A pair has the right to check out any module and improve it. No programmers are individually responsible for any one particular module or technology. Everybody works on the graphical user interface (GUI).[5] Everybody works on the middleware. Everybody works on the database. Nobody has more authority than anybody else over a module or a technology.

Via Agile Principles, Patterns and Practices in C#.

I have faced many Iranian developers who think they just have to go for the code; and that's really ONLY coding, no sense of UI. I have seen many of them giving you a raw printed style newspaper rather than a website.

I recently use mkisofs.exe (a command prompt tool which you can create ISO images from whatever you have) and ImgBurn for writing my data into discs. Supports DVD and CDs and what's more they both are FREE, no spyware not slow as Nero, no bugs, no crashes...

The game finished some minutes ago, and the Iranian boys made to path to the final round of world championship beating France in 3 sets.

Reza Hashemi, is writing on "The most misrepresented and misunderstood country of the world." in CNET Asia.

Fonality's CEO, a IP-PBX Company who is responsible now for Trixbox and their business solution is based on Asterisk, has been interviewed by Rich Tehrani. You may listen to it here.

Skype has become normal for some hours. They are going to give out details on Monday.

Iranian Governmental Sections are obliged to implement e-Government Services at least for 5% of their services completely in 7 months. Good news...

If any of you would be into hosting business, you know the value of a perfect Hosting Control Panel. DotNetPanel is an ultimate solution in Windows Server Hosting Solutions, including but not only WSS, Hosted Exchange Server 2007 and many other great features like multi server control. Their new release is out with some great fixes. Find out more about the release here.

If you are a regular Skype user, as I am, you shouldn't have been able logging in yesterday for some long time. Actually I could even make calls (wierd) but most of the time I was shown as "Offline". Tom Keating giving more on the Skype's Outage.

No more to add, a Dynamics CRM demo with SharePoint, Exchange and based on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2.

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET provides the ability to synchronize data from disparate sources over two-tier, N-tier, and service-based architectures. Rather than simply replicating a database and its schema, the Synchronization Services application programming interface (API) provides a set of components to synchronize data between data services and a local store. Applications are increasingly used on mobile clients, such as laptops and devices, that do not have a consistent or reliable network connection to a central server. It is crucial for these applications to work against a local copy of data on the client. Equally important is the need to synchronize the local copy of the data with a central server when a network connection is available. The Synchronization Services API, which is modeled after the ADO.NET data access APIs, gives you an intuitive way to synchronize data. It makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can count on a consistent network connection.

You all have had the reboot time this week, na? August 2007 Security Releases ISO Image is available for download.

By a report from Netcraft, Apache's share of Web Servers has dropped from 71% in November 2005 to 48.2% while IIS's market share is 36.2% now approaching to Apache's. I guess by releasing IIS 7.0 over Windows Server 2008 with Server Core features, Apache would loos the game in the late of 2008.

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Information Services (IIS) continues to narrow the gap with the open-source Apache Web server, with a survey firm suggesting that the longtime second banana could surpass Apache as early as next year.
Microsoft, which added 2.6 million Web sites in the last month, grew to 36.2 percent of all active Web sites, according to figures released Monday by U.K.-based research firm, Netcraft Ltd. Apache lost nearly a million Web site names, as its share of active Web sites fell to 48.4 percent.
Apache now leads IIS, which is bundled with Windows Server, by 12.2 percent among active Web sites, a list which excludes registered domain names that are not yet in actual usage.
"But if Microsoft continues to gain share at its current pace, it could close the gap on Apache sometime in 2008," said the Netcraft posting accompanying the survey results.
That's a major turnaround in two years. Apache has led the Netcraft survey since its inception in 1995. By November 2005 it was running 71 percent of all Web sites. That gave Apache a greater-than 50 percent lead over IIS's 20.2 percent share, and caused commentators such as Oracle Corp. executive Larry Ellison to declare that IIS had been "wiped off the face of the earth" by Apache.

It looks as Microsoft has it's own definition of SOA. Find out why it is so called here.

The company's annual report offers its perspective on who it competes with and where. Read More . . .

SpamAssassin without DCC is useless as you all know, upgrading to v3.2.2. made DCC not working giving setuid error on Util.pm of SpamAssassin.
What you will have to do solving the issue is installing Patch#4077 over Bug#5574.
Here is how to do this:

Go to your downloaded source code of SA and run these:
wget -k -O bug5574_patch4077.patch "http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/attachment.cgi?id=4077&action=view" patch -p0 < bug5574_patch4077.patch
perl Makefile.PL
make && make install

POP legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN.

Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing. He claims it is destroying good music, saying:

“The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision. It’s just a means to an end. We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet. I mean, get out there — communicate. Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet. Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span. There’s too much technology available. I’m sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today.”

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These step-by-step guides help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008. Via Keith Combs.

I was just reading some articles on Microsoft & China, how they won the market in China, and how Microsoft is acting against software piracy there.
I remember there was going a program like that for poor ME countries like Iran as well, but because of sanction, it was suspended at least for Iran. I bet if they start offering licensed softwares with the same price as they are releasing in China, e.g. ~$70 for Windows Visa Home Edition, most of enterprises here in Iran would go for the licensed ones rather than what they are buying nowadays. Just my 2 cents though...

Although myself have been running an Online Shop for Iranian Art and Persian Art, www.festiveart.com, have never had a chance buying something special through regular Iranian online shopping websites. Three nights ago my Home Server's Hard Disk gone and I replaced it today ordering via RayanSaba.com. Give it a try if you are inside Iran, you will love. I just had to wait for 30minutes for the HDD to delivered to my postal address.