Knowledge helps. Knowing how to "google" something helps too (sorry for the bias, I just never seem to find what I am looking for on search.live.com).

 

As the SharePoint 2007 documentation is still short on a lot of things, I still seem to end up relying a lot on blogs, when in need of looking something up I don't deal with on a daily basis.

 

Instead of simply pasting my by now ultra-long Favorites list of SharePoint-related blogs here, let me introduce them over the coming weeks with short posts that also tell what I like about these guys and gals.

 

Sahil Malik's Blog covers a broad spectrum of SharePoint topics, mostly on the development side. In some of his recent posts he's covered the integration of WCF and SharePoint, which sounds really promising to me. He also writes good articles that he references from his site. The last one is on the WCF & SharePoint topic.

 

Next up is Waldek Mastykarz: he also provides lots of development-related SharePoint information. WCM is a major topic on his blog. One of my favorites amongst his posts is his endeavour to extend the valuable Content Query Web Part.

 

Last but not least is Paul Culmsee. His blog posts provide in-depth information and are just fun to read. As an example: his series on SharePoint Branding covers the complexity of branding options in SharePoint very well.