Andri Yadi

PLN oh PLN

2008-08-21T19:04:18Z

Kemarin pagi, 21 Agustus 2008, sekitar pukul 1 dini hari, saat lagi gencar-gencarnya coding untuk mengejar deadline presentasi nanti siang, tiba-tiba aliran listrik dari PLN mati. Server langsung mati (maklum nggak pakai UPS) dan sebagian hasil pekerjaan (terutama database) masih di server. That's s*cks... PLN oh PLN..When are you gonna be better? Perusahaan Listrik Negara, sebuah nama yang menyiratkan tanggung jawab yang besar untuk menyuplai listrik kepada negara, tapi ternyata tanggung jawab...(read more)

VBA vs. VSTO

2008-08-19T11:47:00Z

Several weeks ago, a client asked my company to be involved in a project to develop some kind of customizations for Microsoft Excel using VBA. Visual Basic for Applications or VBA? Hmmm…sounds like an old stuff. I remembered playing with VBA when I was in college. Watching my computational physics professor cracking RSA encryption by only using VBA was impressive. He also visualized Kinematics translations, fractal, and electrical field using VBA. Oh...I missed old days. Just for my nostalgia, here...(read more)

08/08/08 08:08:08

2008-08-08T01:08:23Z

What happen at that time? Well, nothing special happens for me. At that time, probably I was coding, preparing application and presentation slide for presentation to client later after lunch. Look like many couples plan their marriage on this day. Rebecca Dolgin, an executive editor at wedding resource company The Knot, said more than 22,000 couples registered online for Aug. 8, 2008, weddings between TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com . An average Friday during the summer wedding season has 5,000...(read more)

Synchronizing Task Pane Visibility State and Toggle Button on Ribbon

2008-08-04T09:56:00Z

Menjawab pertanyaan, keluhan, dan tantangan dari sdr Dondy :) yang terungkap pada saat ngobrol-ngobrol di acara Heroes Gathering (2 Agustus 2008, di Gunung Putri Bogor), gw posting tulisan ini. You know Task Pane in MS Office products right (refer to picture below)? The question is how to control task pane visibility from a toggle button on ribbon. If the toggle button is checked (bevel in), the task pane is visible, and vice versa. What if the task pane is closed by clicking "x" button...(read more)

DyBand

2008-07-14T07:45:58Z

Selama 5 tahun terakhir ini, nggak seharipun dilewatkan tanpa memikirkan pekerjaan. Karena kebanyakan pekerjaan IT butuh logika dan analisis, otak kiri dipakai secara intensive. Otak kanan hanya sesekali dipakai, misalnya pas lagi benerin CSS styles. Karena tingkat stress yang sudah cukup tinggi dan demi "memuaskan" otak kanan, saatnya melirik hobby yang memerlukan kemampuan seni. Pernah mencoba photography, tapi malas keluar rumah buat cari objek-objek yang bisa difoto. Di kantor nggak...(read more)

Finally It Comes...

2008-07-07T19:38:00Z

This the first posting since I've been "awarded" as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional ( MVP ) of Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). As announced by Naren at his blog , there are four new MVPs and three renewal MVPs for this July cycle. The formal announcement is sent via email by Lilian Quek, MVP Lead, Southeast Asia on July 1, 2008 10:13 PM. What a historic day for me :) On July 2008 MVP Award cycle, there are 26 renewal MVPs and 12 newbies. As of July 2008, there are 126 active...(read more)

GCOE - Web Site Publik Berorientasi Kependudukan

2008-06-28T22:48:17Z

Pada hari kamis, 26 Juni 2008 lalu, saya berkesempatan mengisi batch terakhir dari serangkaian kegiatan Government Center of Excellence ( GCOE ) training di Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) ITB. Training terakhir ini bertajuk "Web Site Publik Berorientasi Kependudukan". Lebih jauh ttg GCOE training bisa dilihat di sini dan di sini . Pada hari yang sama, di MIC UI juga berlangsung training GCOE dengan judul yang sama, yang di-deliver oleh Agung Riyadi . Jika Agung membahas Windows Live...(read more)

SQL Server-based SiteMap Provider

2008-06-13T06:49:00Z

Menanggapi pertanyaan di Milist dotnet ( http://dotnet.netindonesia.net/?0::3593 ) tentang bagaimana membuat menu yang dynamically generated from database, rasanya gw perlu menulis posting ini. Mungkin ini topik lama, tapi demi mendokumentasikan knowledge, nggak ada salahnya gw posting di sini, ya gak? Jika yang dimaksud pertanyaan pada milist tsb adalah pemenuan untuk ASP.NET, bisa bertumpu pada control <asp:Menu> dengan attribut DataSourceID di-set dengan ID dari control <asp:SiteMapDataSource>...(read more)

Send SMS to Outlook Contact - A VSTO Outlook Add-in

2008-05-25T16:14:00Z

Imagine you can send an SMS message to a mobile phone number of an Outlook contact directly from your Outlook. Despite there are some Outlook Add-ins those allow to do that, why don't build by your own. All you need are VSTO and GSM modem, either dedicated GSM modem or a mobile phone that can be connected via COM (using USB, Bluetooth, or Infrared). Here are some capture how our add-in will look like. Custom toolbar to connect to GSM modem and display SMS form When you click GSM Modem button...(read more)

100 Years Indonesia National Awakening

2008-05-24T20:17:11Z

Sungguh ironis, 4 hari setelah peringatan 100 tahun Kebangkitan Nasional Indonesia, harga BBM ikut bangkit (baca: naik - red). Apakah Indonesia sudah benar-benar bangkit dalam 100 tahun terakhir ini? Sebuah pertanyaan besar. Terlepas dari carut marutnya kondisi multi dimensional di Indonesia, ada secerca harapan di area teknologi, khususnya teknologi informasi. Simaklah artikel bertajuk " Kebangkitan, LAHIR dan TUMBUH dalam GELANGGANG ", yang dimuat di majalah Teknopreneur, Edisi 18|Mei...(read more)

"Poisoning" PHP Developers at MSDN Day | PHP on Windows

2008-05-17T07:36:31Z

On Thursday, May 15, 2008, I talk about Interoperability between .NET and PHP through XML/SOAP Web Services at MSDN Day | PHP on Windows . During my session, I do a little "poisoning" to PHP developers by showing to them how easy creating web services and proxy classes to access web services in .NET using Visual Studio. And it's quite successfull, a participant finally asks Visual Studio price since he is interested on Visual Studio features. I think I should be a Visual Studio marketer...(read more)

VSTO & MOSS with Visual Studio 2008

2008-05-11T20:26:29Z

As part of Developer Workshop for Financial Services, on May 8, 2008, I delivered a training about VSTO and MOSS with Visual Studio 2008. The training was held at Solusi Training Center (Sarana Solusindo Informatika), sponsored by Microsoft Indonesia. Since MOSS cannot be installed on my Windows Vista machine, I install MOSS on Windows Server 2008 running on Virtual PC. So, entire coding is done in VPC. Most of training time I use for demo and hands on lab, so not many slide I presented. As demo...(read more)

WSS 3.0 Installation Screencast

2008-05-04T22:41:00Z

Just want to show you how easy WSS 3.0 installation on Windows Server 2008, I've made a screencast as follow. Currently, it has no audio explaining installation process, but I will add it later. I think you can grab the explaination just by seeing the video. FYI, not like Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 doesn't bundle and install Windows Sharepoint Services by default. You have to download and install it separately. Sorry for crappy video quality. I encode it using Expression Encoder...(read more)

WSS 3.0 Demo

2008-05-02T20:34:57Z

For you who haven't know what Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) is all about and the newest features of WSS 3.0, you have to see this demo at: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/demo.mspx FYI, most of demonstrated features are available for free, except Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and Office Sharepoint Designer 2007, as long as you have Windows Server 2003/2008 & SQL Server 2000/2005 (those are should be bought). As this site says, WSS 3.0 is available as a separate download that is available...(read more)

The Full Report of Windows Live TTT, Bangkok - The Trip to Bangkok

2008-04-28T21:33:46Z

WARNING!!! Before you open this posting, be prepared that this posting contains many photos that may slow down page loading. Banyak foto orang-orang good looking dan banci kamera yang bisa membuat Anda tergila-gila :) Juga banyak foto-foto yang belum mendapat persetujuan dari objek fotonya untuk dimuat di sini, sehingga ada kemungkinan nantinya untuk dihilangkan jika ada complaint dari yang bersangkutan. No animals are harmed in these photos :P Semuanya berawal dari kira-kira awal Maret, mungkin...(read more)