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Using the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296)

If one has developed many applications using a Swing-based graphical user interface GUI, one has probably solved some common problems over and over again. Those problems include managing the application life cycle, event handling, threading, localizable resources, and maybe even persistence. To save time and effort, one can develop reusable...

Tags: Application Framework

White papers 2007-07-01

Application virtualization and green computing

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd like to look at application virtualization and the role it plays in green computing.Application virtualization, by the...

Tags: application virtualization, Green Computing, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-23

An Application Framework for Efficient, Reliable and Secure Access to Memory Spot

Memory Spot is a microchip developed by HP Labs at Bristol. Compared to Radio Frequency IDentification RFID devices, Smart Cards and other Near-Field Communication NFC devices, this chip provides much larger storage capacity, faster data transfer rate, and smaller physical dimensions. The chip is normally passive and is energized by...

Tags: Application Framework, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Access, Radio Frequency, Radio, Memory, Chip, Memory Spot, Radio Frequency Channel, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Marketing, Networking

White papers 2007-04-18

The ACCESS Linux Platform and the Hiker Application Framework: Accelerating Mobile Linux Market Growth and Fostering the Mobile Linux Ecosystem

The ACCESS Linux Platform is the first complete, commercial grade Linux-based platform for mobile phones and converged devices. Based on a standard Linux kernel and other open source components, the ACCESS Linux Platform includes all the middleware services required to build state-of-the-art mobile phones and converged devices. As its name...

Tags: Application Framework, Microsoft Access, Mobile, Mobile Linux, ACCESS Linux Platform, Linux, Microsoft Office, UNIX, Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-04-12

Peer2Me - Rapid Application Framework for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Applications

This paper presents the Peer2Me framework that enables developers to create mobile peer-to-peer applications. The framework provides an API that is easy to adopt, yet capable of creating advanced peer-to-peer applications. The framework was built to provide applications providing pure peer-to-peer network where all nodes have the same responsibility and...

Tags: Application Framework, Mobile, P2P, Framework, Peer2Me, Peer To Peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing

White papers 2007-03-09

Better coding with the Model-Glue:Unity ColdFusion application framework

Model-Glue is a Model-View-Controller MVC framework for ColdFusion that was released in 2005. Model-Glue is what is known among software engineers and application developers as an event-based, implicit invocation framework. You use XML to declare event handlers, and these event handlers are called via a URL or form variable. In...

Tags: Application Framework, Allaire ColdFusion, Business Logic, Model-Glue, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Download resources 2006-09-28

An Application Framework for Collaborative Learning

This paper presents the design of a new application framework for collaborative learning. The framework guides teachers in implementing online activities based on well-known pedagogical techniques, to accomplish their educational objectives within a certain educational setting, and simplifies the development of collaboration tools needed to carry out those techniques. There...

Tags: Technique, Application Framework, Framework, Productivity

White papers 2005-02-11

MSDN Webcast: Russ and Joe Developer Show With Stan Schultes: Understanding the Smart Client Software Factory (Level 100)

This webcast explores the Smart Client Software Factory, a technology toolkit from the Microsoft patterns & practices group that focuses on building complex, composite smart client applications. The Smart Client Software Factory takes advantage of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 2.0 and Composite UI Application Block, using a software factory model...

Tags: Software, Developer, Microsoft Developer Network, Application Framework, Webcast, Client Software, Microsoft Corp., Smart Client Software Factory, Tools & Techniques, Management

Webcasts

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iPhone gas application roundup

On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default

Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup

Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1

The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

A Friday Active Directory puzzler

We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...

Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Diagnose your hard disks, free

Hard drive acting kinda funny? Free application HDDScan is a utility that diagnoses your hard drive's ills. The app allows you to analyze drive temperatures, conduct S.M.A.R.T. tests, export and print reports to document changes in your hard drive's health, and works on ATA,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

Ready for real Indian medicine?

Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...

Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24