Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

My old WM5 device was the iMate JASJAR (aka the HTC Universal), now I have an HTC P4350 (aka the HTC Herald). This article describes applications and practices to make this device as handy as a laptop.

This is late warning, but tomorrow there is a free CorasWorks workshop at CTC from 8:30am to 5:00pm. If you would like to sit in, please e-mail jprets@corasworks.net!

Despite my objections to mission statements (which all inevitably reduce to "all babies must eat"), I've written one for the Toronto SharePoint User Group to eliminate confusion and placed it on our website. After some rumination I removed the opening line which read "TSPUG is a place where SharePoint geeks learn from each other," to leave what you find below (mainly because I couldn't distill "learn together" to "all babies must eat," but also because a group of geeks is correctly a "gaggle" and it's too late to change the logo).  But if the members demand it, I'll put it right back in.

I've been following MS sociologist Marc Smith's work for a few years now. In a nutshell, Marc's task is to mine data for socially-relevant information, and he's written some interesting papers on virtual communities.

On Wednesday in the MSDN Excel blog there was a nice piece on the integration of the new Excel Server and SharePoint. This was actually part 11 (of x) in a lengthy series on the Excel Server being released with Office 12.

You can now stay up-to-date on the various User Group meetings around town by surfing to: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/torontoug/

The Toronto Code Camp is a great event for developers to learn new tricks for .NET. I'm delivering a session (January 14, 1:00 to 2:15) on one of my favourite new features -- MSBuild and Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio.

First Jan Tielens created SmartPart as a way of quickly deploying any ASP.NET control as a Web Part. Then WSS SP2 made it possible to upgrade your WSS boxes to run on ASP.NET v2, though without being able to take advantage of v2 features.