So how does Open Office.org “Writer” compare against MS Office “Word”? I’ll start this with just some menu comparisons so you can see that the majority of options used in Word are also in Writer. There are definitely some differences in how certain tasks are executed, but I’ll show later how that is […]
Most folks have at least heard of Open Office.org, which is an open source office suite designed to compete directly with Microsoft Office. Previous versions have been intriguing, but OO.o version 2 has now delivered some real competition which I think can compete with the likes of MS Office, and OpenOffice has a USB […]
Those of you who are familiar with NTLM authentication, and who are lovers of FireFox, might be interested to know that you can get NTLM authentication to work in Firefox, with a single setting.
NTLM Authentication allows the login credentials of a Windows user, who is logged into a Windows domain, to be automatically passed to […]
I never thought getting TinyMCE to work with an AJAX post would be difficult, but a day of poking and prodding (with eventual success), brought me back to reality and reminded me how useful a browser Developer Toolbar can be.
The more I work with AJAX technologies, the more I like working away from the typical […]
My blog RSS feeds have been abuzz lately about Prototype.js and the Scriptaculous libraries, built on top of Prototype, so I just HAD to find a project to use this stuff, and I did. So in the spirit of those who have put some much time into these libraries, I thought I would share […]
Finally, Blackberry/RIM and NTP have settled their legal dispute with Blackberry paying NTP $612 million, which led to RIM’s stock going up 19%?! Well, how RIM won is in the details. CNN - FNC
First, RIM already lost the patent dispute with NTP back in 2002. The subsequent settlement from that decision was […]
Having recently debugged a Domino application that stored RDBMS credentials in the Notes.ini file on the server, I was reminded of a very powerful feature that was built in to the .NET 2.0 platform. That is the ability to encrypt portions of an applications “web.config” file.
We all know that the physical security of […]