I have a clean install on the latest and greatest: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and MOSS 2007 SP1 with all updates. This is the layout of my farm:

http://<server>:80   - Portal
http://<server>:8000 - Central Admin
http://<server>:8001 - SSP
http://mysite        - MySites

Everything works fine, except the search crawl gave Access Denied errors on http://mysite and sps3://mysite.

While working on a project with some existing code I noticed the developer did write large portions of code to get from an URL to a SPList. He probably didn’t know some of the hidden gems in SharePoint.

Sometimes you have to split your code into different assemblies. For example, when I created a custom Admin Page which inherits from WebAdminPageBase (Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages).

The problem with Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages is that it is not deployed to the GAC.

Lately I am working a lot with LINQ and all flavors like LINQ to XML, LINQ to XSD, LINQ to objects, etc.
Today I had to build some functionality in SharePoint where I had to split users in two groups based on a profile property in their User Profile.

In this article I will show you how I did this.

It has been a while having time and content to post on this blog but I am back again. 🙂

I am currently at the Project Conference 2007 in Seattle and by visiting the sessions and talking to the people at Microsoft developing the solution I got a lot of answers for things I could not find on the web or in the SDK.
The next couple of weeks I will try to post the things I found out.