This blog post is part of a larger series named “Be a Better Developer”. You can check out the intro, “Stop Being a Code Monkey” to get started from the beginning. Each post will have a link to the previous ones and a final summary post will contain links to all entries in the series. Does this sound familiar? It’s 4:00 PM on a workday and your team lead comes by and says, “We’ve been thinking about how we are going to deal with feature XYZ.

I noticed the following downloads on the MS Downloads RSS feed and thought they might come in handy one day. If you do a lot of PowerShell you might want to get these help files to see if you can utilize some of their functionality. PowerShell Help Files for: Office Web Apps Search Server 2010 Express SharePoint Foundation 2010 Project Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 I’m mainly posting them here so I can find them again later.

Earlier this week I upgraded my VM Workstation to 7 from 6.5. One of the benefits of this was supposed to be support for Windows Aero for Guest Win7 virtual machines. I needed to set a couple of things in order for Aero to even become enabled in my virtual machine since I was working with VMs I already had created. Ensure that you set the Virtual Machine Settings to Accelerate 3D Graphics in the Display settings for the VM.