June 2009 Entries
Today I headed to a nice conversational like article in O’Reilly Radar about Sharepoint job opportunities and depicts some plans for learning that for newcomers., I think It is worth to read. [Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt: by James Turner] del.icio.us Tags: Sharepoint,Job
If you are trying to host or test your WCF app in Vista and IIS7 you may encounter some error messages regarding the MIME type as below: HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found The Page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. To solve this issue follow these steps: 1) Run command prompt with Administrative permissions. 2) Navigate to: windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\ 3) Run ServiceModelReg –i 4) You're done. For more information about this command prompt you can...
I just want to announce this key feature in GSA version 6.0. It is accompanied with a new Administrative APIs -which is now in Beta version- and includes .net and Java. Now, by using these libraries, you don’t need to use GSA admin console and perhaps you may develop your own interface and do some automation in your search configurations. You can access them here and here. del.icio.us Tags: Search,GSA,API
I just noticed a post in O’Reilly Radar about “Vanessa Fox's Search Developer Summit” on 12-June in SF. The good thing about this summit is that it is more about developing part of search… although I am too far from that summit geographically and cannot be there, but you may find it useful. The things they are going to discuss in that summit seems to be: • Optimizing URLs, information architecture and your site’s navigation • Effectively using Flash, Silverlight, AJAX and Video • Diagnosing root cause of existing issues ...
I just got a new email that directed me to new GSA version which is 6.0. There are lots of new functionalities in this version. The main key elements are: Now by using a new technology called (GSA)n , companies can distribute results in different GSAs and integrate search results’ serving across geographic and department locations. By integrating search results, they test crawling and serving up to 1 billion documents. There is an Index Replication functionality, that works when one GSA is down, so that...
Recently I had an opportunity to work on one these search appliances from Google. These appliances as they call it GSA [Website] are similar to all hardware appliances. GSA’s main usage is for so called enterprise search and helps companies to crawl and index their corporate data stored (or lost) in all over the corporation network and serve them to related departments. In their website they mention that it uses Google famous algorithm for searching the web but it is customized for enterprise search. A cute thing about this box is that it is completely...