Yama Kamyar

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March 2007 - Posts

Screen Recording and Presentation

I wanted to create some tutorials I wanted to share with my community. I googled some keywords and came across Camtasia Studio 4.0 which was exactly what I was looking for.

It is $299.00 for its full version.
Trial: http://www.techsmith.com/download/trials.asp

Take a look at the tutorial.
Tutorial: http://video.techsmith.com/blog/screencasts/tss/dv/30d30dreorg/CS4Training.html

Posted: Mar 29 2007, 02:29 PM by Yama | with 1 comment(s)
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Blog CS 2.1

In progress at: http://myblog.yamabiz.com/blogs/yama/default.aspx...

Amongst the many new features added to blogging administration tools I really liked the ability to create rules to block spammers, the ability to block IP address, and the many other features added to the new version of Community Server to make it a lot more manageable to the moderator of a blog to administrator their own content...

I would like to know if there are T-SQL scripts available to upgrade my blog posts... I am thinking about creating a SSIS package in SQL 2005 to migrate data from my old SQL 2000. But then again why try to reinvent the wheel when there must be some tools already out there to accomplish exactly what I am trying to do. So for today on my to do tasks for the day, among the many other things, is to find the wheel.

Community Server
Today I am upgrading to the Community Server 2.1 SP2 (CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)) Personal Edition using SQL Server 2005. Did you know WROX has published a book focued around nothing but Telligent's Community Server.

Wow! Just finished installing and playing around with it and the database using SQL 2005. I look awesome! The use of AJAX facinated me. This goes beyond my expectations.. I truly recommend you guys. Telligent you guys are my inspiration.

Posted: Mar 24 2007, 06:24 PM by Yama | with 144 comment(s)
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Google Web Accelerator
Has anyone ever used Web Accelerator from Google? As you might have guessed it is a great tool to index and store cache of web pages you commonly go to. The engineering behind this add-in tool allows you to surf the internet faster than what your connection speed will allow. The trick is kind of like indexing your database for faster response. Just imagine a non-clustered and non indexed database schema. It will look like a man trying to run on Moon versus another on Earth performance wise.
 
The only thing was I had totally forgotten the Accelerator was running on the background of my browsers and when I updated a background image on my blog I wasn't seeing any of the changes taking effect... Man I had tried it all; clearing my browser caches, cookies, and you name it cache, without a slight change on the background.
 
This naturally had to happen today to me... moi... Although I created a ticket with the support team of my hosting website with this issue we still could not resolve why this was happening. I conceded it was enough time spend on this issue and I went dine at my parents house. There, after a very healthy and delicious dinner, I decided to take a look what it would look like on IE 6.0 SP2 version. You can imagine I had already pointed my fingers to you know who: IE 7.0. To my relief the background was different on their browser. On my way back home the light bulbs turned on. I had left the Google Web Accelerator on and it might have index in its own way my blog background, style sheet, scripts, and whatever magic it has under its sleeves. So like a brave man with a new light of hope when I got back home I went to my favorite Dell laptop and turned off the Web Accelerator then once again cleared the cache from my IE 7.0 browser. And voilà case closed. IE 7.0 sorry man.
Posted: Mar 22 2007, 08:36 PM by Yama | with 52 comment(s)
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.NET 3.5 Preview Has Been Released
If you have not even updated your Visual Studio 2003 to the 2005 you may be for bits of a catching up to do. Just about a month ago Microsoft launched a preview to its new .NET 3.5 code named "ORCAS".

If you have fallen behind and still on the .NET 1.1 version I think you are bound to be in for some big surprises when you will have to switch to the newer more robust version of Visual Studio .NET 2005. Not only has there been changes to the IDE but also to many programming features... Although anyone can get a fresh start learning the new trick I suggest you seriously start thinking of beginning playing with the new features added to .NET 2005 IDE. If you or your company are not in plans to buy the new Visual Studio .NET 2005 you can get many of the feature if you were to install their respective, either VB.NET or C#, Express editions.
 
Visual Studio code name “Orcas” -- learn more
 
 Matt Winklers blog and Somasegars blog
 
The readme file is posted here.
Posted: Mar 21 2007, 04:36 PM by Yama | with 3 comment(s)
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