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Monday, Mar 27 2006

One of Amazon’s biggest sellers in recent months is Heart Surgery for Dummies. The world is now full of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) heart surgeons.

Friday, Mar 17 2006

This is good googley stuff. The tutorial covers some of the standard types of operations that you may like to perform. Each of the operations is covered twice, once using “conventional” programming techniques and once using a slightly more elegant approach that makes use of the object-oriented language features. Google Maps API Basic Tutorial

Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com has a nice round-up of articles and thoughts related to managing the beast we .NET heads call ViewState.

This is one to bookmark: Wrangling ASP.NET Viewstate.

Thanks Jeff. You make us happy.

Friday, Mar 17 2006

There’s another Lucene (or should I say Lucene-ish) port on the street. KinoSearch has been emerging for a while, courtesy of Marvin Humphrey’s energetic and astute elbow grease.

KinoSearch is written in Perl, just like Plucene is. So why go Kino instead of Plucene?

I would do it just because I like this insane picture of Marvin. But Marvin himself gives a more reasonable justification when he recently put it something like this: If the guys currently behind Plucene had as much time as I have had to tinker and develop, Plucene would be just as great.

Marvin makes a fair point. Plucene is not that active these days. Both options are probably viable considerations for those looking for full-text search in a Perl env. However, Kino is clearly evolving quickly and a bit more up to date.

If you’re considering KinoSearch, O’Reilly’s OnLamp review will come in handy: CPAN Module Review: KinoSearch.

A website shows the true face of the organization as never before. A website is increasingly the place where customers get that vital first impression.

Tuesday, Mar 7 2006

Today the maker of the ever famous blogging software MovableType has annouced a Business Blogging initiative with solutions for a number of organization types and industries. The foundation: either their Movable Type or their hosted TypePad software.

Learn more.

Thursday, Mar 2 2006

Web Content Management (Web CMS) vendor Hot Banana Software and Active Marketing Solutions, have announced a new CMS solution - Hot Banana For Agencies - targeted exclusively at online, eMarketing and interactive agencies.

Hot Banana For Agencies is designed to help agencies manage their unique needs for clients who are running multiple marketing campaigns utilizing multiple time-limited, custom Landing Pages or Micro Marketing Sites.

Thursday, Mar 2 2006

One of our favorite ASP.NET component vendors, Telerik, has recently launched an AJAX developer center portal. Its pretty light weight for the time being and is obviously geared towards Telerik’s own ASP.NET rich callback component suite, but does offer some valuable resources for those just getting started with rich client AJAX dev.

Resources include: History of AJAX, Getting Started with AJAX, Problems and Challenges with AJAX (ASP.NET specific), etc. Telerik AJAX Developer Center