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 […]
Hat tip to Jim Anderton, there is a free download of a beta VMWare server available here. Excellent tool for the belt of those who tend to download alot of software for “testing”, but never seem to uninstall it when done.
Freeware PDF writer that installs as a print driver and converts any document from any application (that can print) into a PDF. I used it alot recently and it ranks as one of my core utlities.
Very useful little gem! I had posted on working around the limitations of MS’s NTLM authentication “double-hop” issue by using AJAX methods to retrieve information from secured web services in conjunction with IE’s security zones. Although SOAP is XML and nothing stops a person from manually creating a SOAP wrapper, this tool actually […]
Finally GOT IT!! As is the case with most catastrophes there was more than one cause. In a nutshell, I had some conflicting namespaces (which I now know are ultra sensitive to things like conflicts), and I finally learned how to return arrays of complex data types.
First, Thank goodness I had access to […]
The uber-geekiness came through this weekend as I finally finished the two little geek projects that I have been trying to find time to do. First, the weather for Buffalo is now delivered to this page by my weather plugin, and second is the introduction of the Buffalo snow-meter. You may think it is a […]
Not sure why I never mentioned an excellent web development tool I have been using in Firefox for a good few months, called the Web Developer Toolbar (catchy?). Chris Pederick has done an excellent job with this tool and has been paid the ultimate compliment by Microsoft. They copied it and called it […]
As I mentioned earlier, I have a customer who wanted a spell check option for their browser (IE-only) application. It took a while but I finally found exactly what I needed.
First I thought about using VBScript to open a Word document and spawning the spell check, but that can get messy and it requires […]
Now I have seen some of my fellow bloggers talk about using the Google API’s to integrate maps and Google searches into there sites, but did you know that you can use the Google API’s for spell-checking your online apps?
A customer of mine uses a browser interface to maintain a public service site […]