SUNNYVALE, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash. — 29 July, 2009 — Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

CMS 2.0: It's not just about content management. It's about managing business processes and having a vibrant and functional content lifecycle.

I was just studying some more about Agile and it reminded me of the Agile Manifesto.

Just note that Agile is not a methodology, in my opinion Agile is more an approach of thinking. What we can it “System Thinking”.

Agile is all you need for future not getting from what you had from past.

One more: Agile is not for software developers solely, we have many concepts such as Agile Organizations and even PMBOK to Agile.

Try it… you will like it.

MicroHoo going to be announced within 24 hours.

49 Free Windows Mobile Applications for PocketPC + SmartPhone

How to get list of countries in C#.

After a long time struggling not to wear glasses, I am currently wearing one and to be honest… What has made me surprised is the color of Windows Vista. It is much more interesting that it used to be :-)

As of 17% decrease in Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter this year, the reason has been thought of Windows Vista more than Windows itself. People looks pretty more interested in Windows 7 as of Windows XP. So, we can expect Microsoft’s rapid growth in revenues again by releasing Windows 7.

AP, TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway during its landing in northeast Iran and crashed, shredding the cockpit into a tangled mass of wreckage and killing 17 people, the state news agency said.

In a project, we need to capture the whole transactions of the database for further notes. I implemented a solution while ago using triggers etc… But SQL Server 2008 is providing a great capability built in called Change Data Capture which can find how to implement it here.

BTW, we are planning to move our SQL Server Farm in our hosting company to SQL Server 2008 hopefully soon… I’ll keep my readers posted here.

As of running the new Live@Edu service, Microsoft is now running a new Education Labs Site. You can find out more on it here.

If you think R&D on a complex algorithm is not hard, take a moment and study this article.

Rendering Invoice Items and Reorder them using JQuery.

We all should get ready for Windows 7…

As I have enough experience in Project Management and have passed a course on PMBOK, I have started studying PMP for my career. I suggest you studying VTC PMP as your source, using the Flash Cards and for sure; study PMBOK at least 2 times!

Wish me luck, I am willing to prepare for the exam within the end of summer and take it somewhere in UAE.

Simply run the following the commands against the database which is showing as 'Restricted User':

ALTER DATABASE database SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
GO
ALTER DATABASE database SET MULTI_USER
GO

If you prefer registering a skin globally across your application, you can use this.

If you are trying to use Telerik RadControls on IIS 7.0 with an application pool in Pipeline Mode, either use this guide, or simply turn back to classic mode for your application pool.

Smashing Magazine has introduced new futures of HTML 5.0 in a post.

Guide on how to have a different look & feel for your checkbox and radiobuttons.

A CSS Guide on how to stick a footer to bottom of your page.

CMS Wire and SharePoint 2010: A Business Collaboration Platform.

Andrew Nusca and the fact that PCs need a brand; Microsoft's retail stores might be the answer to that.

Microsoft is actually running them to have a consumer brand in addition to it's distribution brand.

The latest version of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit v4.0 has been released. The application's use is to discover your network.

 

Microsoft has updated it's business model for Windows Azure in Worldwide Partner Conference 2009.

An example to calculate for two servers can be found here.

According to REUTERS, around 168 innocent people have been killed in a plane crash just hours ago.

May they rest in peace.

Hehe, well-said from Steve Ballmer on Google Chrome:

Who knows what this thing is. To me, the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting (in) that it won't happen for a year and a half and they already announced an operating system.

I second what Jeff Junk is saying about VisualSVN.

We have implemented VisualSVN and using the free Windows Clients available and have awesome Source Control in our company. Specially the fact that it works quite fast via VPN, it makes it a worth replace to Visual Source Safe.

Find out more on the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint 2010 here.

You can view/download Free Patents within the following links:

http://www.FreePatentsOnline.com

http://www.SumoBrain.com

I guess it's time to move our applications for having more Rich UI using Silverlight rather than playing Ajax...

This article focuses on pragmatic approaches for effectively navigating this new environment and helping architects to become more proficient, capable, and skilled.

Guide on how to create a simple include in ASP.NET

The OASIS CMIS TC works to standardize a Web services interface specification that will enable greater interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. CMIS uses Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable rich information to be shared across Internet protocols in vendor-neutral formats, among document systems, publishers and repositories, within one enterprise and between companies.

Micorosft DevShaped released their first FREE ebook, featuring 17 useful articles.

Guide on how to solve the rendering issue of asp:Menu of ASP.NET in IE8, Safari & Chrome.

Google has released it's Google Apps lastly, which is not free anymore, $50 per user.

Microsoft is also considering for a response within next Monday.

Although benchmarking is a known business around the world, we have no benchmarks in our software firm.

I am always thinking to run a benchmark and get together compare lists among all the softwares in Iran; but who knows I can accomplish that when.

I am inviting anyone who might be interested to join this to me by contacting me via blog.

I was just wondering how to visit rayaneh.com website. The funny part is that it looks as it detects my IE 8.0 installation as mobile browser and I am only using Opera as my other browser which the website is shown horribly in that. Now how to view the website when I am at home? Just wait for tomorrow so I can check it via my office PC!

List of books you as an IT Manager should study.