Today I had the chance to configure a stand-alone sharepoint server on the Amazone EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) environment.

It takes a while to learn all the documentation and different options but if you are familiar with Hyper-V or any other technology, you will discover that the user interface of EC2 is very easy to understand.

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These are the links I used to configure the EC2 server:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC ... rtedGuide/

This firefox add-in elasticfox is a real timesaver:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/ ... nalID=1797

Setting the credentials in elasticfox:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=https%3A%2F%2Faws-portal.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Faws%2Fdeveloper%2Faccount%2Findex.html%2F?action=access-key&tag=bucket-20

Problem 1: after each reboot the server receives a new servername, this is not so interesting because SharePoint and SQL server are not so happy with this. Resulting in "cannot connect to the configuration database". It seems like 1 little checkbox is the solving answer!
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After I disabled this setting, renamed my server and rebooted... the whole SharePoint server worked like a charm!

Artemis Oliver posted 50 very interesting jQuery scripts.
http://addyosmani.com/blog/50-jquery-sn ... evelopers/
Nice post!

Recently I found this awesome JQuery plugin on codeplex, the plugin called jQuery Ribbon. Low learning curve, easy to use and working just fine, just how I like them! Nice job Mikael Söderström.

I used this plugin to create an asynchronous shell around my blog.You can see the result in action at
http://tomvangaever.be/blog/ribbon/



JQuery plugin on codeplex

I just received this wonderfull ebook from a colleague. This pdf is free of charge and it contains a detailed description with screenshots about all the new features and nice-to-haves included in the new OS; windows 7.

Use it to convince the pessimists from the dark side! ;)

download: http://bit.ly/5YpjQo

Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server 2010


This MSDN article contains all the information needed to create a Windows 7 development environment. It is advised to create a bootable windows 7 VHD in order to use all available resources, more information about creating bootable VHD's


Some important addidtional notes:
Windows 7 enterprise or ultimate, both x64
At least 4GB RAM

Links
Setting up Windows 7 for Office & SharePoint 2010 Beta Development: http://bit.ly/5svSgJ
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 x64 [codeproject]: http://bit.ly/7tt6U3

SharePoint beta installation files:
http://bit.ly/2COQdL
http://bit.ly/79gU5y