Tuesday, April 25, 2006
eqo's Mobile-to-Skype buddy list solution: "Essentially, eqo acts as the 'glue' betwen online communities such as LinkedIn, MySpaces, orkut, or Skype with mobile carriers such as T-Mobile, Cingular, Vodaphone, etc... Once eqo adds support for other popular IM communities, this software will be similar to Tello, which is a service-based (and fee-based) model that lets you "rent" aggregated presence information across several popular IM services. The major differences between the two are that eqo is currently free and eqo is designed for mobile phones where as Tello is a Windows application."
The Raptor Has Landed: Using Oracle's New Free PL/SQL IDE: "Like JDeveloper, SQL Developer remote debugging uses DBMS_DEBUG_JDWP, a server-side package based on Sun's Java Debug Wire Protocol. (It's a little-known fact that you can also use JDeveloper to debug PL/SQL that executes both locally and remotely, using the same mechanism.) "
'We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: Laziness Impatience Hubris' -- LarryWall
WCF interop in the real world -- it's harder than you think: "During one of PluralSight's WCF courses, he decided to integrate the WCF app with eBay's SOAP API. 'Little did I know at the time how much fun awaited me,' Skonnard wrote in his blog entry summarizing the day's events"
Monday, April 24, 2006
J.D. Power Consumer Center View Ratings - Boats 2006 & J.D. Power Best Boat Votes for 2005 : Part 1 & Marine Engines - Four Cycle Engines
Google Directory - Recreation > Travel > Travelogues: "1) Virtual Tourist - Travel community with photos, travelogues, destinations, postcards, forums and chat areas..."
CakePHP for beginners: A quick guide for the curious: "Cake is a framework for PHP in the same way that Rails is for Ruby. Essentially, it's a tool designed to help PHP developers avoid reinventing the wheel all the time." - COOL
Blogging Roller: Free as in beer IDEs from MSFT: "I recently upgraded the RSS and Atom in Action examples to .NET 2.0 using the express editions of Visual Studio C# 2005 and Visual Web Developer 2005. My overall impressions were mixed. I was a little disappointed that I had to install two completely separate IDEs to get C# development ASP.NET development capabilties, but I was glad to see that Visual Web Dev. includes a test web server, so you don't have to muck with IIS."
The Apache Portals Site - Apache Portals: "The Bridges subproject includes common code and demos for the use of common web frameworks via portlets. Currently there is support for writing portlets using JSF, Struts, perl CGI scripts, php code and Velocity templates. Jetspeed-2 includes demos for those technologies." & Rick Hightower's Sleepless Night in Tucson : Weblog - Pluto: Faster, Lighter Portal Development Env? PAIN: "The 'getting started' guide is called 'Portal Driver User Guide' not 'Developer's Guide'. You can find said guide here: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/userguide/portal.html. Don't bother spedunking throught the rest of the site, you want to read this document first. It is not well advertised... "
Only4Gurus - Newsletter 2.0: "SQL Server Express Edition - We upped the DB size limit from 2GB to 4 GB as that was just a reflection on how much data was being generated and was useful to customers. Let me repeat for clarity THERE IS NO WORKLOAD GOVERNOR IN SQL SERVER EXPRESS EDITION."
Mighty Seek - Web Application Security Podcast and Blog » PodPress: "A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress." (Video Tutorial)
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Google Directory - Home > Consumer Information: "4) EConsumer.gov - Provides information on consumer protection laws in thirteen countries and offers consumers a way to file complaints online. 5) JD Power Information Center - Using consumer satisfaction data collected, this site provides consumers information to help them in their buying decisions. 6) ConsumerSearch.com - Reviewing the Reviewers - Database of categorized consumer product reviews from a variety of news and trade publications. For each product, it ranks and describes all reviews, provides a full story of expert analysis, and lists top rated products by category. 7) Canadian Consumer Information - Consumer information guides covering a variety of topics including children, consumer products and services, environment, food, health, housing and finance. 8) ConsumerReview.com - Consumer-generated product reviews, ratings, prices for brands and models. 9) Consumers' Checkbook - This independent, non-profit consumer authority provides articles and ratings for local services in the United States..." - START
ConsumerReports.org - PDA downloads: "You can download select individual Ratings reports to Palm, Windows CE, and Pocket PC handheld devices. Just follow the instructions below to take your reports with you!" - COOL
treo Addicts » Blog Archive » Google Talk on your Treo & Chatopus - Palm OS Instant Messaging Client For XMPP / Jabber: "it also supports the transport aspects of Jabber, allowing users to establish links to other instant messaging solutions including MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, GaduGadu, Sametime and others." & Sending SMS with your Jabber Client: "The SMS gateway allows you to send SMS messages to over 100 countries and 450 mobile networks (see http://www.aspsms.com/ supportednetworks.asp). Each normal text SMS message will only cost around 7.5 cents (US) for all countries. There is no setup fee."
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
freshmeat.net: Project details for EasyEclipse: "This version adds five distributions with support for Java, PHP, Ruby, Perl, and Python and over 60 plugins assembled to work together. The five distributions are Starter Java, Desktop Java, Server Java, Mobile Java, and LAMP" - NICE
freshmeat.net: Project details for Unimaginatively-named Calendar: "Subscriptions can be created to pull events from remote iCalendar sources and, of course, Sunbird and iCal users can subscribe"
Home - Lambda Probe: "the ultimate tool for monitoring and management of Apache Tomcat instance in real time. Lambda Probe will help you to visualise real time information about Apache Tomcat instance via easy to use and friendly web interface."
Kick-start your Java apps, Part 2: "This tutorial shows you how to move an application from a conventional design to one based on Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology... The application interactively fetches and displays employee information, including a photo, from a DB2 Express-C database... WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V1.0.0.1"
Brian Keller - Product Manager for XNA : Free Microsoft .NET training for Java Developers: "To access this training, please visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java/migrate/workshop" & Java to .NET Framework Migration Workshop: Migrating JDK 1.4 Applications and Code
Help / Selling at Amazon.com / Amazon Marketplace / How to Identify ISBNs, UPCs, and ASINs & Amazon.com Help: Inventory Loader / Building Your Spreadsheet: "UPC (Universal Product Code) is a number used to identify almost all items sold in the USA. (Books are also typically assigned a UPC, but the ISBN is more commonly used.)" & GS1 US BarCodes and eCom: Learn How Build Your U.P.C. bar code & Before you Buy: "Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC also called SSCC-18)... The following will seem quite cryptic to a newcomer to shipping container marking so I strongly suggest that you first read and understand GS1 US’s guide" & Small User: "Do you need only a few numbers? 2004 - 2006: In the past I have told everyone that the only place to obtain a legitimate U.P.C. number is from the GS1 US (formerly UCC)... GS1 US has implemented the Variable Length Prefix but it no more friendly to the small user than before. (See Update for the small user.) Therefore my advice to those needing only a few numbers remains the same: Buy the number where you get the best bargain." & European Article Number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "EAN-13 is used world-wide for marking retail goods. The symbol encodes 13 characters" & ISBN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Because of a pending shortage in certain ISBN categories, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) started migrating to a thirteen-digit ISBN (sometimes referred to as ISBN-13)" & GS1 - The global language of business - Home: "Tools for viewing and navigating GS1 XML 2.0.2 "
Thursday, April 20, 2006
www.centos.org - Forums - General Support - Install & configure of XServer: "The install I started with Asterisk@home did not include the ability to use a graphic desktop." & www.centos.org - FAQ - General CentOS Questions - Can I add X to my server after install? or I installed from the Server ISO and it didn't install X, how do I install X?: "yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)' You may also want to add some other groups from the list like 'Graphical Internet' or 'Office/Productivity'" & LinuxQuestions.org - LQWiki - Run Levels: "Most often, one can tune the run level configuration via the chkconfig command, or start and stop these initialization scripts via the service command:..." & [CentOS] Configuring X after instal on CentOS4: "system-config-display"
Linux Today - Torvalds Re-Kindles GNOME vs. KDE: "Torvalds weighed in with strong words regarding the GNOME interface and encouraged others to switch to KDE." & Gnome vs. KDE-Linux Newbie-Linux Forums
[CentOS] yum install x windows?: "yum grouplist and yum groupinstall are what you want to use with yum... e.g. yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 'GNOME Desktop Environment' 'Sound and Video'" - TIP
SIPBroker - Login: "a free service that interconnects millions of users from all around the world and improves your VoIP telephone experience in several ways..."
Installing AsterFax: Asterisk @ Home, Install Java 5, Install Ghostscript - e.g. yum -y install ghostscript, Install X11 - e.g. yum -y install Xvfb, Install OpenOffice 2.0 - e.g. yum -y install openoffice.org, Install AsterFax, ...
asterisk@home 2.8 just out - Asterisk - Voice over IP: "I have been your fan for your DUMB me Guide. Often a lot of inspiration came from your guide to help set up A@H v2.5 then and v2.8 now... The #70 is now #700. Your calls will be parked at 701 - 799 (instead of the old one of 71-79)."
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
MCC: "It's a rework of famous Asterisk Stats written by Areski. The main goal for this project is to concentrate more on PDF reports (managers love them!)"
TARION - Maintaining Your Home: "As an additional service to new homeowners, Tarion has developed Home Maintenance Checklists. Each checklist (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) includes a monthly breakdown of items for inspection, and are intended to assist homeowners to set up a regular schedule of check-ups and clean-ups. "
TARION - About TARION: "Tarion Warranty Corporation is responsible for administering the Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act, which outlines the warranty protection that new home and condominium builders must provide, by law, to their customers"
Monday, April 17, 2006
ZIP Code Boundaries: "A MySQL database for creating ZIP Code outlines in Google Maps and other mapping applications. These ZIP Code boundaries are derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Zip Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)."
Running J2ME Applications on Palm-powered Devices: "Learn how to migrate your Enterprise J2ME applications to Palm-Powered devices including the Treo 650 and Palm LifeDrive."
sourcebot from Bloke.com: "I have put up an on-line Java Decompiler. Simply enter the URL of the .class file below to see the source"
Friday, April 14, 2006
PimpMyCamino & Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style.: "The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design."
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Really Useful Fitness Blog: Expert Article: Improve your body pH, boost your energy!: "One of the best ways to increase your energy level naturally is to improve your body's pH balance. Here's a great article on the subject... Clicking on the following link will take you to some pages I created that have more information on alkaline and acid foods, how to test your own pH and what to look for in green drinks..."
ServiceBAT provides guidance, patterns for architects: "Microsoft's PAG Team has released the Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit, or ServiceBAT. This offers help for those designing and building services using WCF or ASMX, as Edward Bakker describes and demonstrates here."
Short Demo Movie | WASP: "Here is a short 2 minute H.264 movie demonstrating the simplicity of creating web applications using WASP for PHP. This movie goes from 0 to working WASP page in 2 minutes flat... Be sure to check out the WASP How-To."
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