October has been the busiest month yet on Developer Exchange, with an array of new content around Cloud Computing, simultaneous with announcements at our Partners 2009 conference. Where to start? Firstly, Mike Riordan introduces the Teradata Express 13.0 family, which is available in Windows and VMware versions.

It was back to school here at the Developer Exchange world domination headquarters, and it was indeed a busy month of September. We rolled out more Viewpoint screencasts, including an overview of portlets and pages, and an excellent introduction to Viewpoint's revolutionary Rewind feature.

We've tweaked the RSS feed mechanism so that it's easier to follow what's going on via your RSS reader. This is probably most useful if you're subscribed to the DevX forums feeds, where there's a lot of activity, and you're particularly interested in viewing that activity through the lens of threading.

It may be summertime and the living easy, and it's true that several regular contributors were spotted sporting conspicuous tans, but August was still a productive month on DevX.

We introduced our first video screencast, an overview of the Filtered Queries portlet in Viewpoint 13.0.1. We intend this to be the first in a ongoing series of screencasts. What prompted this particular screencast is the desire to showcase the power, beauty, and general awesomeness of the latest release of Viewpoint. Michelle Corona gives more detail in the Top 10 New Features of Viewpoint 13.0.1, including spiffy new portlets like Viewpoint Monitoring, SQL Scratchpad, Space Usage and Lock Viewer. Viewpoint's new portlets keep Teradata so far in front of the competition in web-based database management that it's almost cruel.

We launched the Developer Exchange forums earlier this month, and after much pestering from the community, we've now added RSS feeds for the forums. There are feeds for each forum, as well as a combined feed for all forums. Subscribe to the RSS feeds by clicking on the RSS icons for each forum. Coming soon: more email notifications for the forums.

As promised a while back, the Developer Exchange is now hosting Teradata's technical discussion forums. We will eventually be shutting down all the technical forums at the legacy site, so please start posting your topics into the new forums. Note that some of the non-technical forums will continue to be hosted at the previous location. For posting guidelines, a general introduction to the new forums, or to give feedback, please see this forum topic.