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 »
Recently I updated Connectify to version 3.1 and it just stopped working. After sometime of trial and error I found out that Avast Antivirus(I have Avast Internet Security) was blocking some essential ports which Avast uses. Basically what needs to be done are two things: Enable the Internet Sharing mode in the Firewall settings Enable [...]
Filed under: Software on October 26th, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Just wanted to share a few tips about reducing your mobile bill. So far we got two Mobile providers in Syria which are almost identical. SyriaTel and MTN. SMS It is not just in Syria, but in a lot of countries Mobile companies still charges a lot for SMS despite how simple it is. Lately [...]
Filed under: Syria on July 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »
After upgrading my old machine, I started installing my Development tools. One of the tools I use is Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for creating Databases and Business Intelligence. From my experience that tool is not very CPU or RAM friendly . It runs a lot of services like the Reporting service, Integration Services…etc. I didn’t [...]
Filed under: Software on September 26th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I remember the day I received my AMD Athlon 64 PC, I was ecstatic! Taking photos of it from the inside and outside. Man I was so proud of it. It had an MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R motherboard, 512MB DDR RAM, GeForce Fx 5200 128MB and an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor. I got it in [...]
Filed under: Technology on September 22nd, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you are like me behind a Microsoft ISA server proxy on a domain network or any other type of proxy, you will find problems getting the Linux applications Synaptic package manager or apt-get to work. The best way I came across to solve this issue is to use a software called ntlmaps. This application [...]
Filed under: Software on October 6th, 2009 | 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 »
This is how I solved a problem which a lot of people are facing when they try connecting Windows Vista computer to a Flat Panel like LCD through the DVI output – you get “No Signal” or such a message from your TV. I did a lot of research about this, and it seems to [...]
Filed under: Software on April 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think everything is going mobile, and Opera Mini is one very nice piece of software for your mobile! I totally love it! It works on many mobile types, check this place here for officially supported devices: HERE This Mini browser has many features I liked, but there is one which is really impressive which [...]
Filed under: Software on December 2nd, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft Word. Just download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word allowing you to: * Publish to your blog * Save drafts * Edit posts Download the add-in from here: http://buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword.html Cya Hasan Bazerbashi
Filed under: Software on September 18th, 2005 | No Comments »
The Race to Linux challenges Visual Studio developers to port existing ASP.NET applications to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Grasshopper, Mono, PHP, Macromedia, etc.). The winners of each of the three races will win an Xbox 360. In addition, contestants using Grasshopper will also qualify to win an Xbox 360 game of [...]
Filed under: Internet on September 18th, 2005 | No Comments »
Offecial Google Toolbar for Firefox is finally out and availble for downloading. It looks like that Google is more open minded about Open Source projects more than its other rivals. To download the Toolbar: http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/ Thanks Google Cya.
Filed under: Software on August 1st, 2005 | 2 Comments »
