Anith Gopal

You’d think that, with only a couple of different letters, “documentary” and “documentation” were reasonably similar things.

Is it really possible to love jQuery? It certainly seems like it is from the numerous blog and forum posts I’ve read while trying to figure out how to make it do some fairly simple things.

I suppose I could start with a bad pun by saying that you’ve had your hols, and now it’s time for some HOLs instead! Of course, this assumes you understand that “hols” is English shorthand for “holidays” and that “HOLs” is IT guidance shorthand for “Hands-On-Labs” (I wonder if people in the US have a shorthand word for “vacations”, or if – seeing they are typed rather than written by hand these days – that should be a shorttype word, or even just a shortword).

This week our group published the Outlook 2010 Auxiliary Reference , and updated the Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference ! The two references have been reorganized such that all content pertaining to MAPI for Outlook is now centralized in the Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference. The Outlook 2010 Auxiliary Reference contains documentation and samples for APIs that allow developers to extend Outlook outside of the Outlook object model without using MAPI.

Perhaps it’s just anecdotal evidence, but it seems like you often hear about people who are afraid of the countryside. For those of us brought up amongst fields, trees, and wildlife, this seems an extraordinary concept; though I guess – as I have a deep-rooted fear of cities – the converse is not as unlikely as you might imagine. Personally, I hate the bustle, noise, and smell of city centres such as London and Birmingham, and I can’t imagine living in the midst of a constant rush of people, cars, and trucks; and the torrid sense of panic that life in general seems to require in these kinds of places….( read more )

We are calling for papers on Virtualization for the 24th Architecture Journal. If you are interested in participating, submit your proposal by Thursday, March 11 end of day . Sign up for other newsletters | Unsubscribe | Update your profile Virtualization Call for Papers February 2010   VIRTUALIZATION PRACTICES AND TECHNIQUES Call for Papers We are calling for papers on Virtualization for the 24th Architecture Journal.

Microsoft released environment scanning tool as download for the Assessment planning. As you know the goal of the assessment planning phase is to determine the techniques that will be used to discover applications and customizations that could be affected by an Office upgrade.This tool (along with documentation) assists a customer in the assessment phase of deployment. It identifies: Currently installed applications and installation environment Add-ins currently in use by Office clients Programs…( read more )

The CRM E2 team is pleased to announce the release of the white paper Field-level Security in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Options and Constraints, a component of the broader CRM E2 Nuts and Bolts article on Security and Authentication in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=471f8670-47b3-4525-b25d-c11a6774615c This document provides selected aspects of the conceptual application…( read more )

Despite being a writer by profession, and regularly castigating my colleagues for being recalcitrant in reviewing stuff I write, I actually dislike doing reviews myself. When I was an independent author (before I signed my life away to Microsoft), I was often approach by companies offering to pay me to write reviews of their products for their Web sites and literature

Setup PHP on your windows machine Setup the PHP Toolkit Setting up the PHP samples on IIS Running the sample ADO.NET Data Services PHP Sample Applications Walkthrough Setup PHP on your windows machine The following steps show you how to setup your windows machine to host PHP applications. We will be talking about hosting the only supported ( by MS Support ) PHP CGI application on IIS

If you’re looking for Microsoft Exchange Server & Outlook Standards, you can refer this MSDN article .This documentation is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications, computer language design and implementation art. Also for more information about Standards at Microsoft, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/standards/default.aspx ….( read more )

The Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference has been updated. I don’t have a list of everything that changed, so I’ll highlight one addition that’s pretty cool: the property definition stream . Long time readers might remember I mentioned this property before – it’s one of the properties you want to delete to kill a one-off form