An ISV's perspective on CMIS

published 24 days, 23 hours ago, submitted by Rickasaurus 25 days, 20 hours ago

atalasoft.com — CMIS is an emerging standard for defining an interface for basic document repository interaction. It is proposed by Microsoft, EMC, and IBM, who with SharePoint, Documentum and FileNet make up a big part of the Enterprise Content Management market. read more...

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The Future of Programming Languages

published 1 month, 5 days ago, submitted by ericdcoolest 1 month, 5 days ago

atalasoft.com — In this article I'm going to focus on Dynamic Typing and Metaprogramming in particular. It's interesting to consider what the impact on the maintainability of our code from their increased prominence might be. read more...

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Debugging Code in the GAC - the best thing since sliced bread

published 3 months, 27 days ago, submitted by ericdcoolest 3 months, 27 days ago

atalasoft.com — "[...] I read a lot and one thing that caught my eye was that any assembly that is to be used as an add-in needs to be signed and installed in the GAC. This is troublesome as I always assumed that debugging code built this way was going to be, well, a pain in the GAC." Steve Hawley from Atalasoft gives a great little tutorial on this would-be problem. read more...

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FlingScan - Free Searchable PDF Service

published 5 months, 19 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 19 days ago

atalasoft.com — This web application generates a searchable PDF from any standard image such as a multipage TIFF or JPEG. The searchable PDF is emailed back to you where you can save it to your file system and search the content with one of many PDF search filters available for Microsoft's Desktop Search or Google's Desktop Search. read more...

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20 Years Later IRC is Still Useful; Are You Taking Advantage of it?

published 5 months, 19 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 19 days ago

atalasoft.com — Why You Should Care About A 20 Year Old Protocol? IRC is much more than just a relic of an earlier age. It helps connect highly technical people, it has weathered the years better than any other high level internet protocol. It does not suffer from the spam and abuse that have overtaken other protocols and no Web2.0 technology has supplanted it. read more...

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Working in Opposite Land - The Logic of a Debuggin Strategy

published 5 months, 18 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 19 days ago

atalasoft.com — "There are a number of interesting things that come up in computer science and computer engineering where reasoning suddenly jumps into opposite land. It seems that the more human the operation, the more likely we are to go to opposite land. For example, it has been measured that it is more efficient to send your engineers home at a reasonable hour when a project is late than it is to have them work long hours. Efficiency doesn't scale with time spent, but exhaustion sure does." read more...

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PDF Image Grabber Application

published 5 months, 24 days ago, submitted by tomdog 5 months, 24 days ago

atalasoft.com — The PDF Image Grabber allows you to take embedded images out of PDF Files. Simply open the PDF, choose the page, and then choose which image you want. Then click the Save button and pick a filename. The file saved will be the original image in the PDF at its original size. Application and Source Code provided. read more...

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ThinDoc: AJAX PDF Viewer

atalasoft.com — This is a cool AJAX-based PDF viewer that includes a Bookmarklet to make PDFs on the web open in it. read more...

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