Kit Kai's Tech Blog

If you like the photosynth, please vote. Thanks!

2010-03-18T01:01:00-07:00

Hi all, Together with two other friends, Tan Chee and Alvin Lau, we formed a team and took part in Photo360 , a photosynth contest organised by Microsoft Singapore. There are two ways to win, one is the best synth, while the other is the most popular synth. If you like the synth we have done, please help by voting. Thanks! The area we synth is the Kranji War Memorial. Its a challenging place to synth, as the graves makes the place repeating, and requires lots of details for PhotoSynth to successfully...(read more)

Some things to take note when migrating MOSS 2007 definitions to SPS 2010, note 1

2009-12-01T08:13:00-08:00

I'm in the process of migrating some of my discussion forum work from MOSS 2007 to SPS 2010, in preparation for two presentation. One is IW Community organised by Malaysia SharePoint usergroup, while the other is CTU 2009 II , organised by Singapore Community. When deploying the content type definitions using sandbox solution (I love this!!!), I get an error. Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Key cannot be null. Parameter name: key Was looking at what did the product...(read more)

Singapore’s 50 Successful Developers

2009-07-22T01:15:00-07:00

Are you an unsung hero? Are you a developer who has stories that need to be told? http://geeksengaged.com/blogs/geeksengaged/archive/2009/07/21/singapore-s-50-successful-developers.aspx...(read more)

Various blog entries from product team on new / improved features for office 2010

2009-07-21T01:38:00-07:00

OneNote http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2009/07/15/onenote-2010-what-s-new-for-you.aspx InfoPath http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2009/07/15/what-s-new-in-infopath-2010.aspx will update as I discover (not actively finding though) new blog entries......(read more)

Two reasons (so far) why I would not uninstall Office 14 and return to Office 12...

2009-07-16T07:26:00-07:00

1. Outlook can connect to more than one exchange server! Just close, go to mail in control panel, and just add a new exchange account! It no longer stops you! :) 2. Translation! All I did was mouse over, and office translates it to the language I choose previously. Have not tested entire paragraph to see how accurate is, but I'm sure this would come in handy when working with off shore offices...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peak

2009-07-13T06:27:00-07:00

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx Go view the video... Exciting times ahead!...(read more)

Support your Microsoft community for a good cause...

2009-05-18T02:38:00-07:00

More details here ,...(read more)

I think Microsoft makes history again, with first beta software with a movie trailer!

2009-05-13T09:11:00-07:00

http://www.office2010themovie.com/...(read more)

Damn impressed with Virtual CD!

2009-05-05T19:33:00-07:00

I'm attending training this week, and I'm using virtualised Windows 2003 R2 given by the training company. I'm also using Windows 7 on my laptop, hence I need to upgrade the integration services. During the upgrade, Windows 2003 R2 dvd is required. I was thinking to myself, oh no! Must download from MSDN over 3G! :( Then I remember I was mounting ISO using Virtual CD over network at home whenever I'm reinstalling my OS. Then I was wondering if I could do the same over internet......(read more)

Vista SP2 as guest on HyperV

2009-05-04T08:36:00-07:00

For those playing with Vista SP2 (why am I doing this??!!) on Hyper-V, and no matter what they do, integration services just don't get installed properly, don't panick... Pop in the SP2 for Windows 2008, wait damn long (30 min to 1 hour) for the update to complete, then install the new integration services, and you are good to go....(read more)

CAS, help to deliver more secure code?

2009-04-05T19:16:00-07:00

Many preach that deployment of assembly to GAC is a potential security breach, as codes are run with full trust. So many advocate deploying your assemblies to the Bin directory and use CAS to give them the necessary rights to run. I've been working on a customisation to improve wiki and forum functionality in SharePoint to better support a technical community. I decided to give CAS a try, and deploy to Bin (my work are mostly POCs, hence I just deploy to GAC). It was difficult at the beginning...(read more)

One of the few reasons I don't believe in Cloud Computing... Yet...

2009-04-02T20:12:00-07:00

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1308&tag=nl.e539 This is already the second time information is leaked from Google. So if you have NDA information, or company secrets inside Google, be warned!...(read more)

7 weeks old Little Caleb say "Hello" to you all!

2009-03-31T19:39:00-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=86101991840...(read more)

Live Mesh, my initial thoughts

2009-03-29T20:13:00-07:00

After reading Andrew Connell's post on Live Mesh, I've decided to give it a try, and see if it can replace Live Sync, which is working very well on my computers, except that it doesn't do mobile sync, or web sync. Basically, I'm looking at Live Mesh to meet two short comings of Live Sync 1. Web Sync of certain folders, so that I can have access to some files outside my own workstations. 2. Ability to sync sub folders to someone else. E.g. I've set up sync for community projects...(read more)

DUH: Checking if the person have certain rights before rendering certain information

2009-03-19T17:45:00-07:00

Pardon my yet another very "expressive" post. Wasted quite a bit of precious time, especially when the work I'm doing is community work, and a new born baby is competing with this precious resource. (More to come!) Again, SDK says if you want to check if the person have approval rights (CAML), then render certain stuff, you use <RightsGroup PermApproveItems="Required" />I use this without really testing it in an existing field, and now there is something wierd going...(read more)