Jun 12, 2008
It’s perfectly possible to generate a PDF from scratch, using a library such as iTextSharp, a port of a free Java PDF library. However, it can be hard work defining all the code you need to generate the layout you’re after, and impossible for someone to tweak the layout without going back to the developer.
It's perfectly possible to generate a PDF from scratch, using a library such as iTextSharp, a port of a free Java PDF library. However, it can be hard work defining all the code you need to generate the layout you're after, and impossible for someone to tweak the layout without going back to the developer. Read More
Jun 12, 2008
Today at Graphing Social Patterns, executives from hi5, AOL, MySpace and imeem provided updates on their OpenSocial platform usage. Patrick Chanezon from Google opened by explaining that Chinese service OpenPNE out of China and StudiVZ out of Germany are the two newest OpenSocial providers. He also shared some updated stats:
– 19 days in production
– 275 million users
– 66 million installs
– 2,000 applications built on OpenSocial
– 20,000 developers
– 10 million daily app users
AOL
The AOL OpenSocial discussion was brief as the panel was almost out of time but the discussion focused on the third-party and advertising aspects.
imeem
imeem focused on music and showed off some basic OpenSocial goodies you could build on imeem. Apparently you can access the entire music library on imeem using OpenSocial.
MySpace
MySpace came out of the gate boasting how large they are and noted they are twice as large as the nearest competitor (without naming Facebook). The pitch was simple, "want to reach the largest OpenSocial community? Build on MySpace." Staggering stat: 12% of all Internet minutes are spent on MySpace! The MySpace guy wouldn’t answer my question about the costs associated with being a "featured app" - said something about being a developer and not a business guy. I don’t buy it for a minute mister!
hi5
For some reason, the hi5 guy decided to open by putting on a gray shirt - he said that all business people wear blue shirts and khaki pants (luckily he didn’t take his pants off!) - the stunt didn’t seem to get much of a reaction from the audience. It felt like hi5 was the little engine that could from his presentation. They do have very strong adoption of the OpenSocial apps by their community.
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Today at Graphing Social Patterns, executives from hi5, AOL, MySpace and imeem provided updates on their OpenSocial platform usage. Patrick Chanezon from Google opened by explaining that Chinese service OpenPNE out of China and StudiVZ out of Germany are the two newest OpenSocial providers. He also shared some updated stats:
-- 19 days in production
-- 275 million users
-- 66 million installs
-- 2,000 applications built on OpenSocial
-- 20,000 developers
-- 10 million daily app users
AOL
The AOL OpenSocial discussion was brief as the panel was almost ... Read More
Jun 12, 2008
The daily list still remains high: Peter McGrattan(3), Lee(3), Dave Relyea with a Dialog Class, Michael Sync raffling off eBooks, Karen Corby’s TechEd material, Pete Brown with a streaming upload work-around, 6 Webcasts by Lindsay Rutter, and Koen Zwikstra on his P2P Library.
From
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- Silverlight 2.0 Unhandled Exceptions
- I had been tracking an old link for Peter McGrattan and had completely missed some good stuff on his site, so we’re going to play catch-up: First is this short “what to do with an unhandled exception” post, next is Silverlight 2.0 Stock List Demo - Part 3 , good stuff… and links to the others, followed by My Samples Updated to Beta 2 in which he gives out updates to, for instance, the Stock List Demo Part 3
… all with source, so enjoy
- Showing and Hiding Datagrid Columns
- Another busy guy is Lee, who is a man of few words He’s got some good material, at least code… First this one on Showing and Hiding DataGrid Columns, Next is ComboBox code updated to Beta2 , and finally Animating ListBoxItems using VSM in which he updates his prior article using VSM… all these are code included.
- Using Popup to create a Dialog class
- Dave Relyea uses a Popup control to make a Dialog Class… how cool is that? … the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that separates us all… I like it
- Contest: Write an article about Silverlight 2 (beta2) and Win “Silverlight 2 in Action” ebook
- Michael Sync has a contest going on his blog to get a free eBook written by my buddies Chad Campbell and Michael Schwarz… read Michael’s (Sync) post to find out how to enter… this is a good book… really a lot of work has gone into this… so would be well-worth buying much less winning!
- TechEd Samples
- There are presenters (Michael Palermo and Simon Allardice) that I would attend any session they put on, even reading the phone book. Karen Corby falls into a similar category… her presentation material at Mix ‘08 cleaned my clock… I may as well have left at that point… and I’m sure her TechEd material is the same… sight unseen… right now it’s the PPT and code, but watch the link, she’ll be posting videos later.
- Problems Uploading Videos to Windows Live Silverlight Streaming when Beta 2 Installed?
- Pete Brown talks about a problem uploading videos to Live Streaming and provides a work-around… hard to beat that!
- Upcoming Silverlight 2 Webcast Series
- I got this by way of Andrew Duthie, and have already signed up for all 6 of these webcasts by Lindsay Rutter— go out and do so yourself… how can you pass up 6 hours of free SL training??
- Silverlight P2PLib for SL2B2 now available too
- Koen Zwikstra has updated the P2P library he’s been working on to be Beta 2 .. well worth the time to investigate using!
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The daily list still remains high: Peter McGrattan(3), Lee(3), Dave Relyea with a Dialog Class, Michael Sync raffling off eBooks, Karen Corby's TechEd material, Pete Brown with a streaming upload work-around, 6 Webcasts by Lindsay Rutter, and Koen Zwikstra on his P2P Library.
From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2.0 Unhandled Exceptions I had been tracking an old link for Peter McGrattan and had completely missed some good stuff on his site, so we're going to play catch-up: First is this short "what to do ... Read More
Jun 11, 2008
Sharpen is a Java to C# source code conversion tool is now available to the public as free software. db4objects has used the tool extensively to generate most of the .NET db4o engine core code and unit test suites from Java sources.
Sharpen is a Java to C# source code conversion tool is now available to the public as free software. db4objects has used the tool extensively to generate most of the .NET db4o engine core code and unit test suites from Java sources. Read More
Jun 11, 2008
Document sharing service Docstoc is out with a potentially major upgrade today. The new functionality is called OneClick and allows you to share documents via email no matter how large the files are. I’ve embedded a video that describes the service below. OneClick is a simple desktop widget that you select when you have large documents to share. After the documents are uploaded to Docstoc, the OneClick application opens your default email application and puts the links directly into the email. It’s really simple to use.
Adam Ostrow notes that this new utility will help drive user adoption of Docstoc and I completely agree - this is why I noted that it’s a major upgrade above. Not only will this drive user adoption, it will also help Docstoc to increase their keyword rich content index. While it appears that documents uploaded with OneClick show as private by default, Docstoc would be smart to push users to change the privacy settings on their next login.
The only filetypes that are supported with Docstoc’s OneClick are .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt. This may limit the tool’s functionality as other large file email replacement tools like YouSendIt allow you to send any file type. Will the casual user know when to use DocStoc and when not to? Mark Hendrickson has the same concerns regarding file type. Frankly they should allow any file type to be uploaded and just show the files as a list rather than showing them in the Docstoc player. That’d be hot.
The document sharing battle between Scribd and Docstoc is great to watch as it’s forcing both to continue to innovate and that’s a good thing for all of us. Check out our interview with Docstoc CEO Jason Nazar.
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Document sharing service Docstoc is out with a potentially major upgrade today. The new functionality is called OneClick and allows you to share documents via email no matter how large the files are. I've embedded a video that describes the service below. OneClick is a simple desktop widget that you select when you have large documents to share. After the documents are uploaded to Docstoc, the OneClick application opens your default email application and puts the links directly into the email. It's really simple to ... Read More
Jun 11, 2008
FusionCharts just released version 2 of their charting package under a free license. The Blog/code/sample application demonstrate how to take the free charting widget and turn it into a dojo widget that can be used in your application. The charting component is drop in ready for your dojo application.
FusionCharts just released version 2 of their charting package under a free license. The Blog/code/sample application demonstrate how to take the free charting widget and turn it into a dojo widget that can be used in your application. The charting component is drop in ready for your dojo application. Read More
Jun 11, 2008
Now that was fast! T-Mobile which had sued Starbucks last week over the coffee chain partnering with AT&T and offering free WiFi has settled with the Seattle-based coffee giant. The terms of the settled were not revealed, though I think the iPhone 3G launch might have made AT&T push some buttons and get this whole […]
Now that was fast! T-Mobile which had sued Starbucks last week over the coffee chain partnering with AT&T and offering free WiFi has settled with the Seattle-based coffee giant. The terms of the settled were not revealed, though I think the iPhone 3G launch might have made AT&T push some buttons and get this whole thing resolved. We are hardly surprised by this out of court settlement: 53% (62 out of 111 votes) of the respondents to our poll basically picked “out ... Read More
Jun 11, 2008
On the eve of Structure 08 in San Francisco, the folks behind many of today’s cloud computing initiatives will be gathering at CloudCamp. GigaOM is one of the evening’s sponsors:
CloudCamp was formed in order to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. Through a series of local CloudCamp events, attendees […]
On the eve of Structure 08 in San Francisco, the folks behind many of today’s cloud computing initiatives will be gathering at CloudCamp. GigaOM is one of the evening’s sponsors:
CloudCamp was formed in order to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. Through a series of local CloudCamp events, attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies.
If you’re in the city, come ... Read More
Jun 11, 2008
I was typing up a blog post earlier today and after 15 or so complete 5-10 second freezes, my browser finally crashed. That was using IE 7. IE 8 is a whole different story (and so, not a very good one). So I started to think about how frequently my mobile browsing experience sucks. Every single day, several times, I’ll run into a huge browser hang or some other performance nightmare that just makes my blood boil. If it was just once a day, it’d be one thing.
I was typing up a blog post earlier today and after 15 or so complete 5-10 second freezes, my browser finally crashed. That was using IE 7. IE 8 is a whole different story (and so, not a very good one). So I started to think about how frequently my mobile browsing experience sucks. Every single day, several times, I'll run into a huge browser hang or some other performance nightmare that just makes my blood boil. ... Read More
Jun 11, 2008
List of search engines for searching source code of various applications and Books. Can be quite handy in finding out how to use different components and also in understanding algorithm for Standard operations .
List of search engines for searching source code of various applications and Books. Can be quite handy in finding out how to use different components and also in understanding algorithm for Standard operations . Read More
