Bander's Blog

I ran into this early morning on Twitter, URL was posted by @Haacked, hilarious and so true! Drawing original URL: http://xkcd.com/727/

Honestly you don’t have a back slash in a URL; it’s not case sensitive, and there is nothing called a forward slash either! It’s a slash or a back slash.

I have a presentation coming soon and since I’m always eager to playing with new stuff, I went over the web and put my hands on the new Office 2010 beta and started goofing around interesting articles about PowerPoint 2010. Luckily I started with my friends, Samer had a an excellent article called: Why am [...]

If you’re not playing WAKA.WAKA on Facebook, Don’t! It is one of the most addictive games I played. Anyways, I’m jumping with joy for scoring the highest score on Facebook ranking in the 1st place worldwide

Just had one super community night! NO, I’m not saying this because I was the speaker hehehe I had a rocking audience who had questions about everything. The session went on for 2 hours without any breaks! That was community spirit
The community night was about Business Intelligence & SharePoint, we discussed [...]

I’ll be delivering 3 workshops:

Establishing a Project Management Office in your organization using Microsoft Office Project Server and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server
Leverage Enterprise Data Asset using Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions
Build a Self Service Portal using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for the HR Department

I’ll be posting the source code and material used once we’re [...]

The very first screenshot of Google Office leaked to the web. See it here first!

Do you want more power behind your Office-based applications? Check out Office Developer Live!: Master Office Application Development, your pain relief for application development. This series shows you how to build forms using Microsoft Office applications like Word and Excel—the most familiar user interfaces in the industry—that are quick to write, secure, and easy to [...]

How can you take advantage of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) in your enterprise Web applications? Which solutions could benefit the most from AJAX capabilities? How does AJAX relate to other solution models like smart clients and traditional Web applications? In this webcast, we address these questions with an overview of ASP.NET code name "Atlas," [...]

3al 3adeh nazel nam be hal omeh, bs this time a’7oko masdoom rasmi… most of my posts are oriented on small stuff, guys loving shawerma, or keaf ½ banat el ballad shayfeen 7alhom 3al fady o homeh ma3ateeb! hala2 today’s post is going to be about a bad habit that Jordanian’s developed through the years, [...]

As usual it’s 11:30pm, and we parked our car infront of karam share3 mekka eating 3arabi and drinking pepsi getting ready for a long night of trix or code hacking!
Men don deolt sere, I asked the guys a small question: “ya e’7wan, what do you think about shawerma’s culture?” I got some owsome replies [...]

Now back to the part were I’m totaly shocked men banat el balad, they support the idea of Queer theory, imagine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer It’s not like I’m against they idea of braking bounderies between the 2 sexs, it just really confuses me, in Islam we execute gays and lesbos, cultrly they are totaly rejected! further more [...]

During our last camp in dead sea that is last thursday, my best friend T told me this wise line: "folan can be your next best friend for the fact that your current best friend which is me was a total stranger to you when you first met!"
I know 7aki falsafeh o bee3 jarayed, bs [...]

Great link here on negotiating your salary…Here is an excerpt: "In a negotiation on your salary and benefits, DO NOT engage with someone who can say, “I’ll have to get back to you on that.” One of the keys to successful negotiation is that both sides have the same amount of thinking [...]

You know when people say that sometimes if though you are very good in something, still bad things will happen. Yesterday’s Momentom session went bad.. It was not one of my cool funny enjoyable sessions. maybe its the topic, maybe it is the audience, or maybe its just Lebanon! Let’s discard the Lebanon thing for [...]

I swear I’m not laying! wala…
I have 2 presentations to deliver, one about Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets and the other one about Integration between Windows Work Flow Foundation, Office 2007 Server, and Excel 2007 Server!! Don’t feel sorry for me at least I like that part, presenting in a forign country, god I miss Jordan, [...]

"wake up laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy", that’s the first word you ever hear on a typical Friday morning! hehe that’s my aunts voice. In a typical Jordanian family every Friday we all gather in a relative house were we have lunch together, picking on family members, and wasting the whole day long! On the other hand, it’s just [...]

Remember the demo Don and Chris did in one of the MSDN TV shows?
In my last WinFX presentation one of the attendees asked me during the break to build the same simple app that Don and Chris built; honestly I was happy to know that people in Jordan are watching MSDN TV, in addition he [...]

Yesterday’s presentation went great!
Attendees liked WinFX and I bet some went home, downloaded the SDK and spent the whole night playing with it…
One thing I keep noticing in presentations; Introductory slides are always boring! most of them were not that focus and some were trying to keep up but couldn’t! you know the slides were [...]

http://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/archive/2005/12/07/50116…
Please note that Visual Studio 6.0, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and all other products containing MSJVM will be withdrawn from availability on MSDN Subscriber Downloads beginning December 16, 2005.  MSDN subscribers interested in this content and eligible to download these products are encouraged to make any needed downloads before this date.  Recipients of MSDN [...]

The Internet Explorer team talks about URLs in IE7, and what they’re doing to prevent spoofing as much as possible. But…
I don’t want to be a spoilsport, but I’m also curious on how malware writers will work around that. A recent trend is to hide the original address bar and put up an imitation. But [...]

Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only a single ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a Microsoft engineer. "Watch and you’ll see," [...]

Now you get the chance to have your own personalized Google home page!!
check it at: http://www.google.com/ig
you can also check your email messages over there, Omar ; I think I’m gonna switch to Google soon.
Don’t know Omar? well he is a Lead Program Manager on the Hotmail Front Door team, find him at: www.shahine.com/omar/

The Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Project will offer an integrated programming experience, enabling developers to query object, relational and XML data directly from within C# and Visual Basic – without having to use multiple programming languages.
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In order for the “cool Aero effects” (commonly known as Aero Glass) to work, you need two things: 1. a video card that is fully DX9 compliant and 2. LDDM (or I think it was renamed to WVDM) video drivers.
One is not all that difficult, but two is harder. Since the LDDM model is not [...]

Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/
Hypothetical conversation:
Customer:  Do you sell Vista?
Your friend: No.  Sorry.  I only sell Longhorn.
Customer: What’s that?
Your Friend: Microsoft’s new OS.
Customer: But I thought it was called Vista.
Your friend: Not here. Here it is “Longhorn”.
Customer: Then I’ll take that.
Your friend: Longhorn?
Customer: Yes. [gets box handed to her] Say, why is the name taped over on the [...]

Source: http://www.geekpedia.com/
Different languages have different ways of getting information about the visitors. However, most languages can get the User Agent, which provides us, the webmasters, with information about the visitor’s browser, plug-in and operating system.
For example if the user agent of a visitor is:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Windows NT 5.1 [...]

Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Vista Beta 1
at 9:05 a.m. PDT today. The build has not added to
connect.microsoft.com yet, once its added we’ll update this post.
Update: A Microsoft spokesperson has just let me know that Beta 1 is
build 5112. MSDN subscribers can now download the build.
Paul Thurott just posted an interesting bit on [...]

At last Microsoft announced the first BETA release date of Microsoft Windows Vista that we used to know as: Codename Longhorn by August 3rd 2005.
Check the link out: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx