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[Smallbiztechnology.com - technology is a tool! Use it to GROW your business.] The Writing Is On The Wall: Microsoft Embracing Linux: For as long as Linux has been around, Microsoft has resisted supporting this alternative operating system. Linux's growth means less businesses will use Microsoft's operating system for their servers and desktops. It supports Apple because Apple is hardly a blip on Microsoft's radar screen - but Linux is looming larger and larger.
[Smallbiztechnology.com - technology is a tool! Use it to GROW your business.] 64bit Computing Explained: 64-bit computing won't bring us two times the performance in an amazing overnight transformation of the PC, as the move from 8 bits to 16 seemed to do back in the day. But it's not a pointless exercise in shuffling bits, either. The 64-bit extensions to the venerable x86 instruction set architecture (ISA), including AMD64 and Intel's code-compatible EM64T, actually offer some tangible benefits with few drawbacks. These extensions to the x86 ISA offer a much larger memory address space, bring a cleaner programming model with performance benefits, and retain backward compatibility with existing 32-bit applications.
[Smallbiztechnology.com - technology is a tool! Use it to GROW your business.] Web E-Mail: The Best is Yet To Come: Business Week writes A NEW WEB MAIL PROGRAM from America Online and a forthcoming one from Earthlink show the technology to good advantage. The new AOL Web mail service is superior in some ways to AOL software you install on your PC. In addition to being fast, it shows all your folders in a pane to the left of the message list, and you can move messages simply by clicking on them and dragging them to the appropriate folder. This won't sound like a big deal to users of Microsoft Outlook or other programs that run on your desktop.
[Smallbiztechnology.com - technology is a tool! Use it to GROW your business.] Book Reviw: Firefox & Thunderbird Garage: If you want to go beyond just using Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird, web browswer and email client respectively, you'll want to check out Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference's new published "Firefox & Thunderbird Garage," the book that shows everyday computer users -- whether newbies or seasoned professionals -- how to make the most of Mozilla's trailblazing Web browser and email programs. Mozilla is the open source software project that develops and distributes the popular Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird applications.
rdoherty's WebLog :: Now that I had a result set containing my source data, I wanted to persist a copy of that result set in a table before doing anything with it. This is a good design-time best practice because it allows you to compare your source data unmolested with whatever you wind up with at the end of your data flow task. To accomplish this, I simply connected my XML Source Adapter to a Multicast transform with a data flow. Then I routed the data flow outputs from my multicast transform to both to an OLE DB Destination Adapter targeting SQL Server to persist the original source data, and to subsequent transformations in my data flow task.
Andrew May's WebLog :: And that may be part of the problem: four CD's in, I had hoped to hear the band move beyond the territory they staked out with their first three efforts. This time around, they've gone for a rougher sound: the guitars are louder, the song hooks buried, and Shirley Manson's vocals filtered in many places until they sound like she's singing through a drive-thru window speaker. But for all the surface changes, the music doesn't really incorporate any new influences, present any new ideas, or ever take any unexpected turns. (As much as I like the title track, it takes you about a verse and a half to realize they're doing an intentional riff on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side.) Granted, I've listened to the CD a grand total of two times, so I reserve the right to change my opinion.
Gilles' WebLog :: /// </summary> /// <param name="XsltStream">Stream of XSLT as XML.</param> /// <param name="XsltArguments">Stream of Extension Objects as XML.</param> public BizTalkMap(Stream XsltStream, Stream XsltArguments) { xsltStream = XsltStream; xsltArguments = XsltArguments; } /// <summary> /// Transforms the given instance and returns the result as a stream. /// </summary> /// <param name="inXml">Stream of the instance to transform (XML)</param> /// <returns>Stream of the transformed XML.</returns> public Stream TransformInstance(Stream inXml) { XslTransform transform = Transform; XmlDocument xmlInputDoc = new XmlDocument(); // Make sure we do not destroy the formatting xmlInputDoc.Load(inXml); // Output stream MemoryStream outStream = new MemoryStream(); XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(outStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8); // Formatting options xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; xmlWriter.Indentation = 2; // Perform transformation - We do not specify a resolver transform.Transform(xmlInputDoc, TransformArgs, xmlWriter, null); // Prepare the output stream outStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); return outStream; } /// <summary> /// Gets an instance of XslTransform for the given XSL/Extension objects. /// </summary> private XslTransform Transform { get { if (xslTransform == null) { // Create a new transform XmlTextReader xsltReader = new XmlTextReader(xsltStream); XslTransform transformTemp = new XslTransform(); transformTemp.Load(xsltReader, (XmlResolver) null, GetType().Assembly.Evidence); // Cache the transform xslTransform = transformTemp; } return xslTransform; } } /// <summary> /// Gets a XsltArgumentList from a BizTalk Extension Object XML. /// </summary> private XsltArgumentList TransformArgs { get { if (xslArgumentList == null) { XmlDocument xmlExtension = new XmlDocument(); XsltArgumentList xslArgList = new XsltArgumentList(); if (xsltArguments != null) { // Load the argument list and create all the needed instances xmlExtension.Load(xsltArguments); XmlNodeList xmlExtensionNodes = xmlExtension.SelectNodes("//ExtensionObjects/ExtensionObject"); foreach (XmlNode extObjNode in xmlExtensionNodes) { XmlAttributeCollection extAttributes = extObjNode.Attributes; XmlNode namespaceNode = extAttributes.GetNamedItem("Namespace"); XmlNode assemblyNode = extAttributes.GetNamedItem("AssemblyName"); XmlNode classNode = extAttributes.GetNamedItem("ClassName"); Assembly extAssembly = Assembly.Load(assemblyNode.Value); object extObj = extAssembly.CreateInstance(classNode.Value); xslArgList.AddExtensionObject(namespaceNode.Value, extObj); } } // Cache the list xslArgumentList = xslArgList; } return xslArgumentList; } } } }
Josh Lee's Financial Services Blog :: I just returned from a week in London. Forget what I was there for”¦highly confidential, at some point you’ll likely hear about that later. But I took this opportunity to try a new airline. You see, I’ve been a lifelong (and I mean that literally) loyalist to United Airlines and the Star Alliance. And after this week, it appears that I will be returning to them with hat in hand. Let me explain how things progressed. I was traveling with a colleague”¦the very talented Brenton Webster. He suggested that we take advantage of the time benefits (certainly not the price benefits) of flying the direct Seattle to Heathrow flight on British Airways. They even have a special deal with Microsoft where for VERY few miles you can upgrade from Club World to First Class. Well, issue number one”¦I’m not a member, so I promptly join their mileage program, which of course requires that I reserve a flight first. Ah, but there is the issue, to get the upgrade you have to apply for it BEFORE you book the flight. So I’m sort of stuck, forget that I have no miles in my account (I promptly transferred miles from hotel programs, which thankfully took only about a week”¦probably web services via the US Postal Service). Brenton, being the saint that he is, decided to help me out with his miles and had numerous calls with British Airways supervisory staff, only to learn that they would NOT allow him to use his miles for my upgrade, very unlike Star Alliance. We made a valiant effort at the airport and in the lounge to try again”¦nothing doing.
Shortcomings of the DataSet: Maybe because it's designed to work in a disconnected environment, but given that so many systems work in an environment where data is constantly updating it seems surprising that DataSets don't have better support for realtime updates. The main problem is that there is no way to differentiate between data updated by the user (through in-place editing, for example) and data updated from the source, and even if there was a way to differentiate there certainly aren't any merge conflict resolution features built in to the DataSet.
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Posted at May 21, 2005 09:14 AM
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