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Nice guys finish last !

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:08:00 +0000

No not at all..

The reason behind this is, the concept of “Nice guys finish last” which is followed by most in managing the project. It drives me crazy, and its totally unpleasant. It will set a false expectation to your team. If you are a manager and assigning a task to someone if he/she finishes it on time then it doesn’t mean that every time that the given task is simple. Never quantify the nature of work based on the time spent on that. Always rely on the result and rewrite your perception “Nice guys brings best results”.

MCTS again

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:14:00 +0000

This time with 70-630.

Sticky posts in SharePoint Discussion boards

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:30:00 +0000

If you have used SharePoint discussion board in your team site, then you would have wondered that there is no option to make the post as sticky.
By default SharePoint doesn't provide this facility, but it can be acheived easily with the out of box options available with the Discussion board list. After making this changes the discussion board will look like below.

Step 1 Create a Column in the list

Goto the list settings and create column.

Name the column as "Sticky", and choose as
checkbox (Yes/No). We are going to give the option to the owner of the post,
while creating the post whether it should be set as sticky or not.

Step 2 Create a View for Sticky posts

Goto the settings page and create the view and name its as "Sticky", set is as
public view

Another important thing in the Sticky view is changing the sort columns. First
sort coumn should be "Sticky", that is the intention of having the sticky posts.
Sticky posts should be always shown on the top and then followed by the Last
updated posts. So set the "Then sort by column" to Last Updated column. as indicated below.
Step 3 Selecting the Sticky view

Whereever we are showing the discussion board, that is the List View webpart.
Click on modify share webpart menu and change the selected view to "Sticky"
which we created in Step 2.

Now we have the Discussion board ready with the Sticky option.

All the posts which are marked as sticky will be shown on top always.

SharePoint object model performance tuning.

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:55:00 +0000

Today, I was looking into the performance tuning on our code,
I found this very useful to achieve some.
Although some of them are familiar before, its nice to recollect it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sowmyancs/archive/2008/10/26/best-practices-sharepoint-object-model-for-performance-tuning.aspx

PPT vs PPTX Search behaviour in SharePoint

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:37:00 +0000

Recently, I got a mail from my collegue describing a problem in SharePoint search.

Issue : We have a portal on MOSS 2007. Documents are standard office document types to pdf etc. I have a very unique situation during a search. Find attached ppts. One is pptx, and other ppt ( 97- 2003) , content wise both are same. When searching for “Case study I” it lists both ppt’s, but when searching for autoparts (this autoparts is content within a textboxin the ppt , slide 2), it lists only pptx. I cant figure out the reason for this behavior, any suggestions.
In fact, any keyword provided from the content in slide 2 does not bring the 97-2003 format of ppt

Content Crawling

SharePoint crawling process accesses and parses content and its properties, sometimes called metadata, to build a content index from which search queries can be served.

The result of successfully crawling content is that the individual files or pieces of content that you want to make available to search queries are accessed and read by the crawler. The keywords and metadata for those files are stored in the content index, sometimes called the index. The index consists of the keywords that are stored in the file system of the index server and the metadata that is stored in the search database. The system maintains a mapping between the keywords, the metadata associated with the individual pieces of content, and the URL of the source from which the content was crawled.

Lets come to the issue ...

Crawling content is sucessful incase of PPTX since Office 2007 uses New file formt called Office XML format which has lot of benefits one among them is effective search when compared to other previous MS office formats.
Textbox content are also stored as part of XML which was not available in the previous formats.

SharePoint 2010 prelim system requirements

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Do you know, SharePoint 2010 will require 64 bit OS.

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

Nice to read how MS folks give demo

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:19:00 +0000

http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2009/05/04/how-we-demo.aspx

Hide Blogger Navigation bar

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:22:00 +0000

I got a mail from anonymous reader how to hide the blogger navigation bar in blog site. Even though I'm feeling lazy I thought of writing reply to him.

Its very simple open the layout goto edit html then just add

#navbar-iframe { display:block }

before the "< / style>". thats it.

Hi....After long time

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:52:00 +0000

Well... Its quite long time since I visited blogger.
I was totally occupied with personal and professional work.
One big change in life, I'm no more single got married. Everything is different and enjoyable now.
Hope will keep posting...

I'm MCTS

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:21:00 +0000

I cleared the WSS 70-541 certification.

Calgary Winter !

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:25:00 +0000

Tea - Flashback

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Evening 3:00 Pm

Standing near the window, thinking about the past and sipping the tea in hand. In past myself, Thava, Gopi, Sangaran, Santy, Harish used to go to the tea shop near to our office and order for spl tea. We used to discuss about everything most of the time about the politics in office. Gone are the days, now I'm here in Canada.. Thava and Santy in chennai.. Gopi, Harish and Sangaran in US. Life has been changed.. Now standing near to this window somewhere in this downtown...
Everything is good here but can't be like those days standing in the road in Tnagar and siping tea. I miss them alot, as they do.

Muthu mani mala

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:30:00 +0000

Film : Chinna Gownder
Singers : SPB, P.Susheela
Music : Ilayaraja
Lyrics : RV Udayakumar
Song : Muthu mani mala

Muthu mani mala unne thottu thottu thalata
vekathula sela konjam vittu vittu porada
Ullathule nee thane uthami un per thane
oru nadavana poo thane puthu santhanamum nee thane

Muthu mani mala unne thottu thottu thalata....

Kolusu than mounam aaguma, manasu than pesuma
Megam than nilava mooduma mousu than korayuma

Nesapattu vantha pasa kodiku kasi pattu thantha rasave
vakapattu vantha vasa malare vanam kalayatha rosave

Thazam poovula veesum kathula, vasam thedi mama vaa

Muthu mani mala enne thottu thottu thalata
vekathula sela konjam vittu vittu porada

Kalile pota minji than kathula pesuthe
Kazhuthula pota thaali than kaviyam paduthe

Nethi chutti adum uchanthalaiku potu vechatharu naathane
Atthimara poovum acham paduma paka thunai yaaru neethane

Asapechula pathi moochula lesa thegam soodere

Muthu mani mala enne thottu thottu thalata
vekathula sela konjam vittu vittu porada
Ullathule nee thane uthamarum nee thane
thu nadavana poo thane puthu santhanamum nee thane
oru nadavana poo thane puthu santhanamum nee thane

Testing Rjesh Live !

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:29:00 +0000

This bulb.... Save our planet

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:36:00 +0000

We all care about our world, friends lets join our hands and spread this word..
And try to give better world to our next generation.

Error while activating publishing feature

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:24:00 +0000

Error :
I was trying to activate the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature through the ManageFeatures pages, but it threw me the access denied error.

Fix :
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>
stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url http://website

Run the above in the command prompt and then try activating the feature it will work, digging on the cause.. will post when I'm done.

Happy Vinayaka Chathurthi

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:27:00 +0000

New Google Chrome !

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:28:00 +0000

Google's new chrome on Vinayagar Chathurthi

Tajmahal thevai ilai..

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Blogger in Tamil

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:41:00 +0000

Blogger has provided an option to choose your language, and I chose tamil.. It looks like this

Earlier had similar experience with google news, where I can see and explore all news items in Tamil. News feeds are fetched from tamil news sites, I always used to explore some news sites with pressmart enabled to browse through the news, now its more easy for me to get them all sorted based on the category.

Good work google.

Jasper Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:53:00 +0000

Naan thedum..

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:12:00 +0000

Film : Dharma paththini
Song : Naan thedum sevvanthip poovithu
Singer : Ilaiyaraaja & S.Janaki

Naan thedum sevandhi poovidhu
Oru naal paarthu andhil pootadhu
Poovoidhu vaasam, poovom ini kaadhal desam
Poovoidhu vaasam, poovom ini kaadhal desam

Naan thedum sevandhi poovidhu
Oru naal paarthu andhil pootadhu
Parandhu sella vazhi illayo, paruva kuyil tavikiradhe,
Siragirendum virithuvitten, ilam vayadhu tadukiradhe
Ponmaane, yen yoogamdhaan
Pendhaano, sandegamdhaan
Yen devi aaaaaaa aaaaaa.
Un vizhi oodayil naan kalendhen, Un kani vizhum yenna davam kedandhen
Poongathu soodachu, rajave yaar moochu?

Naan thedum Sevandhi poovidhu
Oru naal paarthu Andhil pootadhu
Mangaikul enna nilavaramo, manjathil vizhum nillai varumo?
Kannathai endhan viral thodumo, yendraiku andha sugam varumo ?
Thalaadum penmeegam dhaan
Yenaalum un vaanam naan
Yen deva aaaaaa.. aaaaaaa
Kan malar moodida yen tavithen? Yen viral nigangalai thinam izhandhen
Thalaatu paadamal thoongadhu yen pillai

Naan thedum Sevandhi poovidhu
Oru naal paarthu Andhil pootadhu
Poovoidhu vaasam, poovom ini kaadhal desam
Poovoidhu vaasam, poovom ini kaadhal desam

Naan thedum Sevandhi poovidhu
Oru naal paarthu Andhil pootadhu

Indepence Day

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:37:00 +0000

Happy Independence Day !!

Fotos

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:08:00 +0000

At last got company to take some snaps, venkat and Lakshminarayan were brilliant in taking some snaps and with their posture

Walking directions with google maps

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Sitaraman) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:04:00 +0000

I always use google maps to find directions, though its pretty easy over here in Calgary. Whenver I use the directions it'll always show the directions by car, indicating the duration and distance of travel, also indicating the one way. Often I'll take printout of that and draw a directions on my own since I don't have car and prefer walking most. Now Google maps introduced walking directions So my job has become simple now enter the addresses and proceed.