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Most Valuable Practices On The Way To Solution
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This title is the translation to English of a book that Turkish MVPs wrote in Turkish. The main subject of the book is sharing the knowledge and experience that MVPs have had during business life. The book has a different style and contains very valuable information that is worth reading. I wrote three chapters named Customer In Software Projects, Tips For Software Project Management and High Performance and Code Optimization. If you live in Turkey you can get the book from all bookstores. If you are outside of Turkey, I am planning to publish the sections I wrote in English at my blog, but it may take some time. You can contact me for any opinion or suggestion about the book. 
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Yazgelistir - CodeSnippets And Open Source Projects
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Turkey's Developer Platform Yazgelistir.com has opened two new categories. These categories are Code Snippets and OpenSource Projects. From now on the users will not only read the topics that they intrested, bur also wil have the chance to download the code of an application that they are intrested in. Since the software industry is also based on practical knowledge and experience as teorical knowledge, this is an excellent improvement.
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Announcment From Microsoft: SharePoint Developer Introduction for .NET Developers launched
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The new material is designed to help .NET Developers to learn the top ten artifacts in SharePoint that are interesting to them. We’ve created a variety of materials with different learning styles to make getting started with these artifacts easy and it’s all based on the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – planned to release v1.2 for Visual Studio 2008 this week also (watch for their announce).
The Top Ten SharePoint Artifacts of interest to .NET Developers being promoted
• Web Parts
• Data Lists
• Event Handlers
• Workflows
• Silverlight Web Parts
• Page Navigation
• Page Branding
• Web Services
• Content Types
• User Management
At the site (which is hosted on microsoft.com) we have:
• An Introductory Whitepaper
• Benefits of SharePoint for Developers
• A Small Public VPC
• Hosted MSDN Virtual Labs in C# and VB.NET
• Video Interview with SharePoint MVPs
• Screencasts
• Web Casts with SharePoint MVPs (incredible 1705 live attendees in just the first four WebCasts)
• Quickstarts
• Labcasts
• Presentation Download
• Hands on Labs Download
• Additional Resource Links
The site encourages developers who use the content to also take a next step and go on Instructor Led Training, Get Certified, and Download an evaluation copy of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com
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My USA Diary - New York
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New York, my last stop in USA, is a similar city to Istanbul in many ways. City has serious traffic jams and chaotic traffic. As Vehicles change lanes frequently, pedesterians sometimes do not wait the green light to cross the road. Unlike other cities you can bargain with salespeople. However in order to get rid of this chaos only thing you should do is to take a step into the Central Park. You feel as if you were out of city center at this huge park that people can run, cycle, sit on grass, do boating at lake. New York is really a huge city. It would be nice to join a Sight Seeing Tour on a Double Decker bus. These tours are continue in daytime and you can hop out at a stop, walk around and after hop in again. Even at night, thanks to the the light of lcd's at Times Square, you can walk as if it's daytime. While Sight Seeing tour you will see a lot of beautiful buildings. Especially Statue Of Liberty, Empire States Building, Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge will impress you.
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My USA Diary - Seattle
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I spent 4 days in Seattle while attending Microsoft Mvp Global Summit 2008. Seattle is known as a technological city beacuse of the settlement of Microsoft and the Boeing Factory. However Seattle has a quiet and peaceful life style. Another intesting fact about Seattle is that the weather is cloudy and dark 75% of a year. It is also possible to see marines and houses in the middle of nature that impress you. Even not as high as in Chicago you have the chance to see the city from the top by visiting Space Needle. If you have leisure time, you can join Underground Tour to visit Old Seattle or plan a trip to Seattle Aquarium to view sea life closer and see surprisingly cute animals. If you are enthusiastic about technology attending a tour to Boeing Factory is a great opportunity that you should not miss.
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My USA Diary - Chicago
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I had the chance to spend 2 days in Chicago just before attending the Microsoft MVP Global Summit which was held in Seattle. Most of you know that Chicago's most known nickname is The Windy City. That is a perfect nickname for Chicago because it was really so windy and so cold. To decrease the effect of cold you can get an extreme hot drink from Starbucks that you can see every five minutes on your walkpath. Also in the downtown Chicago wherever you look you can see a skyscraper. Skyscrapers were so high that the gps device was not working correctly. To feel the height of skyscrapers you can visit the Hancock Observatory at the 94th floor of John Hancock Center which totally has 100 floors. At this observatory while feeling as if you were in a plane you can see 130km(80 mile) away and 4 different states. When you see Lake Michigan, you can easily be impressed with the size of the lake, the view of of the running and cycling tracks and the beauty of the parks. You can also visit the Buckingam Fountain which was seen in the trailer of Married With Children and for shopping you can find lots of shopping malls and stores on Michigan Avenue.
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My Longest Day
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The title of my entry may remind an episode of Scrubs, however 11 April 2008 was the longest day I’ve ever lived. I had a flight from Istanbul to Chicago on 11st April 2008 at 10:00. After a 12 hours flight, it was exactly 14:00 on the same day when I arrived Chicago. Consequently, I had a 32 hours of day instead of 24 on 11 April 2008. It was a different experience I had in my life. But I’ll be living my shortest day on the way back home.
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.Net Programmer vs SQL Programmer
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We work as software developers in software development industry. However are we actually a .Net Programmer or a SQL Programmer?
You can easily decide what kind of a programmer you are after considering the differences between these two concepts.
*While .Net Programmer uses the objects and methods of .Net Framework to achive the functionality requirement of application, SQL Programmer uses the methods of Sql Server.
*While .Net Programmer manages the business rules by the decision mechanisms and loops in .Net Framework, SQL programmer prefers to use decision mechanisms and loops in SQL server such as cursors.
*While .Net Programmer manages the transactions in business layer, SQL Programmer manages transactions in Sql Server.
*While .Net programmer designs the application compatible and can be easily integrated to any database system, SQL Programmer uses commands and functions which are specific to SQL Server.
*While .Net Programmer uses stored procedures or queries which are short, easy to read and written for a specific purpose, SQL programmer uses complex queries, stored procedures or triggers.
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Windows Server 2008
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Last Monday I installed Windows Server 2008 Operating System. My first impressions are that Windows Server 2008 is faster than Windows Server 2003 and looks more stable. Although I had some compability issues like the ones in Windows Vista, I solved every issue by searching the internet. Besides, in order to use the interface in Vista Themes and run some programs like Windows Media Player, you should install Desktop Experience Feature. I've installed Vs2003, Vs2005, Vs2008, SQL2000, SQL2005 and they all work fine. But I observed that Visual Studio 2008 and Sql Server 2005 are the most compatible versions that work with Windows Server 2008. I'd like to share the way how I installed these programs.
1)Installation Of IIS 7.0
2)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
3)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1
4)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2005
5)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2
6)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
7)Installation Of .Net Framework 1.1 SP1
8)Configuring the IIS Server to run ASP.Net 1.1 applications (http://www.iis.net/articles/view.aspx/IIS7/Hosting-Web-Applications/ASP-NET/How-to-Run-ASP-NET-v1-1-on-IIS7?Page=1)
9)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2000
10)Installation Of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4
11)Installation Of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
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Chameleon At Codeplex
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As most of you know i develped an application named chameleon which allows users to manage their network settings quickly via setting profiles. From now on i will be publishing my project at Codeplex in order to allow users to track changes and view source code. You can visit the project page at http://www.codeplex.com/chameleoncsm
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New site, new design
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I've been sharing knowledge, things that bother me and funny stuff with you for two years in my blog. About two months ago i decided to share more stuff about myself with you. Işıl also had the same thoughts with me. We discussed about some new features that we could add. We needed something that covered our expectations, could be easily extended and should contain the newest technologies. After our searches we could not find what we needed. At last we found out that as a best solution it would be better to develop our own site. In this new version of my site, you will be able to find everything about me from articles to picture albums. It was clear that my site could not be like this if it weren't for Erbuğ's design and Işıl's support. Thanks again.
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Top Mistakes In Software Projects
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- People Related Mistakes
- Undetermined motivation
- Weak personnel
- Uncontrolled problem employees
- Heroics
- Adding people to a late project
- Noisy, crowded offices
- Friction between developers and customers
- Unrealistic expectations
- Lack of effective project sponsorship
- Lack of stakeholder buy-in
- Lack of user input
- Politics placed over substance
- Wishful thinking
- Process Related Mistakes
- Overly optimistic schedules
- Insufficient risk management
- Contractor failure
- Insufficient planning
- Abandonment of planning under pressure
- Wasted time during the fuzzy front end
- Shortchanged upstream activities
- Inadequate design
- Shortchanged quality assurance
- Insufficient management controls
- Premature or overly frequent convergence
- Omitting necessary tasks from estimates
- Planning to catch up later
- Code like hell programming
- Product Related Mistakes
- Requirements gold-plating
- Feature creep
- Developer gold-plating
- Push-me, pull-me negotiation
- Research-oriented development
- Technology Related Mistakes
- Silver-bullet syndrome
- Overestimated savings from new tools or methods
- Switching tools in the middle of a project
- Lack of automated source-code control
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