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SkinCrafter Installer (zip)

SkinCrafter Installer is a developer tool for skinning of install packages created with Windows installer MSI files. SkinCrafter Installer uses SkinCrafter engine for skins implementation. SkinCrafter performs skinning Windows applications, allowing absolute visual customizations. In combination with SkinCrafter library you can get complete package: skinned installer + skinned end-user application....

Tags: SkinCrafter, SkinCrafter Installer, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Development Tools, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2007-10-24

SkinCrafter (zip)

SkinCrafter ActiveX Component allows developers to create unique looking style applications and fully interactive user interfaces. Support for Windows Forms (.NET), MS Visual C++, MS Visual Basic, Delphi, and all Win32 languages that support COM objects. SkinCrafter increases the value of applications by giving them a modern look and feel,...

Tags: SkinCrafter, SkinCrafter ActiveX Component, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, .Net, C/C++, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2006-11-03

SkinCrafter.NET (zip)

SkinCrafter.Net component is an optimal GUI skinning solution for any C#, Managed C++, VB.Net projects. It allows you to create customized interface for your .NET application implementing smooth and easy skinning for all standard Windows controls. You can seamlessly plug SkinCrafter skinning library into the architecture of your end-user application...

Tags: SkinCrafter, .Net, C#, Application Servers, Middleware, Programming Languages, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2006-11-03

Additional Resources

Another view: WOA vs. SOA debate a distraction?

Another view: WOA vs. SOA debate a distraction?WOA vs. ROA vs. SOARealistically, people have been using using RESTful services as part of SOA initiatives even if they didn't realize it for a few years already. You could even make the argument that Resource Oriented Architecture is going to subsume SOA,...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, WSOA, WOA, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-08-31

The Unix sysadmin salary premium

The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

The Microsoft middle ground

The Microsoft middle groundYes, but the current perceived credit crunchshould get rid of a lot of the "me-too" fat from the system.Only the genuine knowledgeable IT lovers will be left ....Price vs TCOYour piece fails to mention the well-documented costs of owning MS-based desktops and servers. The delta in...

Tags: Printers, Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, lock-in, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week

JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this weekis JavaFX an extension of M$ WinFX API?That FX sufix spells doom for me.Either $un have become a M$ appendice or they can't come with some original name for their aging product.RE: JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this weekWell, how could the...

Tags: SDK, JavaFX

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Enterprise Service Busted?

Enterprise Service Busted?ESBsIt really depends on your environment. My company is a medium sized company and we did not have any middleware. For us the ESB made a lot of sense. If you already have middleware, you may not need an ESB. You might be set...

Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Software's drive to become like television

Software's drive to become like televisionTypoFrom the comment:Free as in cost software, however, has the advantage of achieving large market share very quickly, as the consumption barrier is practically non-existent. That’s the recipe for the success of both Adobe and Flash, two products that clearly dominate their respective categories, but...

Tags: TV, advertisement, software

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market

  Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Microsoft's multicore strategy

Microsoft's multicore strategymulticoreinfoA link is provided to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , the hub for multicore related resources.Moderately talented?"...enables the moderately talented to produce functional software. Enabling Visual Basic programmers to exploit multicore chips is no mean feat."Say what? I use VB because its easier and faster to develop...

Tags: multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Red Hat JBoss announces Java EE middleware from the cloud

Open-source middleware over the cloud for building and delivering SOA applications by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Java, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., JBoss, Red Hat JBoss, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Java Development Tools, Middleware, Development Tools, Linux, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Template Blocks (zip)

Template Blocks is a visual template engine, replacing any semantics of previous generation engines with an AJAX interface. On a basic level of use, Template blocks does not require any files edited manually. Simply upload and run the setup on your browser. Everything is handled through online forms viewed on...

Tags: Engine, Template, K&D Interactive, AJAX, Web Browsers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

Software downloads 2008-06-18

Are all (Microsoft and Apple) sync services created equal?

Are all Microsoft and Apple sync services created equal?Obviously it's relative.If you lost your home and still commute 100 miles per day, it's downright cheap relative to the cost of gas.What idiotcommutes 100 miles a day when they've lost their house. MOVE CLOSER TO WORK. It's not like you have...

Tags: Obviously IT, Sync Framework, Live Mesh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., emperor

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Symphony Developer Edition (txt)

Platform Symphony is the fastest High Performance Computing HPC service-oriented middleware solution that enables developers to quickly achieve application performance objectives through a single, high-level programming paradigm for multi-core and multi-node environments. Now available as a free download with no node count restrictions and no time limits, Platform Symphony Developer...

Tags: Developer, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Programming, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Middleware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-06

Build your own Google

In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...

Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Conversation with Platform Computing's Songnian Zhou

Platform Computing has been a player in virtual processing and management software for virtualized resources since 1992. Platform LSF has been the company's flagship product since those early days. It has found a home in electronics, financial services, government, life sciences, manufacturing and oil/gas. I've been following them since I...

Tags: Environment, Platform Computing Inc., Grid Environment, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Sense and respond -- should humans be part of complex event processing?

This week, a report out of the Financial Times cited here in the LA Times said that a bug used in the computer models used by analysts at Moody's Investors Service caused Moody's to award "incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product."...

Tags: Human, Application, Event, SOA, EDA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-23

How important is Mirth?

Fred Trotter recently decided to turn his regular talks on open source health computing into a series of blog posts. They are well worth looking at. His review calls Mirth the most important interoperability project out there.  This despite what he acknowledges are weaknesses in the underlying...

Tags: Interoperability, Mirth, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Limo adds Mozilla, Verizon to its bandwagon

The LiMo Foundation, a consortium that is building an open software platform for handsets based on Linux, has added Mozilla and Verizon to its roster The full roster of partners added today includes: Infineon Technologies; Kvaleberg AS; Mozilla Corporation; Red...

Tags: LiMo Foundation, Verizon Communications Inc., Mozilla Corp., Limo, UI, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14