Launching applications from Internet Explorer browser

Solution provided here assume that application is placed on a known location on any client machine (for e.g. Notepad.exe).

I have used ActiveX with shell scripting for launching Win32 (Non Win32 can be launched too) applications.

JavaScript Code:

SharePoint 2010 Databases

SharePoint 2010 is a combination of range of products like foundation, standard, enterprise editions, project server, FAST search server for SharePoint 2010.

All these products have their own databases which are categorized as below:

Product version and edition	Databases
SharePoint Foundation 2010	Configuration Central Administration content Content (one or more) Usage and Health Data Collection Business Data Connectivity Application Registry service (if upgrading from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog) Subscription Settings service (if it is enabled through Windows PowerShell)
Additional databases for SharePoint Server 2010 Standard edition	Search service application: Search administration Crawl (one or more) Property (one or more) User Profile service application: Profile Synchronization Social tagging Web analytics service application Staging Reporting Secure store State Managed Metadata Word Automation services
Additional databases for SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise edition	PerformancePoint
Additional databases for Project Server 2010	Draft Published Archive Reporting
Additional database for FAST Search Server	Search administration

For details, go to this link.

Visual Studio 11 Beta - What's new in SharePoint Developer tools

Here are the most attractive features which are available/supported in Visual Studio 11 Beta:

1. SharePoint Lists and content types can be visually created using SharePoint List Designer in Visual Studio 11 Beta.

2. NowVisual Web Parts support sandbox solutions deployment

3. Silverlight web parts are available

4. SharePoint solutions can now be published to remote SharePoint server, no matter if it's on-primises or Office 365 (SharePoint Online), remote or local.

5. Full in-built support for performance testing of SharePoint Solutions in Visual studio.

6. Better intellisense and debugging support for Javascript solutions.

7. Right API intellisense for Sandbox solutions. So no need to worry if included API will work in Sandbox solution or not.

Quite interesting list !

For further details you can refer SharePoint Developer Team blog here.

Top SharePoint Professionals

The Top 25 Most Influential SharePoint Thought Leaders in Social Business Today.

http://harmon.ie/news/top-25-most-influential-sharepoint-thought-leaders-social-business-today?si=top25badge

Also here is the link to find SharePoint MVPs blog with rankings!

http://www.postrank.com/user/sharepointbuzz/topic/sharepoint.mvp.blogs

Weather RSS feeds : Which one to choose?

Yahoo
Google
Weather channel
WeatherZone
..and the list goes on!

In my view, Yahoo weather feeds are the best one (powered by Wheather Channel) and provide fastest updates. But wait ! You can not use them for commerical purpose. See their Terms of use here : http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

Google weather APIs are used for iGoogle and are private to them. So can't use!

Weather channel is the paid one.

WeatherZone can be the best choice although provide updates later then Yahoo. But you can use them on your website (not mentioning any non-commercial/non-profit like stuff). You can see their terms of use on this link : http://www.weatherzone.com.au/services/rss.jsp

If you have any weather API/feed please share its detail here.