“Wish you all a very happy new year 2010”

When the clock strikes twelve on December 31st, people all over the world cheer and wish each other a very Happy New Year. For some, this event is no more than a change of a calendar. For others, the New Year symbolizes the beginning of a better tomorrow. So, if you look forward to a good year ahead, spread happiness with these wonderful New Year wishes.

Let hold hands together in the New Year to face all challenges and strive towards building a strong, united and prosperous INDIA, and may this New Year bring peace, prosperity and happiness to everyone.

“Wish you all a very happy new year 2010”

About "Pune User Group"

In one of Windows Mobile training session I came across to know about "Pune User Group". Then I started talking with some of Active members of this group.

Pune User Group ( PUG) a group of people who are interested in Microsoft Technology and willing to share knowledge to community.

I really loved their spreading knowledge using various platform, Now I have Registered with this group, I would like to encourage you to join PUG as a member, PUG membership is free. So if you are not yet PUG member then please register yourself on PUG website http://www.puneusergroup.org

There are various areas where PUG works, 2 main types of activities are offline activities, and online activities. Online activities contains posting articles, answering questions on PUG forum, and also online marketing of PUG brand. Second option is offline contribution where you can take sessions in PUG events, meeting, etc. and also can volunteer for PUG events, on an average for every moth there is at least one event, you can check PUG portal for more events.

Once you started contributing to PUG, after 4 months (minimum 3 events for offline activities) of continuous contribution to PUG (any of above type) you will be eligible to join “TeamPune” group inside PUG, TeamPune is a core Volunteers group inside PUG , this groups take care of all activities of PUG. You will come to know all these things and fun behind all this work once you start working with PUG.

If you really interested and are dedicated and devoted to the noble cause of spreading knowledge. This is a platform for you to share your experiences and educate professionals through the learnt lessons of the best Gurus in IT industry....We believe that "Knowledge is wealth.." and we "Gain Knowledge by Sharing knowledge.." [- PUG’s Mantra]

Experience Silverlight through PHPCamp 2010 - 9th Jan 2010

Suyog Dilip Kale

Senior Software D...

Organizer's/Founder of PHPCamp are proudly announcing the

Sponsors for PHPCamp Pune 2010 (http://phpcamp.org), and here are the

BIG names.. Microsoft, Adobe, Xento Systems, these are the Diamond

Sponsors while we have LinuxForYou as our Media Partner.

Come, be a part of this amazing event, which was declared as the

biggest un-conference in India (700+ Campers). Stay tuned for more

updates on the Venue, we are near to finalizing this as well.

We shall be twittering about all our Sponsors on http://twitter.com/phpcamp

. Do follow us on Twitter. Help us spread the word.

The reason i send this to Pune Flex Users, because I feel Pune has a lot of PHP Developer's, and expect some awesome talks on PHP /Flex.

Along with Silverlight stuff from Microsoft.

Cheers,

Reference :
http://www.puneusergroup.org/Forums/Thread.aspx?ItemID=16&
mid=22&pageid=2&thread=151

New year 2010 Welcome Party Pune Junction

Hotel Sarovar Pune , 31 Dec Party Celebration

Ø Full on fun
Ø Unlimited food
Ø Full time with Disc jockey
Ø Garden resort near Lake View

For couple passes Contact:
Abhijit: 9604136464, Kedar: 9822372730
Hotel Sarovar, Bhugaon,
Tal: Mulshi , Paud Road, Pune

Hotel Sarovar Pune , 31 Dec Party Celebration

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 : Architected for all forms of web scenarios

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that SharePoint Online has more than 1 million online users (and 7,000 partners). “SharePoint is more capable, more extensible, more Internet & cloud focused. It’s an amazing product.” , and yes SharePoint is no longer just an intranet solution, it’s been architected for all forms of web scenarios.

Here are few best features I captured about Microsoft SharePoint 2010

· “Ribbon” interface (in-context editing)

· "Visual web parts” (“no more hard-coding of web parts”)

· Supports development / design on Vista & Windows 7

· Access services (publish Access dbases through SP)

· New sandboxed solutions

· Integrated rich media & Silverlight

· Improved Visual Studio & SQL

· Upgrades from 2007 will include a complete migration of an existing home page design / UI to 2010

· Improved social computing (blogs, wikis, tagging, ratings, etc)

· Improved search algorithms and FAST Search integration

· New site scenarios for:
o Pricing analysis
o Hiring processes
o Citizen management (citizen portals)
o Project tracking
o Sales reporting
o Conference planning
o Delivery scheduling
o Compliance review sites

Now let’s brief about features:

SharePoint Sites
1.Rich User Experience

· Easy site editing, including theming & branding
· Office Ribbon UI for faster training & adoption
· Rich offline experience with SharePoint Workspace

2.Anywhere Access
· Mobile-based interaction with people and content
· Read-write web access using Office Web Application
· Cross-browser support for maximized participation

3.Single Platform
· Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet & Internet
· Improved interoperability with standards support
· Out-of-box accessibility compliance for WCAG 2.0

SharePoint Communities

1.Informal Knowledge
· Promote sharing with easy social authoring
· Easily navigate resources with pervasive tagging
· Find better answers faster via user feedback

2.Social Connections
· Connecting users through enhanced profiles
· Staying up-to-date using news feeds and alerts
· Make expertise discovery easy across the enterprise

3.Participation Anywhere
· Work with peers whether online or offline
· Collaborate on the go through the mobile UI
· Enrich existing applications with social context

SharePoint Content
1.User-centric
· Intuitive interaction with content through Office
· Fast discovery using content metadata and tagging
· Rapid creation and publishing of web content

2.Flexibility and Compliance
· Pervasive records management and legal holds
· Enterprise-wide taxonomies and folksonomies
· Cross-farm policies and rules for all content types

3.Management Efficiency
· Metadata and tagging managed by same services
· Less storage and bandwidth for Office & binary content
· Interoperability framework to link legacy repositories

SharePoint Search

1.Better Answers, Faster
· Improved relevance based on usage and history
· Rich results-navigators for shorter search time
· Support for 400+ content types and 85 languages

2.Knowledge Amplification
· Phonetic and multi-lingual for global relevance
· Social connections driven by interests and expertise
· Secure access to content, whether internal or external

3.Enterprise Deployment
· Improved scale to meet any demand volume
· Deployment-specific tuning for best results
· Search-driven applications to enrich platform

SharePoint Insights

1.Data interaction
· Advanced analysis with Excel Services
· Richer data visualization and easy sharing
· Incorporation of LOB data in data analysis

2.Decision Making
· Powerful Self-Service capabilities and visualizations
· Compelling dashboards to drive business results
· Rich reports with access to millions of rows

3.Organizational Effectiveness
· Drive accountability and alignment with scorecards
· Identify issues and opportunities with real-time access
· Improved API for richer extensibility and development

SharePoint Composites

1.User-Driven Solutions
· Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
· Process automation and data validation with Forms
· Visio services integration for data visualization

2.Data Connectivity
· Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
· LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
· SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs

3.Solution Deployment
· Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
· Platform stability with resource quota-management
· Standards support for integration and accessibility

SharePoint Composites

1.User-Driven Solutions
· Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
· Process automation and data validation with Forms
· Visio services integration for data visualization


2.Data Connectivity
· Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
· LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
· SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs


3.Solution Deployment
· Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
· Platform stability with resource quota-management
· Standards support for integration and accessibility


Developer Investments

1.Developer Productivity
· Rapidly develop solutions with Visual Studio 2010
· Application Lifecycle Management & Team Dev
· Solution quality improved with debugging tools

2.Deployment Platform
· Rich solution UI with Silverlight, XSLT View, Clean HTML
· Data Foundation – Relationships, Lookup
· Better programmability with LINQ, Client API

3.Solution Hosting
· Standardized WSP Package Deployment
· SharePoint Online shared solution hosting
· Install on Vista SP1 or Windows 7 for Developers only

My Cubical Decoration won First Price

Its October 2009 month of Diwali festival season in India, two days back we got mail from Recreation activity group that in office there is cubical decoration competition, last year I won price for it, and it was challenge for me to again win this price.

Decorating the cubicle doesn’t translate it to adding all the pink and frills you have. It just means the place where you spend most of your day should have an inspiring effect on you. It should make you feel at home and motivate you to work better. A boring cubicle might proclaim professionalism but it is hardly exciting. You may enjoy what you do but a boring and lifeless cubicle may spell doom to your enthusiasm. Actually when you work in the environment where you are happy and you feel at home, your productivity increases and you stay alert for longer time. Personalizing your workspace can give a flow to your creativity and help you enjoy your work better.

So after two days brainstorming I finalized to work on current hot new about “Presence of water on Moon”, my theme was “SpadeWorx Moon Station”. SpadeWorx Software Services Pvt Ltd, is our company mainly operational on RIA Development, Frameworks Services, Rich Internet Application Development.
What does mean “SpadeWorx Moon Station” theme?
Theme is SpadeWorx opened new office on Moon, it has new work station moon. See following pictures.

• Universe environment feel: I used blank papers to fill surrounding of desk and painted planets and stars with colors to bring universe environment feel.
• Realistic feel: Few buildings that will represent the various work stations of our company like MSFT, OpenWorx, Test lab, Usability and main Head Quarter, HR Tower, to bring realistic feel.
• Future cars on Moon: I used some nice and sporty looking kids cars to represent the future techno driven development on the Moon highways.
• Paper made Moving satellite around the moon, and dish antennas for faster communication, also to show SpadeWorx will build capability to launch satellites from Moon surface, I used to show paper made satellite launchers.
• Actually you can see that I created that environment with my desktop by covering monitor with silver paper and big walky-talky, silver colored goggle, and white colored helmet with strips silver paper.
• To bring aliveness that as I am working that environment I changed my wallpaper with some moon pictures, and some background robotic tones.
• I did not forget to show small water tank near workstation.

And finally I succeed in my effort when I got mail from organizing team that I won the first price for Cubical Decoration for this year. Hope you guys will love to implement Moon station theme for participating in Cubical decoration competition.

Microsoft OneApp :: Unlocking the potential of feature phones.

Microsoft OneApp :: Unlocking the potential of feature phones.

Microsoft has introduced new software application for mobile devices called Microsoft OneApp, that will allow feature phones to run mobile apps like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other popular applications and games.



Inshort here is important points about Microsoft OneApp:

• Its lightweight on-phone footprint of just 150 KB makes the installation easy and fast, choose applications want to install option cut down additional installation time and space usage.

• One point access to applications like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other popular applications and games.

• OneApp also includes cloud services that help offload processing and storage from the phone to the Internet, improving overall performance.

• Auto updated with no extra effort by the user.

• OK tested with wide range of phones:
o Nokia 3555, 5320, 6300, 6500, 6600, E50, E51, E63, E65, E66, E71, N70, N72 N 73, N78, N80, N81, N82, N85, N95, N96
o Samsung U900 Soul
o Sony Ericsson C510, C902, C905, G705,K610i, K800i, K805i, T650i, W200i, W580 i, W595, W660i, W980

• Very soon ready to use: At present, OneApp is available in South Africa through Blue Label Telecoms and their mibli service. Microsoft plans to launch OneApp in more countries within the next year.

• It has both Client and Server components: The client is a lightweight application that is designed to run on the most popular feature phones. The infrastructure components of OneApp are deployed in conjunction with partners to easily and quickly roll out a branded and customized mobile application experience powered by OneApp.

• Software developers can write new apps for OneApp using industry standards like Javascript and XML. The OneApp software developer kit is expected to be available for developers by the end of 2009.

India need to promote student's for Innovations.

In U.S. companies like Microsoft understood important of students talents, so they come up with talent hunting programs like DreamSpark, InnovateOn etc.

All over the world IT companies struggling to find workers with the knowledge and experience necessary to help our businesses compete and grow.
Absolutely, there are hurdles to get over. Skilled worker shortages, fierce competition amongst the ones who are skilled in a particular field, plus a whole new field to contend with now too! Having a background in the field of getting people simply employed in something is tough enough as it is.

Even we try to find where this skill build and produces ourself, but we only makeup it we get proper education and help of resources that required to build. As we says “nothing is inbuilt, and finally complete ”.

While there was high economic downturn and high unemployment rates in other countries, India were leading and performing in all aspects, and I think it was not only because of Indian Economy, but it has got very talent leaders in I.T.
And finally I am coming to the point that Indian student has very good talent, only concern is that they not getting proper education and resources to built their skills.
One more step ahead, it not just enough to providing facility and motivating for building skills, Indian Economy need to evolving and growing long-term such programs for it.

In coming decades there will be high requirements for working on emerging technologies and innovations, Such occupations will also require that job seekers possess a basic platform of skills to prosper in a global economy.
Not only our Economy but even communities, employers and schools need to work together to help our students get the knowledge and skills they will need to succeed in fields with high growth potential.
What is also required is the training and development of persons who would be providing accurate, current and important career information to young people.

The up and coming students definitely need accessibility and benefit of every educational resource they can.
let’s bring euphoria………promoting student’s Innovation programs.

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