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inTegrate: Denim for Windows Apps
Leszynski Group - Tablet PC Downloads - inTegrate: Are you a VB developers, frustrated that tools like Denim are only available for Web interfaces? Never fear, inTegrate does the same thing for windowed apps. It plugs into Visual Studio and lets you "draw" controls that it will put on your ...
Published: June 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Microsoft Open Sources Something?
SourceForge.net: Project Info - Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset: Apparently Microsoft posted this source over at SourceForge. The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to ...
Published: April 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 735
Enterprise Architecture: Top-Down Makes My Head Hurt
My buddy Rob and I were talking the other day about top-down vs. bottom-up entrerprise architectures. My last company attempted to implement a top-down architecture, where every system was planned out as to where it fit in the grand scheme and everything was on one big server under one language, ...
Published: April 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 734
Programmers Are Idiots
So I'm out here in Boston (home of the Free Speech Zone) at a seminar on distributed enterprise application development. The instructor is Pinku Surana, who certainly seems to know his stuff. I found this interesting article in his blog, where he argues that programmers are idiots, and I have ...
Published: August 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 731
Microsoft Content as a Web Service
Microsoft.com Web Services: Microsoft has opened up a bunch of their content as a Web service. "The Microsoft.com Web Service is an XML Web service that will enable you to integrate information and services from MSDN, Technet, other Microsoft.com sites, and Microsoft Support." It's not anonymous you need to ...
Published: August 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 729
The Basecamp API
Basecamp API: The Basecamp API has landed. The API allows programmers to access/read/write Basecamp data from third-party systems like OS X dashboard widgets, Yahoo/Confabulator widgets, web sites, back-office systems, billing systems, and more. The API allows Basecamp to integrate with a variety of other products and systems. Prepare for some ...
Published: March 27, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 726
New O'Reilly Book on Screen Scraping
Spidering Hacks : 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools: The art of screen-scraping just got a Bible. "...Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools [...]. and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and ...
Published: November 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 710
iPods Have Wheels Now
Automakers trick out rides with iPods: It will be interesting to see how competition plays out here. I could see Apple getting dominant in this market, and making it hard for anyone else to compete. In the latest boost to its dominance of portable music players, Apple Computer Inc. has ...
Published: August 4, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 706
Google Custom Search Business Edition
Google Custom Search Business Edition: I ve been waiting for this for ages now. It s Google search for your own site, but with much more control than the old site:mysite.com method. With this, you pay $100 per year for the basic plan, but you can get the results in XML, which ...
Published: July 17, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 705
A One And A Two...
Now I think I may have seen it all Roland is now building, of all things, a digital accordion. Roland is pleased to introduce another milestone in digital musical instrument history —the V-Accordion. Models FR-7 and FR-5 are the first instruments of their type to successfully integrate powerful digital ...
Published: October 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 702
Lightning: Mozilla Strikes Again
Given the growing success of Firefox, a new Mozilla-based project code-named 'Lightning' may be worth keeping an eye on. Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. [...] Q. Is Lightning meant as a competitor to Outlook? A. With ...
Published: December 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 697
Syndication with JavaScript
JavaScript Syndication: How to Easily Syndicate Your Web Content: Here's an extremely well-done article on using JavaScript includes to syndicate your content. Very in-depth with many code samples and diagrams. If you are syndicating to websites that are not under your control, you don't know that the webmaster will have ...
Published: July 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 697
Enterprise IM
Instant messengers take corporate world by storm: A quick look at IM in the enterprise. This has been talked about a lot, but I've never seen it actually take off anywhere. "...many are awaiting the entry of Microsoft. The software giant already offers consumer-grade IM and included a corporate messaging ...
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
More on Wal-Mart and RFIDs
Wal-Mart Plan Could Cost Suppliers Millions: More information on the RFID plan that Wal-Mart is forging ahead with. "Wal-Mart said in June that it expected its top 100 suppliers to adopt the technology by the end of 2004 and the rest of its suppliers to do so in 2005. In ...
Published: November 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
He's Got a Mouth on Him
As part of their coverage of Microsoft's recent broad settlement with Sun, CNET has compiled a short list of Scott McNealy's snarky comments regarding Microsoft. A lot of it is a bit over the top, but it's all pretty funny. My favorite: "the Corvair of Web servers, unsafe at any ...
Published: April 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
PHP.net URL Shortcuts
PHP: URL Howto: This is a little known but great feature of the PHP Web site. If you write in a PHP.net URL, like http://www.php.net/links, first this URL is matched against the PHP.net pages. If there is a page named links.php, then you'll get that page immediately. This type of ...
Published: December 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 684
SQL Server Notification Services
Microsoft SQL Server: Notification Services Product Overview: It strikes me that this would integrate RSS publishing directly into the database server, without needing a Web server as middleware. Organizations can send focused, relevant communications to their customers and employees. These notifications can contain links back to the organization's Web site ...
Published: June 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 681
ColdFusion: The Undead Scripting Language
So it's 2000, and you're happily writing your web apps in ColdFusion. Then Allaire is bought out by Macromedia, the Sun sales rep drops by and takes your IT director to lunch, and now things are migrating to Java, your IT director has a snazzy leather jacket, and you're stuck ...
Published: July 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 673
Microsoft Six Sigma "Accelerator"
Q&A: Microsoft Accelerator Boosts Six Sigma Practices: Microsoft is pushing a set of add-ons for Office and Project that make the software play nice within a Six Sigma methodology framework. For instance: A lot of Six Sigma teams spend an inordinate amount of time creating Microsoft PowerPoint reports, such as ...
Published: June 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 666
Selling Software as An API
Content Tools Expanded: Interwoven is doing something with TeamSite 6.0 that has been on my mind for a while now. "...allows content management features, such as workflow and versioning, to be accessed from within Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Corp. .Net-based applications as WSDL (Web Services Description Language) ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
MSN and Yahoo Join Forces
ArsTechnica tells us that Microsoft and Yahoo will integrate their IM Networks. Sources tell me that Microsoft and Yahoo will announce a new partnership tomorrow that includes Instant Messaging network sharing that will effectively allow MSN Messenger users to talk to Yahoo's IM users, and vice versa. While details are ...
Published: October 12, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Quicksilver
File this one under "One More Reason To Like OS X". Although Quicksilver has been around for a while (Rob made brief mention of it last year) I just discovered it after following a short rabbit trail that started with a Lifehhacker interview with 43Folders' Merlin Mann. I can already ...
Published: April 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
GNOME 2.8
The GNOME Foundation is set to release version 2.8 of the GNOME Desktop today. The major change in this release is the inclusion of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), designed to make hardware 'just work'. So, if you plug in your jump drive, the drive icon magically shows up on ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
Content Publishing Models
When you get neck deep into a content management implementation, you can lose sight of the actual publishing mechanism-- how the content gets from your system to the end user's browser. No matter how sophisticated your CMS is, at some point, a user enters a URL and some content comes ...
Published: June 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
Web Apps Rule the Organization
IDevelopers show their independent streak, favoring Web-based apps: Big frameworks and multi-layered architectures seem great in theory, but I've yet to see them work really well in practice. This seems to be the feeling coming out of this programming survey as well. "Web applications rule the enterprise. That's the indisputable ...
Published: October 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 624
The Cluetrain Manifesto
I bought "The Cluetrain Manifesto" to fill a four hour wait at the Orlando airport. When I settled down to read it, I noticed the subtitle on the cover: "The end of business as usual." I felt a sense of impending doom that phrase is as hackeneyed and worthless ...
Published: February 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 618
Calling Scripts Pre- and Post-Batch
Here s a request for all software developers building software that does batch processing: PDFMoto, Movable Type any program that re-publishes as a single event. Include functionality to allow me to call an arbitrary script before and after the batch process. There are a lot of things I may want ...
Published: July 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 603
Wherefore Art Thou, Schema Validation?
One kink I ve recently noticed in a number of scripting languages geared towards producing web apps is the utter lack of support for XML Schema. I m surprised by this, since a good Schema validator can save a lot of code when used properly. For those who may not be familiar ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 599
Open-Sourced Groupware: Contenders for the Throne
If you've read this blog, you may have picked up on the fact that I'm a bit of an open-source advocate. I far prefer to use open-source solutions wherever possible. By and large, open-source doesn't get enough credit. I've run Linux and KDE as my primary work environment on my ...
Published: February 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 585
Movable Type Email Review Mod
Movable Type doesn't have a content review system. You can write an entry and leave it in "Draft" status, but no one knows about it unless they go looking for it. In practice, this can be a pain. New authors to Gadgetopia are told to leave their first dozen or ...
Published: October 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 550
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