Daily Blog Post 04/30/2009

• Free Custom iPhone Ringtones Using Only iTunes

  Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer (This method only works with songs that are DRM free. To create ringtones using DRM protected songs please use this method). This method has been tested and works with iTunes 7.7.1 and iPhone 2.0.1 firmware

  tags: iphone, ringtone, howto, itunes

• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Creating a Prototype

  To implement this application, I chose Visual WebGui, an open-source AJAX framework built on top of ASP.NET. Visual WebGui offers a programming model that replicates the WinForms desktop development, but for the web. Experienced .NET desktop developers can begin developing powerful web-based AJAX applications very quickly by leveraging their desktop development knowledge.

  tags: article, programming, asp.net, ajax, webgui, cms

• CodeProject: Build Google IG like Ajax Start Page in 7 days using ASP.NET Ajax and .NET 3.0. Free source code and programming help

  will show you how I built a start page similar to Google IG in 7 nights using ASP.NET Ajax, .NET 3.0, Linq, DLinq and XLinq. I have logged my day to day development experience in this article and documented all the technical challenges, interesting discoveries and important design & architectural decisions. You will find the implementation quite close to actual Google IG. It has drag & drop enabled widgets, complete personalization of the pages, multi page feature and so on. It’s not just a prototype or a sample project. It’s a real living and breathing open source start page running at http://dropthings.omaralzabir.com/ which you can use everyday. You are welcome to participate in the development and make widgets for the project.

  tags: codeproject, article, asp.net, ajax, .net, programming, howto, dashboard, startpage, widget

• The Pomodoro Technique

  The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that can be used for any kind of task. For many people, time is an enemy. The anxiety triggered by “the ticking clock”, especially when a deadline is involved, leads to ineffective work and study habits which in turn lead to procrastination.

  The aim of the Pomodoro Technique is to use time as a valuable ally in accomplishing what we want to do in the way we want to do it, and to enable us to continually improve the way we work or study.

  tags: productivity, selfimprovement, selfmanagement, ebook, concentration

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Daily Blog Post 04/29/2009

• NuevaSync – Over the Air Synchronization

  NuevaSync allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of certain smart phones and PDA devices with public PIM, and calendaring services including Google Calendar and GMail contacts. NuevaSync does not need any software installed on your device because it uses synchronization protocols that are already built in.

  tags: iphone, sync, google, calendar, onlineservice

• BitNami: Open Source. Simplified

  BitNami makes installing wikis, blogs, CRM systems a simple and enjoyable process. Get your favorite open source apps in ready to run packages.

  tags: opensource, software, installation, wiki, blog, crm

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links for 2009-04-24

• Reporting Tool for Silverlight, Windows Forms and Web Forms
  Reporting component for Silverlight.
  Silverlight report viewer combines all benefits of desktop and Internet applications:

  Advantages of desktop apps

  # Fast report uploading: every single page is loaded separately; you can view only those report pages you really need without loading the whole report;
  # Report preview: single page, continuous;
  # Export to PDF, HTML, Excel, and RTF;
  # Zoom of any type: percent, regional, dynamic;
  # Fast search;
  # Easy navigation;
  # Report panning;

  (tags: 2_Commercial 3_BusinessSoftware 1_Component 4_Visualization 4_DeveloperTools 5_Silverlight 4_Component 7_Reporting)
• Silverlight Contrib – Home
  Silverlight Contrib is a collection of Silverlight Controls and API enhancements, and productivity tools built for and by the Silverlight developer community.
  (tags: 2_OpenSource 1_Component 6_Codeplex 3_Both 4_DeveloperTools 5_Silverlight 4_Component)
• officeatwork – corporate office automation
  Mit officeatwork – der Businesslösung für Microsoft Office – bekommen Sie das Corporate Design-, Vorlagen- und Content-Management professionell in den Griff
  (tags: 1_Server 2_Commercial 3_BusinessSoftware 4_ECM 7_DocumentManagement 7_Vorlagen)

Daily Blog Post 04/24/2009

• WP Premium Theme

  free wp-premium theme with 3 color schemes

  Featured in Smashing Magazine, this famous free theme has been praised a lot by actual wordpress users for it’s elegance, usability, strategic layout and SEO friendy code.

  Now, this free theme is 2.7 ready with new useful features and code update. With paid version, you get theme support and some exclusive features such as Theme control panel, more colorschemes and so on..

  tags: wordpress, template, free

• Top 50 Professional looking free WordPress themes | Design live

  There’re 50 professional looking free WordPress themes in this post. After scrolling through hundreds of themes across the Web, these themes have been manually selected since they are apart in terms of professional look and easy customization. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Tell me about your favorite WordPress themes in the comments.

  tags: blogarticle, wordpress, template, free

• Web Slice Control adapter for MOSS 2007 – Doron Goldberg

  This post is about enabling web slices on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

  The following example will demonstrate how to easily implement a simple control adapter which will render the required html code for turning any web part on your server into a live web slice.

  tags: moss, sharepoint, ie8, webpart, development

• Sanjay Narang’s thoughts on SharePoint : SharePoint (Performance, Stress ) Load Testing

  SharePoint (Performance, Stress ) Load Testing

  Whenever I’ve helped my customers in performance testing and analysis of SharePoint, I get one common question: Can you tell us more about „SharePoint Load Testing“ and links where I can learn more? Doing a quick web search on „SharePoint Load Testing“ or „SharePoint Performance Testing“ – you get all kinds of results such as data population tools, performance tuning techniques, handling large lists etc. However, it’s not very easy to get results about, How to go about load testing SharePoint, what are the counters that i should measure, where can i find real life bench mark results of SharePoint? That’s exactly, what I am trying to in this post. I’m trying to cover all the resources that I know about load testing. I wouldn’t be covering much about Performance Tuning and Analysis.

  tags: sharepoint, moss, performance, test, blogarticle, analysis

• beam eBooks – Der eBook Shop

  tags: ebook, german, shop

• THE BI Blog : Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI

  Here’s a collection of some cool Microsoft BI Demos that I use regularly to showcase aspects of the Microsoft BI stack and show interesting examples of what insight to information can actually accomplish.

  tags: blogarticle, businessintelligence, microsoft, sqlserver, olap, dashboard, demo

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Daily Blog Post 04/22/2009

• Campus-Digibook – Nachrichten

  tags: ebook, german, shop

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Daily Blog Post 04/20/2009

• Theme-generator || WordPress

  Theme-generator.net is an online layout generator that allows you to design and dynamically generate a personalized wordpress theme for your blog.
  At the moment, this is still in beta. There is some more functionalities I have to add to make it more powerful and allow you to customize more elements. The theme is widget ready and compatible with the latest WordPress version.

  Play around with the tools on the sidebar on the lefthand side of the screen and create a personalized theme for your blog! These tools allow you to change the structure of the layout, header, background color, customize the font, etc. When you are happy with the new format, first click on save & then generate. This will export your theme to a zip file. Simply upload it on your host and activate it within the wordpress admin panel.

  tags: wordpress, template, theme, generator, onlineservice

• Web2.0 – templatr – Template Generator

  tags: wordpress, template, generator, theme, onlineservice

• WordPress Theme Generator

  This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

  Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click „save“ and download your unique WordPress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done! If you have any questions or need additions visit the forum.

  Based on WordPress 2.1 to 2.7 with Yahoo! UI (grids, tabs & fonts) to support all A-Grade browsers and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Theme supports Widgets & Tags. Themes examples: read more…

  tags: wordpress, generator, theme, onlineservice, template

• buecher.de: eBooks – Schnell, Günstig, Portofrei!

  tags: ebook, shop, german

• buecher.de: eBooks – Schnell, Günstig, Portofrei!

  tags: ebook, shop, german

• Startseite

  tags: ebook, shop, german

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links for 2009-04-16

• Silverlight Loader – Home
  A simple and light Silverlight framework for creating managed code splash screens, preloaders and loader projects.
  The framework is written in managed code (C#).

  Background

  One of the strongest features of silverlight is the ability to write complex applications, that will run on most browsers and be portable across different operating systems, in managed code.

  The current built in Silverlight mechanism to write a Splash screen/ pre loader in Silverlight requires you to dirty your hands in non managed code (JavaScript) and be subjected to some other limitations. Writing non managed code can be both time consuming and harder to maintain.

  This is where the Silverlight loader project comes in. Silverlight loader is a simple, light, managed code framework that can easily be added to any Silverlight project in order to create managed code splash screens, pre loaders, loaders etc.

  (tags: 2_OpenSource 1_Component 6_Codeplex 3_Both 5_Silverlight 4_Component Splashscreen)
• NextDocs – Document Management Software for Life Sciences Companies
  NextDocs is the leading provider of regulatory document and quality management software solution based on SharePoint 2007. Our products are purpose-built for businesses in highly regulated environments. By improving on Microsoft's dynamic SharePoint platform, NextDocs document management solutions are cost-effective, intuitive, flexible and scalable.
  (tags: 2_Commercial 3_BusinessSoftware 1_Component 4_SharePoint 4_ECM 7_DocumentManagement)

Daily Blog Post 04/15/2009

• entwickler.press

  tags: ebook, shop, german

• Business-Illustrationen

  WILLKOMMEN BEI BUSINESS-ILLUSTRATIONEN.DE!

  Hier erarbeiten Profis aus den Bereichen Management, Beratung und Personal- entwicklung, Illustration & Medien durchdachte und professionelle Visualisierungen für:

  * Fachzeitschriften und –bücher
  * Trainings- und Schulungsunterlagen
  * Businesspräsentationen
  * wirtschaftsnahe Werbemedien

  Gerade bei komplexen Wirtschaftsthemen stoßen Fotos als Bildbotschaft zur emotionalen Verankerung Ihrer Inhalte schnell an Ihre Grenzen. Eine treffende Illustration zu Thema ist hier wesentlich zielführender!

  Schauen Sie sich doch einfach unser umfangreiches Bildmaterial unter der Rubrik „Illustrationen“ in Ruhe an und melden sich kostenfrei an! Nach Ihrer Freischaltung können Sie dann sämtliche Bilder schnell & kostengünstig sofort downloaden und bequem per Rechnung bezahlen.

  Sollten Sie zu Ihrem Thema kein Motiv finden oder wünschen Sie eine individuelle oder exklusive Illustrationen für Ihr Projekt, so teilen Sie uns dies kurz per Mail mit. Wir setzen uns dann umgehend mit Ihnen in Verbindung und erstellen Ihnen ein Angebot!

  tags: illustration, presentation, office, shop

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Office 2007 System Service Pack 2

Am 28. April erscheint das Service Pack 2 für das Office System. Dies beinhaltet Updates für die Client Suite wie aber auch für die Server Produkte.

Hier die Übersicht:

http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2009/04/14/service-pack-2-for-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-april-28th.aspx

Im SharePoint Bereich gibt es diverse Änderungen. Etwas das mir so auf den ersten Blick etwas Bauchweh macht ist diese Aussage

· SP2 offers support for standards-based documents formats and compatibility with a broader range of Web browsers.

Könnte es da eventuell Probleme geben mit Seiten bei welchen man Customizing gemacht hat?

Office 2010 Roadmap & Exchange 2010 Beta Launch

Heute Nacht wurde die offizielle Roadmap für Office 2010 vorgestellt. Eine halböffentliche Beta der Client Suite sowie SharePoint Server ist im Q3 zu erwarten.

Exchange 2010 Beta wird sogar schon heute veröffentlicht.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2512