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November 2005 - Posts

Day 2

Next day, we woke up late... So we head off to the hotel restaurant for breakfast... A sculpture at the water front Then we head off walking along the harbour front, shopping.Yf Olde Curiosity Shop contains many interesting things, including mummies... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:55 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Fireworks!

After the underground tour, we were really very tired from the flight and the day's activities... We decided to head back to the hotel to rest... But darn, the roads are closed again, with a very bad jam! I was sitting in the car, dosing off every seconds, Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 11:19 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Underground Tour

This was what I really wanted to see for this trip. I've read in tour books that they literally build the current city on the one that was burnt in the 1800s... I was expecting to see ruins, and ruins I see, but not quite what I've expected... Kind of Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 9:59 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

I think this place is pacific plaza...

Like what the title says, I think this place is pacific plaza. If not, it is one of the shopping malls nearby... We were hungry and cold, after watching the parade, so we went to look for foooooooood... Did I mention the food in seattle is superb? ;p Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 9:26 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Thanks giving parade

Finally reached Red Lion hotel at 5th avenue... Check in was a breeze, and soon we were in our room on the 9th floor facing 5th avenue... Looking out of the window to see if we have a nice view, we saw this and this. I immediately grab my jacket and my Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 2:00 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Hmm... no wonder there are so many fire engines rushing by...

I was at in one of the electronics shop when more than5 fire engines whizzed pass the store. Shoppers all wondered what happened, especially during this festive mood. I was hoping nothing bad happen... After dinner (technically its supper, as it is already Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 4:09 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Flying to Seattle...

This flight was slightly more comfortable than my last, as I'm taking North West... It comes with more room space for my legs, AND on demand personal entertainment. However, the service was slightly less fantastic. The air crews are chatting away, and Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 1:52 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Speedboat on the runway?

Today's flight is the first flight I ever had in my life till date that takes off with a heavy rain. The flight was delayed for about 10 min as the thunderstorm is directly above Changi Airport. Soon, the plane began to make its way to the start of the Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 3:08 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Bye Singapore...

In a few hours time, I will be bidding Singapore good bye as I would be heading off to Seattle for a workshop. I know that Seattle would be much colder than the last trip I had with other MVPs. Tristan Lim was sooooo kind to accompany me to get a winter Read More...
Posted Friday, November 25, 2005 2:32 AM by kitkai | 2 Comments

Reservist... :(

I'm going to wear the dreaded green uniform for the next two days. Though it can be fun, reservist was never fun for me because my unit's organisational ability sucks big time. I could never forget the fact that by right, booking out time was the best Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 20, 2005 8:47 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Hotfix and Service Pack releases from K2.Net

Exerpt from their tech support newsletter... ------------------- K2.net 2003 Hotfix released on November 15 to support SPS SP2 and WSS SP2 A hotfix for K2.net 2003, to support the new SP2 Service Packs for WSS and SPS, is now available for download to Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:50 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Beta 1 was live... But...

Beta 1 went live this morning, and I immediately went to download the bits. Was busy the whole day today, so when I reach home, I immediately VPN into my corporate network to start installing on a VM which I have prepared earlier. It was then that I realise Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:45 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Windows Workflow Foundation for Office 12 Beta 1

Released when Office 12 Beta 1 was due to release. Download WWF 1.2 here. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:17 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

We share your pain

Watch the video here... When we suffer because of system crashes, Microsoft employee suffers with us! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:36 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

List of iFilters to extend / improve the indexing service

Extend or improve, whatever you call it, I just stumbled across this list of iFilters that you can install to allow Microsoft Indexing Server to index more files! There are Msg iFilters, Zip iFilter (which is not new), RAR iFilters, and even WMA / WMV Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:30 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Wireless Hub 17 levels away

I was on my way home in a cab from Microsoft Singapore this evening. Having lots of work to do, I switch on my laptop to read some materials. My cab travel along Shenton Way, before turning to Keppel and then to AYE (at least it seems so from my limited Read More...
Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 11:03 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Building SharePoint Webparts using VS2005 Walk Through

Via Daniel Larson in SharePoint Portal newsgroup ----------------------------- In response to several NG posts, here is a BASIC walkthrough of creating a simple WebPart for SharePoint using VS 2005. 1. Create a new project (class library). 2. Add a reference Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:51 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

FrontPage RPC and HTTP Protocol Violation, related??!!

I've been trying to debug an error in my migration tool that I am working on to migrate existing wss sites to doclibplus site. One of the function is to copy the documents out and put it into the target site. In Frontpage RPC, you can use PutDocument Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:35 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

K2 Workflow will work WSS SP2 when its upcoming SP3 is released

Demostrating the power of community, after fellow council member, Microlau read my post that K2 workflow does not work with WSS SP2, he proceeded to help me confirm the information with K2. I quote Tom Miller, Professional Services Director of K2.Net Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:58 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

K2 Workflow and Wss Sp2

I just heard this from one of my bosses, that K2 Workflow does not work properly with wss SP2. I haven't got time to check this out yet, and Google doesn't yield any results. Those using K2 with wss, please test before upgradig your production. If you Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 3:54 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Central Templates Part 1

In this article, we examined how to change the default document template used by document library to create new document. However, each document library will have its own document template as SharePoint can only use documents stored in the forms folder Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 12:29 AM by kitkai | 2 Comments

SharePoint deployment resources

Need to deploy SharePoint Services in your organisation, but do not know how to go about doing it? This page contains a list of resources, free and paid, best practices and case studies. Hope it will help u. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 3:27 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments