Updated Schedule posted. 

In the past year I've done a lot of speaking at Code Camps up and down the East Coast and Tulsa Techfest which was a blast.  At a conference in DC I meet Becky Isserman from Kansas City area and we kept in touch and after awhile she joined the B&R team.  When she told me about the Kansas City "Day of .NET" I was really excited about it and told her if they had room I would love to come out and speak on SharePoint or InfoPath.  I was delighted to here that they had a spot still open for the SharePoint track and told her to count me in.  Tonight (Thursday) I made the trip from New York City to Kansas City and now getting ready for my session on Saturday morning.  The session that I'm speaking on is "Building and deploying custom SharePoint Application pages (_layouts) with Visual Studio 2008" and the first time that I did this session it was really bad (sorry NOVA) because I didn't spend much time on it until the day of but now I've done it a couple more times and it's really getting close to being a polished presentation and I'm feeling that Saturday is going to be the best one so far.  There are some really great people speaking at this event and the full schedule is below.  I'm really glad that I have the first session because then I can attend all the other sessions and not worry about my presentation.  It's time for me to get some sleep so I can be semi productive tomorrow.  If you're planning on attending the event on Saturday, I hope that to bump into you and talk some SharePoint.

Cheers 

Today I was building some simple deployment CMD files for a project and one of them was for creating a site.  I used the stsadm createsite command and picked all my parameters that I wanted and hit enter.  Below is the command that I used.

stsadm-o createsite -url "http://servername/fc/forms central" -owneremailname@somewhere.com -ownerlogin domain\username -lcid 1033 -sitetemplate SPSPORTAL#0 -title "Forms Central" 

After a few seconds it came back with the below error message and this definitely caught me by surprise.

Another site already exists at http://servername.  Delete this site before attempting to create a new site with the same URL, choose a new URL, or create a new inclusioin at the path you originally specified.

After reading the error message a couple times I knew the first part wasn't true because there was no site at that URL path but then it dawned on me that the second part of the error message was the answer to my problem.  The URL that I specified has a "Managed Path" and I forgot to create it before running the createsite command.  So, I went out to the online STSADM technical reference guide and found the stsadm addpath command.  I opened up the CMD file and add the following line above the createsite command and reran it and everything worked just fine.

stsadm-o addpath -url http://servername/fc -type wildcardinclusion 

I know this wasn't really a hard one but at first when I read the error message it wasn’t making any sense but after ignoring the first part of the error message the second part turned the light on for me.

Cheers