• TNWiki Article Spotlight: Small Basic Portal

    Wiki: Small Basic Portal

    This article is a portal that categorically lists all the Small Basic articles that are on TechNet Wiki. Please add more Wiki articles about Small Basic here:

    Wiki: Small Basic Portal

     

    Before we unravel this article, did you know that Small Basic is the perfect tool for kids to learn how to program? It used to be that a dad would put his tweenager down in front of Visual Basic, they'd scratch their head and run off.

    But now we have Kodu for the little ones (my Four year old daughter is learning it; I'm starting my Three year old on developing some basic mouse and click skills in Purble Place and Paint). And then I'll start my 7 and 8 year old daughters on Small Basic soon (they're progressing through Kodu quickly).

    I made this blog post that gives 47 testimonies of kids, age 8-13, who have used and learned programming on Small Basic (my kids aren't even on this list yet): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2012/10/25/small-basic-elementary-student-testimonials.aspx

    Now, we'll take a snapshot in time of the goodness you can currently find on this portal...

    Getting Started

    Overview

    Advanced Tips

    Extensions

    How To

    Samples

    Software Built with Small Basic

    Troubleshooting and Known Issues

     

    And then also check out all the other portals on this page:

      

    And make sure you go here for all the latest Small Basic articles: Wiki: Small Basic Portal

     

    In the portal article comments, I think Jibba Jabba sums up my thoughts about this article as well:

    - "Awesome"

     

    Have a great Wikiweek

      - Ninja Ed

  • Interview with a Wiki Ninja and System Center MVP - Mustafa KARA

    Welcome to an interview with a Wiki Ninja! Today's interview is with...

    Mustafa KARA - MVP

    Although Mustafa is new to TechNet Wiki, he has already made a big impact!

    He has 94 Wiki articles, 172 article edits, and 5 comments on those articles! Thank you Mustafa for your contributions! Let's get started...

     

    Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?

    My Name is Mustafa Kara. I am from Adana and I live in Istanbul, Turkey.

    My IT story began with my school. I graduated from the computer department of a technical high school. And also my university and master degree was in computer science. I have been working as a professional in the IT sector for 12 years. I am a lucky person who is working in a job that I love.

    I have been working for the Bilge Adam IT Company for many years. I am an expert in the following technologies.

    • Windows Server product family

    • System Center Datacenter Management Solutions

    • Windows Azure and Hyper-V

    I have led projects, training classes, and consultancy services for these technologies. I have finished 15,000 hours both corporate and enterprise training classes. I have done many projects for both public and enterprise companies. Some of my projects became case studies from Microsoft.

    I like very much both reading and writing. Until now, I have written thousands of technical articles and they are published in the biggest IT portals in Turkey. I am still writing for some of these portals and also I am the community lead and editor in these portals. I have presented to thousands of attendees for teaching, and I help popularize IT the most in some of the biggest universities in Turkey.  

    For 3 years I have been awarded MVP in the field of System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management. Each month I am posting many articles on my blog.

     

    Mustafa KARA - MVP's avatar

      

    What are your big projects ?

    I have done many big projects in Turkey for enterprise companies. You can see a list of my projects on the link below.  

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/kurumsal-danismanlik

    Because of project capacity, I also take pride in my work on these projects...

    Borusan Holding, System Center 2012 Data Center Project

    Coca Cola Turkey SCOM 2012 Advanced Monitoring Project

    TEB Bank SCCM 2012 Project which is listed as a Case Study by Microsoft.

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/wp-content/uploads/TEB-SCCM-2012-Projesi-Başarı-Hikayesi.pdf

     

    Where do you contribute? 

    I think the best portal in Turkey was www.sistemuzmani.com. I was a writer, editor, and manager for many years in this portal. Because it was the first big IT community in Turkey, it had many qualified trainers.

    Because of the trainer, writer, and content quality, www.sistemuzmani.com  led for many popular IT portals in Turkey now. I have contributing in www.mshowto.org and on my blog. Mshowto is one of best portals for IT community that has been published to date, with dynamic and correct technical knowledge. I have published nearly 952 articles, videos, webcasts, and other content.

     

    On what blog posts do you spend most of your time? 

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-2007-r2-audit-collection-server-acs-episode-2.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-2012-agent-kurulumu-workgrouptaki-makineye-manuel-kurulum.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-rms-root-management-server-kurulumu.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-2012-notification-uyari-konfigurasyonunun-yapilmasi-bolum-1.html

     

    What are your top 5 favorite blog posts that you've written?

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-2012-service-level-dashboard-yapilandirma.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-2012-agent-kurulumu-domaindeki-makineye-manuel-kurulum.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-hakkinda-bilinmesi-gerekenler.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/scom-2012-web-view-widget.html

    http://www.mustafakara.net.tr/system-center-operations-manager/system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-olusturan-bilesenler.html

     

    Now that you're on TechNet Wiki, what are some of the articles that you've brought over to the Wiki community?

    SCOM 2012′ye SP1 Yukleme Bolum -1 (tr-TR)

    SCOM 2012 R2 Operational Database Nasıl Taşınır ? (tr-TR)

    System Center 2012 Ürünleri ile Sıfırdan Adım Adım Private Cloud Yapısının Oluşturulması (tr-TR)

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Yenilikleri Nelerdir? (tr-TR)

    MS Datacenter TCO Analysis Tool (Veri Merkezi Maliyet Hesaplama Araçı) (tr-TR)

    System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Host Eklenmesi (Hyper-V Hostlar) (tr-TR)

    Seal Management Pack Yapma (Unseal MP Convert to Seal MP) (tr-TR)

     

    What would you recommend to people who aspire to be an MVP? 

    People who aspire to be MVP should like researching, learning, and publishing. MVP candidate should like information sharing. And also I think candidates should have personal expression skills.

     

    Who are your top 5 favorite MVPs?

    Emre Aydın

    Baki Onur Okutucu

    Serkan Varoğlu

    Ahmet Uygur

    Ahmet Mutlu

     

    Who are the MVP candidates in Turkey who you recommend?

    I have been following Barış Cihan Aydoğmuşoğlu’s articles for many years, Barış has really powerful expression and writing skills. He is writing articles that are very detailed. Onur Yüksektepeli has a deep knowledge in end-user technologies. And Okan Eke is growing very much and getting experienced. These contributors are my recommended MVP candidates for the near future. 

     

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    Thank you to Mustafa for this great interview! And thank you to all our Turkish MVPs and future candidates for all your community contributions!

       - Ninja Ed 

  • Sunday Surprise - Introducing new Transact-SQL eBook!

    Good Sunday to you all,

    As you may all remember, at the end of November Gokan Ozcifci published this blog post First TechNet Wiki Ninjas eBook: "The Wiki Ninjas Guide to SharePoint 2013". I really liked the idea of creating that book and immediately thought that we may want to follow this great initiative and create a Transact-SQL e-book. I added a comment to that blog post and was very pleasantly surprised a few days later by being contacted by Saeid Hasani who offered his help in book preparation.

    So, I decided I'll take a role of the boss and let Saeid work on preparing the book :) which he did splendidly. Several weeks later we were discussing this new e-book in Skype Group and when Durval Ramos heard about our plans with the book, he got very excited about the idea and also joined our team.

    UPDATE. After we published the first version of this eBook we found that two articles were inadvertently missing. So we added them back and published the eBook again. At this stage Ronen Ariely joined our team and helped us to fix all the Guest Authors profiles to be direct links.  

    So, now I am very happy to introduce our first Transact-SQL eBook which is created by combining many great SQL Server articles in TechNet Wiki.

    This eBook now consists of 51 articles written by 18 authors! Special thanks to all the TechNet Wiki Community authors who contributed articles in this eBook:

    You can also find the alphabetical list of authors on the Gallery download page: Transact-SQL by TechNet Wiki Community

    I hope you will enjoy this book, which you can Download here (click on the link).

    Happy reading!

  • Top Contributors Awards! SQL Server, EBooks, Exchange Server 2013, and this year's featured article nominees are....

    Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week.

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

     

    Craig leading the weekly stats thanks partly to all the hard work he's been putting in lately on his new crawler and tag curator tool. Nice work Craig!

    MVP Mustafa keeping his hand in with a batch of new articles lately!

     

    As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

     

    Ninja Award Most Revisions Award  
    Who has made the most individual revisions

     

    #1 Craig Lussier with 206 revisions.

      

    #2 Mustafa KARA - MVP with 150 revisions.

      

    #3 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 76 revisions.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
     

    #4 Alan Nascimento Carlos with 70 revisions.

      

    #5 Durval Ramos with 67 revisions.

      

    #6 JoeyDj with 55 revisions.

      

    #7 Richard Mueller with 53 revisions.

      

    #8 Ed Price - MSFT with 51 revisions.

      

    #9 Lucas Camargo Reis with 47 revisions.

      

    #10 Carsten Siemens with 42 revisions.

      

    Ninja Award Most Articles Updated Award  
    Who has updated the most articles

     

    #1 Craig Lussier with 185 articles.

      

    #2 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 66 articles.

      

    #3 Mustafa KARA - MVP with 58 articles.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:
     

    #4 Durval Ramos with 41 articles.

      

    #5 Alan Nascimento Carlos with 29 articles.

      

    #6 Lucas Camargo Reis with 29 articles.

      

    #7 Ed Price - MSFT with 26 articles.

      

    #8 Carsten Siemens with 24 articles.

      

    #9 Davut EREN - TAT with 17 articles.

      

    #10 Richard Mueller with 13 articles.

      

    Ninja Award Most Updated Article Award  
    Largest amount of updated content in a single article

     

    The article to have the most change this week was SQL Server: Misleading Database Initial Size Label, by Praveen Rayan D'sa

    This week's revisers were Praveen Rayan D'sa & Peter Geelen - MSFT

    Ohhh yum yum, look at the eye candy images, professional and polished sections, and well conceived presentation.

    Another sensational contribution from Praveen. Also note the response (comments) to someone helping to buff it further. A great community member.

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week

     

    This week's largest document to get some attention is E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies, by Monica Rush

    This week's revisers were Hasan Dimdik - TAT & Craig Lussier

    Always worth a mention when it gets a tweak, as it is one of my favourite pages of the wiki.

    Just making sure any new readers also have it bookmarked.

     

    While I'm here, another huge document to get some attention is TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees, by Eric Battalio

    This week's reviser was Ed Price - MSFT,

    This is where it's @ if you want to get up there on the home page of TechNet Wiki.

    A growing number of esteemed writers to hold the privilege of such recognition is steadily growing.

     

    Ninja Award Most Revised Article Award  
    Article with the most revisions in a week

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is SQL Server 2012 Database Partitioning, by JoeyDj. It was revised 42 times last week.

    This week's revisers were JoeyDj & Benoit Jester - MTFC

    Tadaaa!! Another awesome arrival from the one and only JoeyDj.

    Even added a comment referring back to the forum discussion for it.

     

    JoeyDj danced to the top of the charts this week, knocking TechNet Guru Contributions for January 2014, by XAML guy (me) into second!

    Guru Contributions were revised 28 times last week with a great flurry of activity, as the first competition of 2014 comes to a close, with only SIX days left!

    This week's many revisers were Ken Tucker, pituach, Mohammad Nizamuddin, sqlsaga, BradHeld, Praveen Rayan D'sa, Steven Andrews, Richard Mueller, Tim Pacl, Mohit Kumar Gupta, Tomasso Groenendijk, Srithar, Firdous S - MSFT, Chitvan Jain, Carsten Siemens, Eihab Isaac, Mr X, OasisLiveForever & AB82

    Also worth a mention are the following obsessives:

    Turkish Avengers Team Council Center, by Gokan Ozcifci. It was revised 18 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Hasan Dimdik - TAT, Ugur Demir - TAT, Craig Lussier, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT, Recep YÜKSEL - TAT & Davut EREN - TAT

     

    SQL Server Memory and Troubleshooting, by Shanky_621. It was revised 18 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Shanky_621 & Naomi N

     

    Wiki: Test Issues, by Richard Mueller. It was revised 16 times last week.

    This week's reviser was Richard Mueller,

     

    Active Directory: Ambiguous Name Resolution, by Richard Mueller. It was revised 13 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Richard Mueller, Ed Price - MSFT & Hasan Dimdik - TAT

     

    TechNet Wiki: Featured Article Teams, by Ed Price - MSFT. It was revised 13 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Ed Price - MSFT, Durval Ramos & Gokan Ozcifci

    Virtualized Domain Controllers in Windows 2012, by Deepak Kotian - Ratish. It was revised 12 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Benoit Jester - MTFC & Deepak Kotian - Ratish

     

    SQL Server Change Data Capture (CDC), by JoeyDj. It was revised 12 times last week.

    This week's revisers were JoeyDj & Richard Mueller

     

    Como ler o log de erros do SQL Server através do Powershell, by Demétrio Silva. It was revised 12 times last week.

    This week's reviser was Demétrio Silva,

     

    Thank you all for your hard work!

     

    Ninja Award Most Popular Article Award  
    Collaboration is the name of the game!

     

    The article to be updated by the most people this week is TechNet Guru Contributions for January 2014, by XAML guy

    This week's revisers were Ken Tucker, pituach, Mohammad Nizamuddin, sqlsaga, BradHeld, Praveen Rayan D'sa, Steven Andrews, Richard Mueller, Tim Pacl, Mohit Kumar Gupta, Tomasso Groenendijk, Srithar, Firdous S - MSFT, Chitvan Jain, Carsten Siemens, Eihab Isaac, Mr X, OasisLiveForever & AB82

     

    The article to be updated by the second most people this week is another regular, Turkish Avengers Team Council Center, by Gokan Ozcifci

    This week's revisers were Hasan Dimdik - TAT, Ugur Demir - TAT, Craig Lussier, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT, Recep YÜKSEL - TAT & Davut EREN - TAT

     

    So I highlight the article to be updated by the third most people this week is Exchange Server 2013 Kurulum ve Konfigürasyonu – Bölüm-2 (tr-TR), by Recep YÜKSEL - TAT

    This week's revisers were Hasan Dimdik - TAT, Craig Lussier, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT, Faik GENÇ -TAT & Davut EREN - TAT

    Since it's arrival, this month, it has had a number buffs and polishes from Recep's TAT colleagues and Craig.

    I always think any attention to an article, once published is great news, as it shows it is touching people, and they are encouraged to improve it.

    What greater compliment could you get. Better that, than it gather dust and never see the light of day.

    Thank you to Recep for your continuously awesome input, and to the TAT band of brothers for showing real team work. 

     

    Ninja Award Ninja Edit Award  
    A ninja needs lightning fast reactions!

     

    Below is a list of this week's fastest ninja edits. That's an edit to an article after another person

    Congratulations Elguc and Benoit! 
    Also worth a mention are those also in the top ten:

    Another sensational week of contributions from many heavy weights and a few new comers!

     
    Please join me again next week for more awesomeness, and maybe something from you?!

     

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker

     

  • Friday International Update - The Portuguese Winning Translations!

    Once again, a special thanks go out to the Portuguese team for winning our Translation Challenge. See all the winner info here:

    WINNERS of the 2013 TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge!!! - Find out who won: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Turkish!!!

    The grand total numbers:

    • 205 articles!
    • Translated into 8 languages!
    • By 11 translators!
    • In just 7 weeks!

     

    Let's take a closer look at the contributions of the Portuguese team, our Translation Challenge Winners!

    Portuguese - 95 articles!

     

    First, here are all their contributions to this Translation Challenge:

     See Translated into Portuguese.

     

    I'm especially excited to see so many articles translated that are core articles about TechNet Wiki! This will help all future Portuguese authors learn about how to contribute to TechNet Wiki:

     

    And thanks again to our three contributors:

     - 91 articles

    Durval Ramos's avatar 

    - 3 articles

    Hezequias Vasconcelos - MTFC's avatar 

     - 1 article

    Marcelo S. Gonçalves's avatar 

     

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

       - Ninja Ed

    PS: The Community Council just met today and talked about Curah!, Wiki Ninjas Belts (automating this), and Wiki Ninjas Dojo. You've been spoiled. With a spoiler. That's what that was. Okay, bye.