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MVP Again

Guys,

I happy to announce to you that I have been award MVP from Microsoft for the second year.

Have just received this email few moments ago:

 

Dear Tareq Ali,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in BizTalk technical communities during the past year.

Also in this email:

  • About your MVP Award Gift
  • How to access http://www.mvpaward.com to get your technical subscription benefits
  • Your MVP Identification Number
  • MVP Award Program Code of Conduct
The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

Toby Richards
General Manager
Community Support Services

Stc Again and Again

Today the stc site is down and they don't have a custom page to display that they experience a problem

Know I know that they are using APACHE. SHAEM!!!

Team Foundation Server 2010 Deployment

Yesterday, I installed TFS 2010 on a virtual machine with the following configuration:

  • Windows 2008 Enterprise R2
  • SQL Server 2008 SP1
  • SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
  • Etc.

The experience was great; finally Microsoft separated the installation of Team foundation Server from the configuration, the same concept as in BizTalk and MOSS

You have mainly two options:

  • Default Configuration: very simple and straightforward configuration, however you need to know that it will install WSS 3.0 for you. It is a click-once configuration option.
  • Custom Configuration: it is flexible deployment option

In this blog entry I will show you how to deploy TFS 2010 using Custom Configuration: (Each step is self-descriptive)

Note:

This is the configuration steps only, the installation is very simple and there is nothing to talk about.

 

Saudi Post Demo

Every time you try to order food or something, you gonna face the problem of telling the delivery guy how can he reaches you. In modern countries there is something called "Postal Code", just kidding everybody know that, for example in the UK, you just need to tell the delivery guy your postal address and your street number and he will magically reaches you.

Anyway, I was trying to find out if Saudi Arabia has something like that, but it seems it doesn't. This is not related to the blog entry, this post is about the demo that was shown by Saudi post to demonstrate the "My Post Online Service", whatever they offer.

Look at the picture below and tell me, if I am supposed to understand and know that is going on? The screenshots are very small, no single word to give me a clue, this is really "Shame", if you want to do something, do it better, oh, at least acceptable.

I'm really frustrated. I will keep post about these in unacceptable services until they listen.

Craftsmanship and Ethics

One of my favorite and entertaining presenters is Uncle Bob

I usually refer to him as very good presenter and very convincing.

Watch this very nice presentation:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/craftmanship-ethics

BTW, listen carefully when he talks about the relationship between us (as software practitioners) and the client.

"Who is here forced this customer to sign by blood on the requirements document?"

Respect UX” Campaign, SABB VS. HSBC UK

Comparing SABB Internet Banking and HSBC UK

Login Pages:

Account Page:

I was delivering a training session about MSF 4 Agile and I asked the trainees if they have SABB account and I asked them what is the worst UI issue you have (pain) they said the default sorting.

"رؤية محلية وخبرات عالمية" فعلا فعلا

Respect UX” Campaign

Again we are going to attach the same client, STC.

Once you Login to you account, this page appears, and when you hover over one of the links you get the menu very far away from the item as shown in the picture, that is alright if you can click on one of the sub menu items, it is very tricky to do that ask. I consider the site users are gurus to tackle this problem.

STS, SHAME !!!

STC developer(s) used an Javascript menu which doesn't support right to left and they couldn't fix this problem. See the image below which is working properly in the English version of the site.

“Respect UX” Campaign

I noticed there are too many public web sites that lack the basic user experience. In this campaign, I going to publish list of these web sites and I will discuss why. I will start with very famous web sites such as STC and SABB web site, because I really dissatisfied.

www.stc.com.sa

Registration form:

  • If you make any mistake, i.e. there is any validation violation, the form will be cleared and you have to enter the same information again.
  • There are some English text, meaningless, seems to be a debugging information appears in the top of the form

However, the form is simple that is good thing.

Thanks Page:

Upon my registration, it seemed there was something went wrong, and I received a message saying "Thank (null) you information has been successfully saved…"

In order to complete my registration I had to send an email to the customer services, and it took a week to get my account up and running, the reprehensive kept asking me for some information one piece at a time ex:

Email1: Please send us your national  ID number (residency number)which consists of 10 digit so we could serve  you better .

Email2: Your registration has not been confirmed yet.  So, please send us your  phone number which should be registered under your name. Afterward, we will contact you to confirm the registration.

Email3: Sorry. Your subscription is not confirmed yet. So could you please send us all of the information which are related to your subscription. Such as your (ID number), hint question, (accounts numbers), and your( phone number) which is registered under your name. Then we are going to contact you to follow the subscription up so you can utilize the site services or you can follow up the instructions to confirm your subscription via electronic site .

Email4: You are successfully logged to the site; now you can enter and utilize the site services.

Email5: The user name is (usrname) .For security reasons, STC Online has  created you a new password. After your first login to STC Online you could change your password.

 

 

 

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