Real World Software Development has a comprehensive list of web 2.0 web sites including bookmarking sites, social communities, email, image and video sharing, and the list is getting longer.
One application that has been omitted from all the lists I’ve seen so far is Outlook Web Access from Microsoft. Sure, it needs a Microsoft Exchange server […]
If you’d like to give Ruby a go, heres a quick tutorial on how to get it up and running on your PC.
First off, you have a choice of two development environments:
Instant Rails, the command line environment, or
RadRails, the Eclipse based IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
1. Instant Rails
Instant Rails is a complete Ruby on Rails […]
Some very cool WordPress plugins to spice up your blog.
Stock Quote Sidebar puts a list of stock quotes in your sidebar.
PhotoPress is a set of tools to make working with images easier. It adds an uploader, a random image function for your sidebar, and a simple photo album.
StatTraq adds some great hit statistics to your […]
Moblogging is posting articles to the internet from a mobile device such as you mobile phone, PDA, or laptop.
By default, Wordpress comes with the functionality to let you post items from your email account or mobile phone. However there are some limitations, for example the default wp-mail.php file doesnt support attached images or files, at […]
I’ve been keeping notes while setting up Wordpress on my PC at home. What I really want is to be able to moblog - post articles from my phone. Its been difficult, but it looks like its just about starting to work. The hard part is getting the Postie mail plugin to work with Wordpress […]
Some interesting new development tools and platforms are available these days.
Microsoft is providing beta versions of its Visual Studio 2005
Mono is an open source IDE for developing .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. from http://www.mono-project.com/
Grasshopper is a Visual Studio .NET plug-in which enables you to use C# […]
When email limits the size of files you want to send to someone, try one of these file transfer websites.
http://www.filesend.to 5 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3 days retention
http://okurin.bitpark.co.jp/ 250MB, 10 downloads, 5 days retention
www.filebank.co.jp 10 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3days retention
www.fileocool.com 100MB per file, 5 downloads, 7 days retention
www.datadeliver.net 10 files at a time, 100MB, […]
Database Journal shows how to open a web page from inside MSAccess.
Public Function UpdateOrderInfoWebSite() As Long
On Error Resume NextDim objDoc As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
Dim sURL As String
Dim lOrderID As LonglOrderID = Forms!frmOrder!txtOrderIDConst cURL As String =”http://localhost/Orders/Process.asp”
sURL = cURL & “?ID=” & lOrderID
sURL = sURL & “&SDate =” & Forms!frmOrder!txtStatusDate
sURL = sURL & “&SID =” & Forms!frmOrder!cboStatusID
sURL = […]
WinLIKE is the first professional Window-Manager for Web browsers. With WinLIKE, Web applications, Web sites, and portals can contain little windows - like you are used to from your desktop. WinLIKE is based of DHTML and is only 25 KB big. It works without any plug-ins in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape Navigator […]
Test your network connection speed at http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest?more=1
I got a disappointing 664kbps from my 8Mbps ADSL line.