This week was the first, of the many weeks, abroad in 2007. And I must say that the start was excellent. Croatia seems to be a very nice country, young and driven. I of course must admit that I was not able to see a lot besides the hotel, the training room, the restaurant, the Microsoft building, and yes, a little bit of the nightlife. But it was very nice to see participants from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Roemania, Lithuania, Latvia, Greece and not to forget Poland :), having a good time together both in the classroom as well as outside of it. Thanks Roman for being an excellent host.

Yes, I will  go back to Croatia. They have their annual WinDev conference end of April and it's on my agenda. Actually, the next couple of months are going to be filled with conferences: Berlin, DevDays in Belgium, SharePoint Advisor in Anaheim, TechEd US in Orlando, SEF 2007 in Sweden and WinDev in Croatia.

Fitz pointed me to a nice site: www.dropload.com. If you ever have to send a big file to somebody, you can use this site to upload the file, keep it there for max 7 days, and have somebody pick it up.

Of course the wildcard search posting is causing some debates but that is how it should be. Sometimes we have to be critical, even if you don't like to express negative feelings about something that means a lot to you. And believe me, everything flows ... also this one.. and it is going to flow in the positive direction.

Many many interesting questions this week and I have learned a lot of stuff. For example, I finally got around the problem in RTM concerning the variations label not getting displayed on a page that has variations. In the variationslabelsmenu.ascx in the \12\Template\ControlTemplates, the line responsible for showing the menu is commented out. Credits to this posting for solving the problem. Just remove the <%-- ... --%>.

And I have good news regarding the book. I got the permission from MSPress to go for the 700 pages instead of the 448 pages popping up on many sites. That is good news because I am way over that amount already and still have 2 more chapters to go. Trimming content is the thing I don't like to do.

Next week is Dubai and Cyprus.