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VUE 1.5 (Mac)

The Visual Understanding Environment VUE project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for integrating digital resources into teaching and learning. VUE provides a visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Environment, VUE II Project, Visual Understanding Environment, RDF, Productivity, Internet

Software downloads 2007-03-27

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Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010

Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Structure101 3.2b361 (Mac)

Structure101 is a rich, interactive, visual environment that provides the user with a deep understanding of their software architecture (or "structure"). Structure101 lets you analyze, measure and control the quality of your software architecture. "Structure101 analyzes codebases to elicit the kind of information that good developers hold in their...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Headway Software Ltd., Structure101, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-10

MWC 09: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, where

MWC 09: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, whereRE: ... disappointed?"Linux is a disapointment as it is still not as user freiendly, and OSX is a disapointment in terms of operation and security issues."What does LLinux have to do with what the OP said?^o^You are a disapointment...for going off topic and bashing...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, disapointment, Apple Mac OS X, security

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

An Event Apart 2008: Day 1

The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...

Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook again

Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook againApple on the MoveApple continues to impress both in unit sales and marketshare gains. It has taken Steve Jobs awhile to make significant inroads into PC marketshare, but you are now witnessing the fruits of his perseverance. If Apple only had a development...

Tags: Development tools, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Visual Six Sigma: Making Data Analysis Lean

This paper introduces the idea of "Visual Six Sigma," a practical and pragmatic approach to data analysis and process improvement. This approach has been developed in response to a growing business need to broaden the use of Six Sigma-type thinking beyond the realms of highly trained and statistically savvy Black...

Tags: Data Analysis, SAS Institute, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Databases, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-03-01

Microsoft Patent App would add "trust system" to some cut-and-paste operations

There's a newly published Microsoft Patent application that - at least the way I read it- seems to both alter and add significant options to the way in which cut-and-paste is performed between various Windows-compatible documents and utilities. That's not to say you...

Tags: Word-processing, Application, Document, Portion, Paste, Managed Code, Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Logic, Determination, FIG, Managed Code Environment, Word-processing Application, Application Domain, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-31

What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?

What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?The area I see the most room fpr improvmentis not in new laguages or even expanding current laguages. It is the ability to marry them together easily. This has been a major problem for Microsoft in the past,...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Development tools, .NET, inmate, Microsoft Corp., hot button, programming, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Nautilus

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new. ...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Shell, Microsoft Corp., Nautilu, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-30

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1

The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1SOA vs Web.2.0Today results that Web 2.0 is everything. I just read a couple of days ago Dave Pode from the NY Times another definition. Web 2.0 is for him, the customer. When I was going to college, I took...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Channel management, advertisement, Web 2.0, SOA, Web

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Vista...*Sigh*

Vista...*Sigh*InterestingThat you seem to have had at least as many things that make you go "Hmmm" as George Ou did in his first foray into the relase copy of Vista. It's my guess the hardware vendors aren't (yet?) fully on board with Vista.$6 Billion, 6 Years, 70,000 employeesIt's not like...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Please Please, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-10

Adobe adds new Photoshop flavor with CS3

Adobe adds new Photoshop flavor with CS3ScoreThis sounds perfect. Finally, a single program to rule them all. Or at least the image editing ones I use. Being able to make photoshop quality 3d designs will be a God-send. Yay for Adobe!!!Who really needs Photoshop to be 3D?Sorry, but for 3D...

Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, 3D, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

Microsoft asks 'So who wants to be a programmer?'

Microsoft asks 'So who wants to be a programmer?'Poor way to teach...I was asked to review this content awhile back and at the time I said it had the same problem almost every "self taught" program/book/system to learn coding suffers from. The lack of teaching structure in programming.If you...

Tags: Development tools, Microsoft Corp., programmer

Discussion threads 2007-03-01

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint

Stephen Walli, the former Microsoft exec turned open-source proponent, is at it again. This time, the former Softie is making a case for why Microsoft should consider open-sourcing some of its crown jewels, including SQL Server and SharePoint. And hes got a few reasons that might make even...

Tags: Database, SQL Server, Corporate strategy, Legal, SharePoint Server, Linux, Stephen Walli

Blog posts 2007-01-18

A (Microsoft) code name a day: Hawaii

Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....

Tags: codename, Microsoft Corp., Code names, Visual Studio Orcas, Development tools, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2006-12-14

Getting ready for .NET 3.0

I've spent some time tooling around what was formerly known as Avalon and Indigo, then renamed to WinFX, and finally baptized as .NET 3.0, a move that positioned the development framework as the next step in .NET's evolution which makes a certain amount of sense. By "tooling...

Tags: API

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Scoble on the Microsoft/Adobe showdown

Scoble on the Microsoft/Adobe showdownDevs vs DesignersBut as you've said before on your blog ActionScript and the Flash runtime will never compete with the .NET framework. It's going to be easier to move the designers to new tools than to circumvent the limitations of a runtime platform. Java...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Macromedia Flash Player, Microsoft Corp., Java, Adobe Systems Inc., FDS, tool

Discussion threads 2006-10-12

Why open source works for Solaris

Why open source works for SolarisBut nobody said they wereSo I don't grok ...(and, by the way, ZFS is running on MacOS X/Darwinwith variations in the "playing with" stage at least for a couple of other BSDs. )DTrace and ZFS are *not* user level appsFor user level applications (eg a...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Unix, Sun Solaris, Joyent, open source

Discussion threads 2006-05-09