Create a Master Page for SharePoint

I believe eneryone tried to create a master page for SharePoint and met some errors.Below is what you need to create a master page from scratch.
1. SharePoint Designer , create a new master page.
2. Add the below content placeholders
3. Add the master page in the master page library in your SharePoint Site Collection
4. Apply the master page to your sharepoint site,... and that's it..

Development Enviroment For SharePoint 2010

For all sharepoint developers, this is a nice article on how you can configure for development environment for SharePoint 2010.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx

Windows 7 phones

SharePoint 14 propable Features

i found a nice blog on the probable features of SharePoint 14...

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/About-SharePoint-14.aspx

SharePoint Conference 2009 announced

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

Viewing RSS feeds in Sharepoint RSS viewer Web Part

I have been asked about how to view RSS feeds in MOSS. Sharepoint has got a nice RSS webPart viewer which is quite simple to use.
1. Locate your RSS feed (e.g bbc)
2. Add the RSS viewer webpart to Sharepoint
3. Modify the web part properties to add the RSS feed

If you are behind a proxy , you will get a connection error. To resolve that:
Edit your web.config to add the following:

Microsoft Express

Nice stuffs on this Site. I think MS is trying to give more starter packages like SQL Express and Visual Studion Express to enable small & medium development.
Good Initiative
http://www.microsoft.com/express

With some interresting plug-ins like PopFly where you can create mashups without writing a line of code. With the mashup creator you can combine different web sites.
http://www.popfly.com/

Facebook DEv KIT is also available
http://www.microsoft.com/express/samples/facebook/Default.aspx