WSS 3.0 SDK v1.5 released

The new version of Software Development Kit for WSS 3.0 is released today after 8 months of releasing v1.4 with OfficeServer SDK 1.4

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WSS 3.0 SP2 and MOSS 2007 SP2

WSS 3.0 SP2 & MOSS 2007 SP2 are expected in this month end….. Along with the update for all MS Office 2007 products...

Microsoft Office team has streamlined the release of Service Packs for all the MS Office products together, but what is the use in that ? Atleast server products and clients products can go differently ?

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Sharepoint Designer is Free now

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is now a FREE download. Just register and download a copy… Sharepoint Designer is the MS Office 2007 – version of Frontpage. No more frontpage, its only SPD.

Forget not to check the Related Resources section in the download page…

Sharepoint Designer Related Resources

1. Video of SharePoint Designer 2007 FAQ (6.2MB)
2. Video of SharePoint Designer 2007 FAQ (82.9MB)
3. Video of SharePoint Designer 2007 FAQ (16.8MB)

Service pack for Sharepoint Designer is also there… Download it…

Google launches a link/website for Indian Election 2009

Even the HOT Indian Election spree is now with Google too. They have launched a site (link) for the forthcoming Indian General Election 2009

Good to see the Google India team to do something that is going hot...
For sure Google could have seen the reports of the Search terms ( with respect to Indian Parliament Election) in Google Search engine which will be in Millions by now, as my site (ArasiyalTalk.com) itself is getting thousands of clicks a day from Google

http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/loksabha2009/

Using Credit cards

Credit card fraud is a big issue in India and abroad. I still know lot of people who never uses internet banking and earns more than a million rupee a year in IT field. Most of the time I have felt why these people are more reluctant?? Sometime back a colleague of mine used to give me money every week for booking him a rail ticket in IRCTC. He had a debit card, he was eligible for a Corporate Credit card but he never used those in the internet.

Even last week one of my ex-Manager who is yet to start a interior designing business came to my home to buy some softwares and domain name using my card in the internet. Lot of times I have used my cards for my friends’ purchase online.

But lot of Credit card based fraud are really making me to think twice before helping others to use my card... Visa & Master card gives a new way to secure your card information online called Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode. Most of the companies comes with their own way of securing or some good proven way to secure that. Nearly two years back I criticized in my blog about HSBC over killing the users by giving a security device.

 BBC claims that they have purchased UK residents credit card details from New Delhi. [More] This new issue and other stories are really making me to feel that those reluctant people are better!

Application Pages Vs Site Pages

Remember the difference between them in SharePoint (MOSS 2007)

Yesterday, somebody asked me the difference between the application page and site page in Sharepoint. Having developed five custom site and application pages in Sharepoint, I couldn't explain what exactly it is. I really got confused over time, as usual my brain was blank.

In a second after opening a SharePoint VS solution file, I got it. Just remember as the name indicates, Application pages can be used across SharePoint Web Applications and the Site pages are used across the Site(s). When you remember this, then you wont get confused. If its across applications then its the only _layout folder which is helping us. Wherein the site pages are the ones what we want to be specific for a site or to its contents and OOB example are AllItems.aspx, default.aspx etc.

Yes, I agree that working in a dozen of pages will also help you to remember, but in the beginning, even after a year,  lot of things in SharePoint is confusing and time consuming. Main reason behind this is our lack of basic understanding and poor memory. I strongly recommend every SharePoint developer to read the Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and a SharePoint administrator to read Microsoft SharePoint Services Administrator's Pocket Consultant.

 Multiple Inboxes for GMail

Last month Gmail Team announced a new GMail Lab feature called Multiple Inboxes. I really thought its about having Multiple Inboxes. Its not so. It wont allow you to see multiple Inboxes at the sametime. Its just a Multi-view or Multi-pane view of messages in some order or pattern. ie., You can create a view and define that to display all the mails labeled something, or from some account etc.

I have five accounts in Gmail (my old Gmail Id, other 3 ids for three different reasons created in the Google Apps - Kiruthik.com account). All the four are forwarded to the id mail-at-kiruthik.com. So mails from those account would reach this mail@kiruthik inbox.