After spending yesterday afternoon in BI training at the local MS Office, I'm spending all day today and tomorrow in BizTalk 2004 training. Matt Fangman, our local MS BizTalk expert, is cramming a four day hands on lab into two days. Whew! I still found time to find a few tidbits...

• Data Storage Design, Backup, and Restore for Windows SharePoint Services - A new whitepaper on TechNet about deploying and configuring WSS Environments. [via Tim Heuer's Weblog]
• Python Runs Fast on .NET - Sounds like Iron Python, a new implementation for .NET is screaming! Faster than CPython-2.3.
• WTL 7.1 - This new release provides full support for VS.NET 2003 and adds support for Windows CE.
• Lean Software Development Review - I'm not sure if this is a review of the book or just an overview, but it is a good read. There are a number of excellent links at the end of the article.