Almost everyday I see new stuffs coming out of Beta or CTP releases from Microsoft. It used to be exciting but the list of products and technologies is getting bigger and bigger everyday. WPF, WF, Silverlight, Powershell, SSIS, SSDS, EF, LINQ, WCF, Data Services, XAML, Asp.Net AJAX, Asp.Net MVC blah blah.. Since I am in a Technical rol...
Hi, Soon, I'll start my own software company. My primary product/solution will be a Billing/Invoice Software. In a near future, I pretend to expand this first module to an ERP. My app should be able to run as a stand-alone application and as a Web-based application (so there will be, probably two GUI for the same Database). My problem, ...
Does any body know what powers Google Charts? I have been using it for a while but not sure what Google used to build it. ...
For customer service week this year, I have the privileged task of creating a technology themed gift basket. I'm trying to keep the basket under $50 as I have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo that I'll be adding to it. Besides canned air and monitor wipes, are there any other recommendations for a PC based basket? I was thinking about a ...
For my area, I get the updates from ww.asp.net code.google.com www.webmasterworld.com What others do you highly recommend? ...
what is the best way to start a technology venture? I don't know the first thing about code or programming but I have a great idea. Is there a book out there that could get me started? ...
Today as I booted up Visual Studio 2008 to do my work, I saw on the Start page a new blog post about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. I can't help but feel a little overwhelmed. I am just starting to come to grip with all the stuff Microsoft added in .NET 3.0 & 3.5 (LINQ, WPF, lambda functions, etc, etc).... I know these things are no ...
which were your achievements in programming in 2008? what technologies surprise you or learn this year and what do you expect in programming terms in 2009 Edit: Changed to Wiki ...
Hi, I am looking to develop a custom phone (consumer item) which people can purchase in the market. I am wondering whats the best way to go about it? Basically am looking for a cheap phone on which I can customize the firmware as per my requirements. Something like Android but the price should be cheaper like 100$. I dont mind using a c...
I always wondered why people are still running older web browsers until I started at my current job. Here I am forced to use IE6 to develop all of our internal applications, as our target users also are using IE6. Is anyone else in a situation where they aren't allowed to run the latest technology, and what is stopping you? Have you trie...
My bank account, a lot of client information, accounting, insurance and whole lot of other mission critical data is still running on mainframes and/or AS400s (iSeries?). COBOL, RPG, CICS and a number of other older technologies still dominate the mission critical core data for most Fortune 500 companies. The really big question is how ...
We just purchased a webcam to visually monitor some equipment remotely. Currently we are monitoring thorough the intranet only. The software that came with the webcam is installed on the computer that is physically connected to the webcam. From anywhere on the intranet, I can type that computer's address in the browser, for ex., http://1...
.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC - there's really a lot of new Microsoft technology released / on the horizon to try out these days. (The examples I gave is all Microsoft technology but this can apply to any language or platform). I am curious how this is handled in the company you work for. A few examples: Do you have...
Hey does anybody know technologies that vimeo uses? I know they use mysql for the db, not sure if they use memcache. The site seems pretty smooth compared to youtube. Thanks ...
Native web services is a new feature of the XML DB technology. In google i found that it`s very close to SOA. Can anyone simply explain: 1) what is the main usage of Native web services 2) what is the main difference of XML DB 11g and previous XML DB releases. Thanks. ...
Duplicate How do you determine what technology a website is built on? Is there any way to find out what technology is used in a site? As in, whether its built with PHP, Ruby, .NET etc? I googled, and found this site - www.builtwith.com, but it doesn't always give results for all sites (client side yes, its easy, but what about ser...
I really appreciate the tutorials videos that http://www.ASP.NET (direct link: http://www.asp.net/learn/videos) have provided; watching videos are my preferred way of learning new technologies. I want to watch more advanced videos on the topic of ASP.NET, C#, Object Oriented Design, Architecture and SQL Server and I don't mind paying f...
I just spent some time at Bart de Smet's online blog and found it to be not only useful information for developers but at the same time interesting, fun, reading. The author obviously not only knows his subject matter, but has a talent for making his writing enjoyable to read: ...80 centimeters behind me lies the answer in dead tre...
I've seen some pretty strange use of technology. For example, one place I worked was using Microsoft Message Queuing to send real time streaming VoIP data between servers. I work as a consultant and many times the person responsible for these decisions is no longer at the company. The problem is that from the perspective of non-technic...
I would like to know if there are any templates for doing this in a clear and concise way to give the gist of the application and its inner workings and how it meets the business needs. I do not want to write a mythological story so looking for any new ways of doing this. ...