Bill Gates’ Vision on Zero CO2 Emission by 2050
This is an interesting talk by Bill Gates about his vision to reduce the amount of 
How to download MMS streaming video
MMS (Microsoft Media Server) is Microsoft's streaming protocol used to transfer data in Windows Media Services. Since this streaming data is meant to be played in client-side streaming application, it is not an obvious thing to do if we intend to download/save the streaming video to our local drive.
SharePoint Web Part Custom Properties
In my current project, I am creating a SharePoint web part that simply renders a custom .NET User Control from a certain location. I want the user to be able to configure the User Control's properties through the Web Part properties. Therefore I followed the MSDN instruction on how to create a web part with custom properties. However, somehow the custom properties just doesn't show up.
So, after scratching my head for a couple of hours (not literally), I found something that, I think, was not accurately specified:
- Personalizable attribute needs to be specified
- Use WebBrowsable instead of Browsable attribute
This is the code-snippet that works for me:
[Category("Custom Properties")]
[DefaultValue(true)]
[Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.Shared)]
[WebPartStorage(Storage.Shared)]
[FriendlyNameAttribute("Include lists")]
[WebBrowsable(true)]
[XmlElement(ElementName = "IncludeLists")]
public bool IncludeLists { get; set; }