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October 2005 - Posts

Formated my laptop, getting ready for the next wave of technology

I had to say bye bye to my MacOS skin that decorated my IBM laptop. Everytime I reboot my laptop, it always fails to boot on the first attempt, and after a second attempt, I need to wait for the harddisk indicator to stop blinking before I can login. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 10:18 AM by kitkai | 2 Comments

Stewards of True Riches

Some of you already know that I'm planning to make the biggest purchase of my life, a HDB flat. I've got a queue number from a ballotting exercise. Initially I was pretty disappointed, as there were 348 flats available, and my queue number was 355. My Read More...
Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 10:05 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Some workflow foundation resources

As SgDotNet is preparing to host the November's gathering, one of the topics her members would be presenting is Windows Workflow Foundation. I was reading some of the office blogger's blogs during my own mini break from coding, I found this that might Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:33 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Empty Columns does not appear in the retrieved xml

I was trying to retrieve the list of documents and their properties from document libraries using the List webservices in SharePoint. For default document libraries, I can retrieve those properties easily. But because I'm building a migration tool, I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:11 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Business Travel Stops Here

Check it out here. No more travelling, but not in his condition man.. :) (Though I hope business travel can still continue... Maybe I should secretly hope that the technology will fail... ;p) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:59 AM by kitkai | 1 Comments

How to fill a dark room

I was reminded about this brain teaser I heard in Secondary School on 22 October, during Sunday Service. I can't remember the exact question. Could be "How do you fill a dark room with 10 dollars?", but basically "How do you fill a dark room. Give some Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:58 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

IBF Roadmap

[Via Jopx] Got this from the slides of Mauro Cardarelli:In calendar 2005, Microsoft plans to deliver version 2.0 of IBF, which will add support for SharePoint Portal Server Web parts and Visual Studio Tools for Office integration. By the time Longhorn Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:56 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Free Cheese...

I was reading Adam's profile before the usergroup meeting. And when I read his favorite quote, I find that quote very interesting. His favorite quote is, "There is always free cheese in a mousetrap", which I'm going to remember and use it on my stingy Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:16 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Source code is equivalent to a poem?

If the subject interests you, read on here. Something that was taught in JSIST (nowSingapore Polytechnic)when I was doing structured programming in Pascal. I didn't take programming 101 when I was in university, but seems that a lot of people wasn't taught Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:41 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model Series

Kent Sharkey (who managesthe ASP.NET Dev Center) says thatthe ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model series of whitepapers are live on MSDN - 10 parts, 120 pages! The providers page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/providers/default.aspx will be updated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 4:46 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Adam Cogan is coming to town...

Adam Cogan, a Regional Director from Australia is visiting, and he is dropping by SQLPass and SgDotNet to speak to our members. Adam is an excellent and renowned world-class speakers who have spoken and presented in almost all dark corners in all continents Read More...
Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 4:17 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, Night Market and Back Home

Night time in Taiwan is still full of life. Almost every city has a night market. Microlau and I were all looking forward to experience it. I experience before when I was at GaoXiong during military training, and I'm looking forward to Taipei's version. Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:17 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, Taipei 101 and Nova

We shopped around Taipei 101. Inside was well decorated, but there wasn't much crowd. Apparently, Taiwanese doesn't really like taipei 101. We went into a unique shop which sells moulded glass into very expensive objects and jewelleries. It's really an Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:31 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, Xi Men Ding

Now we are at the MRT, waiting for the train to Xi Men Ding, a popular place with the youthful and young adults. Train is here, And we are on our way! The streets of Xi Men Ding, where there were more people on the road then cars. At first I thought they Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:02 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall

As we walk out from the park, I saw this building, which I didn't ask Charlie what is it, as I was more interested in the trees. They have their top shaved! Table-top trees! On our right, is the parliament building. Security was tight, with personnel Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:24 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, The Park

Next, we head off to a near-by park. I think it is the national park, but again, bad sector in my hard drive detected. :p This seems to be entrance to the park, but as Charlie explains, it is actually to commemorate a certain lady who was widowed when Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:22 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, Food and A Little History

Met up with Charlie at the railway station. So first up, food. Charlie brought us to a quiet corner of Taipei for a nice unique meal which we can't find in Singapore. I can't remember what it is called. It's a bowl of gravy with pork and slices of… Ha Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:17 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Interesting Discovery, a new reserved word

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder or file anywhere named as "con" This is something prettyunbelievable. At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself ! Try it out… Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 2:54 PM by kitkai | 3 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 5, Stopover at Taipei

We were on the same 12 hour flight as Charlie and Jan, both Taiwanese MVPs. We chat a lot as we wait to board the plane. Both Microlau and I fell asleep the minute the plane took off. I woke up a few hours later by a lady that needed to go to the toilet. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:45 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Proposal Ring

Last week, I bought a proposal ring for my girlfriend. It's a certified diamond from SK Jewellery. Wondering why I post it here? Well, as my girlfriend was reading the cert, she suddenly remarked, "This diamond was certified on your birthday leh!" Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:15 PM by kitkai | 2 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 4, Collect our Luggage and to the Airport

Soon, it was time to go to the airport, so we went back to Westin Seattle to collect our luggage, and we were served by Domingo. When he took out my bag, I heard a ripping sound and a loud "opps" from Domingo. Then he passed the bag to me, and pretended Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:00 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 4, Dinner and Night View of Seattle from Space Needle

After the flight museum, we head off to Pioneer Square, thinking of visiting the Underground Tour. How come there is an underground tour? In 1889, there was a great fire caused by untended glue pot and consumed 29 downtown blocks. City planners decided Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:02 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 4, Flight Museum

Time to make our way to the flight museum. Along the way, I asked Tristan to make a quick stop at a traffic junction and managed to capture this shot. What do you think? Is this a good shot? When we reached the Flight Museum, there are lots of plane outside Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:36 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 4, Aquarium

Today we started a bit late. Most of us woke up only at 10 am to get our much needed rest. Yet, we have a packed day ahead. We wanted to visit the Aquarium, Flight Museum, Underground route at Pioneer Square, the ferry tour and Space Needle. I doubt we Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:39 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Changing the default text of the invitation email

Just found this in the newsgroup. Whenever you add someone into a sharepoint site, you can actually notify them that they have access to the site through an invitation email. In my last project, I actually thought that it was not possible, until now. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:53 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 3, Off to Premium Outlets

Once back at the Hyatt, we went to a nearby car rental shop and rented a red car. Don't ask me what model, as there are sooooo many different model of cars in USA, many I never see before in my life. All I know is the car is powerful… Excited about the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:52 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 3, Coming to a Close

Time flies when you are having a good time. Today is Saturday already, and in a few hours, the summit will come to a close. All of us wake up, tired but happy, and we wait patiently at the roadside for our chartered bus to come pick us up. A queue forming Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:24 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 2

Day 2 was pretty hectic, first of all, I made a mistake with my hotel reservation. I'm supposed to book 4 days, but I've booked 3 instead, yet it never registered in my mind that I've booked 3 days instead of 4. I got a shock when I saw the checkout slip Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 11:45 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

True SharePoint Recycle Bin

As most recycle bin solution duplicates your document everytime you upload or modify them in order to provide recycle bin functionality, it takes double the storage to implement that solution. IT staff @ Microsoft came up with a solution for recycle bin, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 2:49 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 1, Dinner with Product Group

As the day draws to a close, it's time to have dinner with the SharePoint people. As I'm not really very socialable, and I haven't met any of the SharePoint guys before, I was pretty nervous. Nevertheless, I picked up my courage and went for the dinner. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 8:25 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 1, Sessions begins

The day starts early, though day before ends late. With jet lag, and not enough sleep, I wonder how we can last through another long day. At 5:30 am, we have to wake up, wash up and be at the hotel café by 6:30 am for breakfast. When we are there, SoftwareMaker Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:02 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 0, Regional Dinner

Dinner at Seattle isn't about the food, it's about connecting with people. Maybe that's why the food isn't great. :p When we arrive, we are given a package. Inside contains a clapper, which we really put it to great use, a bingo card, a cap and stick-on Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:09 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 0, Registration

Seattle's weather is about 20 degrees Celsius I think. It's really cold when you are not used to it. After icelava's nap, his engine hasn't started, so he couldn't take the coolness, and wrapped himself up. Frozen Icelava!! Below are some shots from the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:03 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 0, Breakfast and Shopping

After much walking around, we finally settled in a café for breakfast. It's a nice place with 3 stories. We went up to the second and sat near the window. The person that served us One of the waiter who posed for us We had a great view as well, as Pike Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 1:35 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

SharePoint MVP, CMS MVP gang

Bil Simserdid this cool image map that intro all the ppl in the gang. Thanks Bill! Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:13 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Office 12 breaking news!

Hot new out from MVP Global Summit! Office 12 will have PDF support natively. The PDF format will follow the specification that Adobe has specified. From what I have seen, there are two ways to save to PDF, depending which application you are using. 1. Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 02, 2005 3:18 AM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Global MVP Summit - Day 0, Pike Market

We've arranged to meet at Pike Market at 8 am to have breakfast there, and go for some shopping after that. Bernard, Microlau and I stayed in the same hotel at Westin Seattle, so we ring each other's room to met downstairs. We msn Icelava so that he can Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:05 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments