A simple workflow designer that allows you to drag names from a list of employees, to another list that is your process workflow. Using the Scriptaculous sortable list effect, this tool allows your average user to redesign workflows on the fly in a very intuitive way.
After being shown the Scriptaculous effects library, my usual […]
As of today, Microsoft now has available express editions of Visual Studio .NET. You can download for free any of these lightweight versions of the .NET development tools:
For Web Development:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
For Windows Development:
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Database Development:
SQL […]
Hat tip to Jerry Carter and Mark Barton for this excellent find; CodeIgniter MVC application framework for PHP. If you do any PHP development, or would like to see an excellent Model-View-Controller (MVC) tutorial, you owe it to yourself to give this tool a look-see.
First and foremost, CodeIgniter is a pretty kick-ass framework tool […]
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 […]
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 […]