Install WSS on a non-default Web site

Yes, U r using VS.NET and done lot of development and have websites. And one fine day someone tells u to leverage Windows Sharepoint Services. U download it for Free and tryto install it and get an error boing! There are Frontpage Server extensions and WSS cant extend the default Web Site because of that. But I have so many applications running on Default Website - I dont want it to be extended by WSS. I need on another Website.

U were in the above scenario isn't it. Well Yes there is a way out Dont Panic -
Charles Young speaks about it in his blog: Installing Windows SharePoint Services using the default instance of SQL Server and a non-default Web Site

How to uninstall Frontpage Server extensions from the non-default web site you created for WSS:
1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Microsoft SharePoint Administrator.

2. On the Server Administration page, click Administration under Virtual Servers.

3. Under Administration, click Uninstall FrontPage Server Extensions.

My First (VS.NET & SQL) 2005 Installation

Hmm, it was pretty neat. No Hangups No Issues. Made sure the prerequisites were there and than it was smooth flow!!! No Hickups.

Documentation Tips

Well watever we do, we usually document if we want watever we have done to be maintainable. And sometimes for others to understand stuff. But usually we dont like documenting and write a document that only we can understand.

Well so its twice energy wasted- U wasted in writing and the reader will waste in reading, as he wont understand. Some nice tips for it: Documentation Tips

Check that out and improve!! Watever we do we should do it in the best way Isnt it!!

Republic Day

Hey its Republic Day!!

And an off from office! Thats nice. Morning started with reading some news! Talks between Saudi King and Manmohan Singh.

Not much to do for the day so thought lets Blog some stuff.

Thanks Vinil (Baba)

No not that Normal Bengali Baba!!! He is our Technology Baba!!! :)

Well he is the one who got me into Blogging with his suggestions. And I m Enjoying it now. He always has best practices for most of the things you ask him. And I wonder how much of knowledge he has on the several topics that I see him talk about. Yes, we call him our Offline Google sometimes. I recollect if I ask him something he always has couple of URLs to support whatever he suggetss as a reply. Maybe he has a table of URLs in his memory and he also has an index on the table fields as the result is too quick(Faster than Google too!!)

Yes I Thank Him and can foresee that I am gonna learn a lot from him. Thanks Baba!!!!!

My First .NET Project

Well U can wonder Y I m blogging my Past. Cos I want to electronise memories.
My First Job, my First Project. A strict Project Manager. The whole team of 8-10 people in his cabin with myself being the most Junior. We were explained the design of the project and database and asked if we had queries. No one in the room dared to speak. Everybody seemed to accept it without a word.

Well I tried to stop myself a lot but couldnt and I told him it would be really nice if the database table names were all prefixed with specific characters to make identification easier. Hmm he looked at me, people looked at me. And there came the hard reply. "I dont like making changes to my Design, but we can do this!!" Thank Goodness. So realised speaking up helps else we would have all lived with those designed table names. And U might add value with common sense also sometimes.

If u have an Thought Voice It out. U will be heard if u make sense and Add Value!!!

My First Encounter with BizTalk & K2.NET

It was July of 2004. One morning we were told there was a POC to be done, the client requirement was received and client strongly believed BizTalk was the solution. We analyzed and realised BizTalk was not meant for this scenario. So we had to prove it was an OverKill.

Learnt BizTalk when it was pretty new just by the documentation and samples(Thanks Microsoft!) and was able to deliver the POC in a month with two other alternate solutions one using Smart Documents and the other using Sarbanes Oxley Accelerator obviously with lot of weekends and late evenings spent by me and Prasanna.


And since we proved it was an overkill. The next product that client wanted to do it was K2.NET . Some people said hey Whats K2.NET ? we wont take it up we dont know this tool. (Trying to be a Hero/Fool) I said we know .NET, Sharepoint, BizTalk and this tool speaks about using all of these. So I dont see a problem. And the reply was "Awwab I will catch you for your words" (I still remember the statement and expression) Well someone was trying to scare me. Sorry dude its not easy to scare me, Thanks to Almighty could deliver and keep my Words.

I learnt K2.NET, developed the POC with Mital Shah and well Than came in lot of Business with K2.NET and we had to Train a team of people on this. And they are still managing the show. I dont know if they are cursing me for it or not.

Wowie... Technologies are so nice.!!!!!!!

Agile Developer Venkat

Hmm.. Well we had an Agile Development Training. And this is what our Trainer has to say about us. Check it out on his blog. Thundering third week in India and Thank you so much.

Agile Development

What is that? Well it is a way to make Development Non-Fragile.
Is it?? Check it out at www.agilealliance.com.

I m a fan of Agile Development now. More on it later

Career Move

Career ...So Finally I took my second jump in my Career after spending more than 1.5 years at CyberTech. It was a tough decision as CyberTech wanted me to fly in a month to US(just to retain me). And I had an option to join another company in Mumbai(Anonymous for now). Finally I took it up, thought Going to USA is an opportunity which I can get later as well. But getting more challenging work was a priority now. And the new company sounds promising for challenges........!!!!!!!!!

So On 21st Nov I was already an Ex-CyberTech employee.

I beleive if U cant change somethings that you dont like and cant live with it, Move On.

First Blog