So you have decided you want to get into SharePoint, but you find out that you need to have a pretty strong machine to run it. Actually the latest SharePoint 2010 needs 6 GB of RAM as a starting point to run well and a 64 bit Windows 2008 operating system. You could actually learn [...]
Filed under: Programming on November 14th, 2011 | No Comments »
Looks like Microsoft is going to start integrating Hadoop based services in its server and database products. The services will be implemented in Windows Server, Azure and SQL Server 2012. Hadoop open source project which is if I may say for cloud and distributed computing came to the picture as I remember when Yahoo announced [...]
Filed under: Programming on October 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
Windows Live Essentials comes with lot of awesome applications. My favorite is Windows Live Photo Gallery. Nice way of organizing and sharing your photos. Most favorite feature is facial recognition, which let you find photos by faces. After adding photos it starts recognizing faces and ask you to tag the persons in the photos. After [...]
Filed under: Programming on June 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
Recently I faced a problem when I was deploying a project on a remote server. Locally my ASP.Net web application was working like breeze, but when I deployed it on a remote server the problem appeared. When the user try to generate a report selecting a date range and hit go, the user gets an [...]
Filed under: Programming on June 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As a good programmer you should be thinking about the resources your software uses and be as gentle as possible on the Computer’s memory. With C# you would be probably clearing the objects you no longer need from the memory using the Dispose method. But if you dispose a Windows Form in C#, the whole [...]
Filed under: Programming on January 11th, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Just an hour before letting the employees hit the survey link on our Sharepoint server, the department changed their mind and they doesn’t want the Single Choice for each question Survey I did. They wanted to change the type of the survey from Multiple radio buttons choices for each question(Which returns one Choice) to Scale Survey (GridChoice Survey in Sharepoint terms or [...]
Filed under: Programming on May 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sharepoint Services is awesome new framework from Microsoft. And these days where I work, I mostly do Sharepoint 2007 and MOSS development. I got this request where they wanted a Survey. Sharepoint does have survey, but it lacks statistics on the survey. In their Survey, the Choices for all the questions are identical. For example [...]
Filed under: Programming on April 28th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I was trying to make a Gadget for Vista sidebar, and this is what I came up with, the Araby Search Gadget. These Gadgets are like small software, not electronic kind of Gadget Araby is a new cool search engine which I think is promising for Arabic content searching. I heard about the people who [...]
Filed under: Programming on March 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was really very excited when I saw this contest! They have cool prizes. Xboxs, Microsoft press books (worth $1700!), and portable media center every Bi-week, and that’s not all!They have the biggest prize which is $25000 – wow. The contest is spread in 8 Modules …. It is like each Module has a week [...]
Filed under: Programming on April 27th, 2005 | No Comments »
I was looking around on the net for what is the next ASP.Net 2 is about, and I was really excited about it. ASP.Net will have much more new features like : – New Server Controls. ASP.NET 2.0 introduces over 50 new server controls. – Themes and Skins. The themes and skins features in ASP.NET [...]
Filed under: Programming on April 24th, 2005 | No Comments »
