October 2007 Entries

Qeisar Aminpur Died at 48

 

Qeisar Aminpur was a teacher for all of us...
TEHRAN, Oct. 30 (MNA) -- Contemporary poet Qeisar Aminpur died of heart failure at Dey Hospital in Tehran this morning morning.
Qeisar Aminpour was born in 1958 in the southern Iranian city of Dezful. After obtaining his high school diploma in Dezful he moved to Tehran where he continued his education. He received a doctorate from the University of Tehran in 1997.
From 1988 he became the editor in chief of the young adult’s magazine Sorush. He was also professor at the University of Tehran and Alzahra University. He resigned from editorship of Sorush in 2002 when he became a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.
His collections of poetry include “The Respiration of Morning”, “In the Sun’s Alley”, “Poetry of the 10th Day’s Noon”, “Sudden Mirrors”, “All Flowers are All Sunflowers” and “The Grammar of Love”.

Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server

 

Experts say that migrations from Unix to Linux have slowed down because all the low-hanging fruit has now been picked.

Office Communications Server 2007 Technical Reference

 

This document provides in-depth technical information on the components, protocol and architecture of Office Communications Server.

Titan Workflow Screencasts

 

You might have a look at 3 Titan (CRM 4.0) workflow screencasts here.

Top 10 Strategic Technologies for '08

 

Gartner has selected top 10 strategic technolgoies for 2008 as bellow:
  • Green IT
  • Unified Communications
  • Business Process Modeling
  • Metadata Management
  • Virtualization 2.0
  • Mashup & Composite Apps
  • Web Platform & WOA
  • Computing Fabric
  • Real World Web
  • Social Software

SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP (CTP)

 

Download the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP CTP for October 2007, a PHP 5 extension that allows for the reading and writing of SQL Server data from within PHP scripts.

October 2007 Web Servers Survey

 

IIS is moving slowly toward Apache and it will gain it soon... They are just now 10% different in market share which decreases to 7% when it comes to active web sites. Check this month's Netcraft Web Server Survey.

DotNetPanel Windows Server 2008, IIS 7 and FTP 7 Support

 

Recently DotNetPanel team, managed becoming a Microsoft Certified Partner and now in their latest DNP 2.2.0 is supporting Windows Server 2008, IIS 7 and FTP 7 as new providers of their great Hosting Control Panel. Keep up the work!

STUDYING: Introducing Windows Server 2008

 

Yesterday I just started reading the Microsoft Press, Introducing Windows Server 2008 by Mitch Tulloch.

The Top 10 Reasons Web Sites Get Hacked

 

Find out top 10 reasons web sites get hacked.
Who cares in Iran for a web site to be hacked? No one! Right now website are solely used as an online catalog.

.NET Framework Source Code Licensing Method

 

It will be released under Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL) which means you just can view; the term 'Open Source' can't be used for it. Just you can view the source for debugging of your own application's purposes.

Releasing of .NET Framework Source Code

 

That's true. Scott just announced they will be releasing .NET Framework Source Code. Find out more here.

Unified Communications in South Korea

 

Microsoft and Sylantro are going to host the first Unified Communications Services in South Korea.
This might not be of your interest as it is happening everywhere... I just wanted to add, we will in Iran looking for GPRS in our great carrier...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Embedded Workflows

 

Stefano gonna give some more details on the new CRM 4.0 (Titan) with the great built-in Workflow abilities.

Response Point System Pricing

 

Find the Microsoft's Response Point pricing here. The first set would cost $2,500 for 4 phones and one base unit. Doesn't look that expensive... comparing the Asterisk solutions though.