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Dali 2.2 (Windows)

Dali Professional Edition allows ordinary .NET business objects to interact with database tables without writing SQL or ADO.NET code. Dali can reduce database-related code by up to 80%. Unlike traditional data access layers, Dali does not rely on code generators that clutter your code base with vendor-specific files. Nor does...

Tags: Code Generator, Microsoft Windows, Data Access, Revelation Technologies, Dali Professional Edition, .Net, Storage, Application Servers, Databases, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-12-12

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Getting Things Done - the art of efficiency, productivity & organizational clarity

I had the pleasure of attending the GTD summit last week: the inaugural conference arranged by The David Allen Company around the GTD methodology outlined in Allen's book 'Getting Things Done: The art of stress free productivity‘. GTD has gone on to sell...

Tags: Conference, GTD, David Allen, E-mail, E-learning, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-16

A minority opinion ....

A minority opinion ....Who said Windows can't ....... run on a 64 way multi-core system without a hitch. I didn't. I merely pointed out the flaws in the author's methods. I was the one arguing that each OS has it's place. You ran off on a...

Tags: Operating systems, .NET, OPEN SOURCE, Named Pipes, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux, flaw, Unix

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters

Chip bugs can lead to major security disastersChip bugsShamir suggests that it's impractical to test all cases of 64*64-bit multiplication. But given the lifespan of a chip design, and given that the test only needs to be run once, wouldn't it be practical to design a "grid" or "distributed" test,...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Desktops, CERN, Shamir, Chip bug, chip, security disaster, security

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

What you see is what you publish

Adobe's acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity and its Buzzword online word processor brings Adobe into direct competition with Microsoft and Google in the Office 2.0 space (or as Scoble sensibly retitles it, Work 2.0). But much more more significant in my view is what Buzzword tells us about the nature of...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Application, Document, Google Docs, Microsoft Corp., Buzzword, Flash, Adobe Share, What-you-see-is-what-you-publish, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Old meets new: Lotus Domino and Atlassian

A couple of weeks ago, I caught the end of a presentation by Alek Lotoczko who runs the intranet for NYK Logistics & Megacarrier. Earlier this week, I called Alek to get more detail. As background, NYK is one of the world's biggest shipping companies but when Alek reviewed use...

Tags: Open Source, IBM Lotus Domino, Wiki, IBM Corp., Intranet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Update: ZFS will be in Leopard--sort of

Update: ZFS will be in Leopard--sort ofwhat if apple talked but nobody listened?Just because they had one hit, does not mean they'll automatically have another. As for Sun,just how do they make money from ZFS? Is apple just taking advantage of their open source nature?Apple doesn't announce vaporwareSo...

Tags: Business ethics, ZFS

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

A Citrix catharsis

For many of us in the on-demand sector, the name Citrix has long been a synonym for how not to do it. The Windows terminal technology that Citrix pioneered in the mid-1990s provided a relatively simple way of taking an existing Windows-based application and offering it as a hosted service....

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., on-demand

Blog posts 2006-08-21

Forrester Research Report: Thirty-One Best Practices for the Service Desk

According to a study conducted by Forrester Research, only 53 percent of surveyed IT users reported being satisfied with their help desk support. This startling revelation might lead some to point at courtesy of staff as the issue. Not so. Instead, areas such as resolving users' requests in a timely...

Tags: Service Desk, Citrix Systems Inc., Best Practice, Forrester Research Inc., It Services

White papers 2005-06-28

Gnomedexers gather around RSS

I am in Seattle at Gnomedex 5.0, a gathering of the blogospherati, exploring everything from RSS and citizen journalism to podcasting and the future of media. One of the first day highlights was Microsoft public revelation of its Longhorn and IE 7.0 RSS strategy, which Matt Mullenweg (founding Word Press...

Tags: OPML, OPML Editor, RSS

Blog posts 2005-06-24

Medical supply firm to sell patient RFID chips

Medical supply firm to sell patient RFID chipsNot in my arm you ain'tI ain't no religous fanatic or conspiracy nut. I don't like needles and that is what it takes to put one of those things in me. Seriously, if they implant this thing in someone, how are...

Tags: RFID, chip, passport, Medical Supply company, medical supply, RFID chip, patient

Discussion threads 2004-11-10

Disruptions in the software fabric

According to a recent Gartner report, companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft need to have more modular, bite-sized chunks of functionality, which would allow customers to update systems with more flexibility and speed. Not exactly a new revelation. All the major software vendors are working hard to simplify their...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., software

Blog posts 2004-11-02

Spam standard critcs err with glass is half emtpy attitude

Last week, purveyors of e-mail security solutions -- particularly those that operate in the anti-spam ecosystem -- started making hay over the alleged failure of the most prevalently deployed defacto standard for combatting spam: Meng Weng Wong's Sender Policy Framework SPF specification. SPF is not an anti-spam standard.  It's a sender...

Tags: spam, e-mail, Sender Policy Framework

Blog posts 2004-09-09

Civil liberties groups blast biometrics

Civil liberties groups blast biometricsThis is the introduction of...Revelation13:16 thru 18"Right" to travel by airA number of years ago, it was decided by the courts that driving an automobile was a "privilege," not a "right." Obviously, travel by air is also a privilege; if one is bothered that his/her...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, RFID, biometrics, passport

Discussion threads 2004-03-31

Tracking tags may get congressional scrutiny

Tracking tags may get congressional scrutinyDangerous TechnologyI don't normally agree with Democrats but Leahy is right on this issue.This is the technology which enables the surveillance society.Interestingly the only people dismissing the potential dangers are those who have a vested interest in the proliferation of RFID.Strong protections for the people...

Tags: RFID, RFID tag

Discussion threads 2004-03-25