Smart Phones Named After FRUITS

I still didn’t get it why they insist on naming the smart phones fruit names. Life was much easier when Apples, Blackberries, Mangoes were only fruits. I tried to find out the real reason behind the names, and here what i got: Why Apples are called Apples? In 1976 , Steve Jobs  and Steve Wozniak wanted to start…

Team Foundation Server vs. Visual SourceSafe

Wikipedia defines Source control as “Revision control is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information.” In other words: Source control allows distributed work in teams of any size, at different locations, while avoiding conflicts in source code changes. There are two famous source control software by Microsoft: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server. Here is the definition for…

Why its called a “bug” in your program

A “bug” in a computer program or system is a common term used to describe an error, flaw or a mistake that produces wrong results… Usually bugs arise from mistakes and error made by people in their program’s source code. But the question remains, why it is called a bug? In 1947, computers used relays…

Why ASP Cookies are called Cookies ?

Have you ever wondered why we use the term “Cookies” in ASP ? Well that question didn’t pop up into my mind until one of my students asked me why do we call them like that? When I checked for the history of cookies, nothing was clear enough about the origin of this name. But…

Google Map Interesting Step to follow

Google Maps directions can be cool if we follow them step by step, Go to Google Maps . and click “Get Directions” above left link. Type Taiwan as the first location and China as the 2nd location…. Scroll down and read STEP 23 of the directions. Now if you type Tokyo, Japan as first location, and China as the second location Read…

New Policy in IT Companies

NEW OFFICE POLICY Dress Code: 1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to your salary. 2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we will assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise. 3) If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so…

Working with Web Part zones in SharePoint Designer 2007

Microsoft SharePoint Designer is a specialized HTML editor and web design freeware for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites and web pages.  SharePoint Designer features focuses on designing and customizing Microsoft SharePoint websites. What we can do with the SharePoint Designer : Creating/editing SharePoint Master Pages and site wide Cascading Style Sheets. Changing layout of SharePoint Pages and creating Data View Web Parts and…

Introduction to SharePoint 2007

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This tool was developed to created a shared environment between users and allow them to share documents, reports, announcements, schedules, calendars, and other Microsoft Office files… History Of SharePoint This first version is called Windows SharePoint Services…

Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008 using WSPBuilder Extensions

WSPBuilder Extensions is the tool used to develop SharePoint applications using Visual Studio 2008. This tool made the development of SharePoint applications much easier, and stopped the manual deployment of the assemblies and manually creating the manifest.xml file. Using this tool, all you need is to build, deploy and run your SharePoint application via Visual Studio 2008. For…