Today i was pleased by getting my Scrum Master Certificate , I can’t wait to actually start using it in real life I think it is a great way of managing and developing software, it just feels right Here is the description and the rules to get certified here and here Basically it is taking [...]

  This Post is part of  Scrum Master Series Sprint Zero: Overview of the main backlog items (legacy bugs, Infrastructure Items, Analysis Work) Dividing large Epics into small stories that allow prioritization by PO considering Return on Investment (ROI) Product Backlog Backlog Items should describe the what not the how they can take the form [...]

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This Post is part of  Scrum Master Series Scrum Workflow Product Vision Product Backlog Sprint Planning 1 Selected Backlog Sprint Planning 2 Sprint Backlog Sprint Retrospective Sprint Review Daily Scrum Back to Step (3) What is "Flow" ? Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he [...]

This Post is part of  Scrum Master Series Scrum is originally the American football meeting the team makes before the actual game Scrum is a good agile way of developing and planning software programmers It is basically have the idea of doing not discussing, if you are new to scrum meetings You will get the [...]

So i wanted to look into the new syntax by SharePoint 2010 to connect to a site and Retrieve edit data And i found that great topic that goes through the API step by step and explaining every Things with code and examples really liked it Using the SharePoint 2010 Managed Client Object Model Table [...]

I have started lately a POC project in the health care filed with the Microsoft surface And i was trying to integrate SharePoint 2010 with the surface And i really wanted to use VS 2010 but the problem was that Surface SDK only worked with Visual C# Expression and actually the C# Expression is one [...]

I promised you a few items ready for download – these are the links: Administrative guidance: here Specific for remote management: here SDK (if you don’t have it already): here Dev environment setup: here From this it is quite clear that we could do more complex content – this is noted and although I cannot [...]

What is New In C# 4.0 Dynamic lookup dynamic d = 7; d = “Abdel-Rahman”; Named and optional parameters public void M(int x, int y = 5, int z = 7); M(1, 2, 3); // ordinary call of M M(1, 2); // omitting z – equivalent to M(1, 2, 7) M(1); // omitting both y [...]

Functions Instant Messaging on-Premise web conferencing Audio/Video conferencing Telephony Architecture Editions Standard Edition ( small/ medium )organizations All scenarios / Functionalities located on the server Enterprise Edition( medium / Big) organizations Consolidated configuration All functions/Scenarios located on front end servers Expanded configuration Each Function is configured on a standalone server Servers Front End Servers( All [...]

So last week end i decided to upgrade my HTC touch HD windows based mobile phone to the new windows 6.5 and the fancy HTC TouchFlo 3D it took all the week end actually to do it …. not because it is difficult but because i made it wrong so i am here today to [...]

At my company we were trying to configure up documentum integrated with SharePoint 2007 but our main problem was that SharePoint was installed on Windows Server 2008 ( Hyper V) and documentum is only integrated to work on Windows 2003 so that was one of the big issues forced us to reconsider the solution. but [...]

So just a quick notes on what I learned in two days at Microsoft development center ,basically it was a big demo of what UC can do and then a small explanation of each step and how was the demo done The demo was about a wife that is going to buy a sofa from [...]

So here what I got for Microsoft surface I am very sure i saw a video showing how to make a game to the surface some where in that site The table official site The table partner program The Table for programmers (you have to be a MS partner to get access to the sdk [...]

I am getting very excited here looks very interesting and a lot of fun to play with Hardware needed HP TouchSmart All-in-One PC : Touchsmart Price : 9000 from fona see here Or Dell latitude XT2 Price details and here  (starts at $2,399) Or HP touchsmart tx2 (starts at $800) here Software needed Installed Windows® [...]

A great topic explaining all the SharePoint style classes and names   Enjoy ; – )

So i have just got my SharePoint developer certificate , it was 32 question that i had to answer in 2 hours but it was very easy actually if you do the right preparations you will pass 4 sure ; – ) so what i did was basically trying to go through the book called [...]

Here you go the code for sending email within the SP context   using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;SPUtility.SendEmail(SPContext.Current.Web, false, false, "to-address@mail.com", "E-mail title", "E-mail body"); more details here

Some times we need to hide some fields in the InfoPath form according to the logged in user so this where i found how to do it…   Enjoy

Some times when working with virtual machines … it is a good idea to disable the shut down to make sure you don’t hit it by accident so this is how it works Start Group Policy Editor (Start > Run > “gpedit.msc”) In the left panel, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start [...]