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Templating Confluence notification emails

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:09 +0000

the details are listed here http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+eMail+Templates Customisations to the Confluence email templates will need to be reapplied when you upgrade Confluence. Consider this before making drastic changes to the layout, and be sure to keep a list of what you have changed for your upgrade process later. Only administrators with access to the server where Confluence is running [...]

Installing Google notebook extension of Firefox 3.5.x

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:27:28 +0000

I love google notebook, it helps me organize my daily activities and I use it as a task tracker as well. I had the firefox google notebook extension installed in previous version of firefox, but it fails to upgrade when I moved to firefox 3.5. However after some investigation I found out this very useful [...]

Mindtouch Wiki Review

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:53:16 +0000

Requirements To find a wiki that supports the following An Invitation system that allows to invite new users to the wiki, the user receives an invitation email and then responds to join the wiki. There is a filtration process to only [...]

Started working with Ruby on Rails

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:46:55 +0000

For a current project that I am working on I had to start working with Rugy on Rails. My first impression of both Ruby and Rails has been quite nice, although still lacking the good debugging capabilities like visual studio provides, but I hope that slowly and gradually I will be able to manage that [...]

CSharp Templating Engine investigation

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:11:45 +0000

In order to render html from our C# REST service we had to look into templating engines available in C#, since we wanted our generated html to be altered on the fly. We came across the following 4 View engines exist in MVCContrib project Which are Brail NHaml (NHaml has been moved from [...]

Visual Studio 2008 Internal Web Server stopped working in Vista

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:41:37 +0000

I have been debugging perfectly fine using Visual Studio 2008 using visual studio internal web server, but suddenly today it stopped working (maybe due to windows update, but still not sure about the cause of this suddenly not working), On starting the debugger IE came up with a blank page saying the page could not [...]

MovableType Invalid login error on XML-RPC call

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:49:09 +0000

I have worked with XML-RPC calls in the past to interact with MT in the past but after release of version 3.2 onwards I did not get a chance to work with it again, until recently. I used the Argotic Syndication Framework to interact with the MT XML-RPC. However I was constantly getting ‘Invalid login’ [...]

Integration testing In .NET

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:11:27 +0000

According to Wikipedia ‘Integration testing’ (sometimes called Integration and Testing, abbreviated I&T) is the phase of software testing in which individual software modules are combined and tested as a group. It follows unit testing and precedes system testing. Integration testing takes as its input modules that have been unit tested, groups them in larger aggregates, [...]

Getting Started With Windows Azure Development

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:06:59 +0000

In order to start working with Windows Azure Development following components are required Windows® Azure™ Software Development Kit Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Login to Windows Azure services Windows Azure Consists of following four main components Windows Azure: Provides a Windows-based environment for running applications and storing data on servers in Microsoft data centers. Microsoft .NET Services: Offers distributed infrastructure [...]

First Look at LINQ

jalal7@yahoo.com (Imran Aziz) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:45:13 +0000

I have been wanting to look into LINQ for quite sometime and finally last week, due to the requirements of our current project I had to quickly get into it and use it. My first impression is that although a bit tricky to get your head around terms like Expression Tree’s , Lambda Expressions, and [...]