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Archive for September, 2009

Two Free Microsoft Virtualization Books

Posted in Information Technology on September 29th, 2009 by Kent

Here are two books offered for free, one in PDF format and one in paper copy. If you are a fan of virtualization, or even Microsoft Hyper-V, you should go and grab them before the deals are gone.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Inside Guide to Microsoft’s Hypervisor

image NetApp offers this book for free to everyone who register on their…

Join the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program

Posted in Stuff in General on September 26th, 2009 by Kent

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If you are a web professional designer or developer in a small firm that has less than 10 employees and you are already using Microsoft technology, you definitely need to check this new program Microsoft just announced, called Microsoft WebsiteSpark. It’s a nice program that offers Microsoft web development software at no cost, including

    Downgrade iPhone from 3.1 to 3.0, not easy but doable

    Posted in iPhone on September 23rd, 2009 by Kent

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    I upgraded my iPhone 3G from 3.0 to 3.1 a few weeks back, which is quite rare to me as I usually don’t upgrade until I am certain the new release is stable. Guess I put too much confident on them as they didn’t let me down for the past few upgrades. But too bad, I was wrong…

    Pulling the user info from Active Directory in ASP.net app in C#

    Posted in ASP.net on September 22nd, 2009 by Kent

    I have a small ASP.net web application that requires to redirect users to different page based on the department they belong to. So basically, the app needs to contact the Active Directory and pull the user info from it. In order to do so,

    First, add the System.DirectoryServices reference to my app project in Visual Studio, which adds a single…

    Do not upgrade your iPhone to 3.1 if you haven’t done so

    Posted in iPhone on September 17th, 2009 by Kent

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    Two issues so far since I upgraded my iPhone 3G to 3.1 a few days back.

    1. It has frozen on me at least 5 times. The whole thing went black and refused to response no matter what when it happened. The only thing I can do is hard boot it by pressing and holding both power switch…

    Free Complete WordPress Cheat Sheet

    Posted in Cheat Sheet, WordPress on September 17th, 2009 by Kent

    I love cheat sheet so I have made a separate category in this blog that specially aims to all kinds of cheat sheet that I discovered around the Internet. Hope you can enjoy and find them useful.

    The very first one goes to this free complete WordPress Cheat Sheet, designed by the guys at

    .Net app development goes on iPhone

    Posted in iPhone on September 14th, 2009 by Kent

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    Hooray, and more interestingly, this .Net supported develop kit is not offered by Microsoft but its competitor, Novell. The toolkit is named MonoTouch, which will be released today, according to infoworld.

    Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft’s .Net Framework instead of

    Becoming a better IT consultant by avoiding these 10 mistakes

    Posted in Information Technology on September 14th, 2009 by Kent

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    IT consulting is not an easy industry. Instead, just like Erik Eckel says here,

    IT consulting is a dynamic, ever-changing industry that requires practitioners to maintain multiple skills. Rapid technological shifts frequently change the way you work, the tools you use, and the operational procedures you require. To meet that challenge and stay in the

    Tips on buying legit software for less

    Posted in Tips & Tricks on September 11th, 2009 by Kent

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    No, I am not telling you buy those illegal copies from many kinds of spam emails. These are tips from digital inspiration for buying legit copies of software through the authorized channels. It saves you money but not likely will be over 70% off, like those ones from the spams. It’s impossible to beat them…

    Emailing multiple photos from iPhone at once

    Posted in iPhone on September 10th, 2009 by Kent

    Now with native copy/paste support on iPhone 3.0, a lot of things has become possible, including this bulk photo emailing. If I have 10 photos to email from my iPhone, I used to send 10 time with each time only sending one photo. Now I can do in one single shot.

    Step 1, fire up Photos app on your iPhone,…