lifecycle Management
- Better Solutions with Rich Platform Services
- User Interface
- Building User Interface
- The SharePoint 2010 Ribbon
- The SharePoint 2010 Dialog Framework
- New Silverlight Web Part
- Data and Programmability
- SharePoint List Lookups and Relationships
- Business Connectivity Services
- LINQ to SharePoint
- Performance Enhancements
- Event Enhancements
- Workflow Enhancements
- Document Sets
- SharePoint 2010 API Choices
- Flexible Deployment Increases the value of SharePoint Solutions
- Sandboxed Solutions
- SharePoint Online
- Upgrading Solutions
- Learning More
- Conclusion
SharePoint 2010 Developer WalkthroughsWalkthrough 1: Using LINQ to SharePoint from within a Visual web partWalkthrough 2: Building a Web Part for a Sandboxed SolutionWalkthrough 3: SharePoint Designer Workflows imported to Visual Studio 2010Walkthrough 4: Accessing List Data using the JavaScript Client OMWalkthrough 5: Creating and Using External Lists in SharePoint 2010Walkthrough 6: Extending the SharePoint 2010 UI with Silverlight
Link to PDF – SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs