May 29, 2009
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Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 family of designer tools on July 10 in San Francisco, company officials said on May 28.
Silverlight 3 adds 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight, Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe Flash. The out-of-browser support will add to Silverlight capabilities that are available currently in Adobe AIR.
(Link: Silverlight 3 to launch July 10)
May 29, 2009
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CoTweet is a platform that helps companies reach and engage customers using Twitter.
(Link: CoTweet™ – How business does Twitter)
May 29, 2009
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Looking around for that checkout link, having to fill out registration forms and then being told the product is out of stock isn’t going to make your day. Spend a little bit of time fine tuning your checkout process and polishing off the user experience and you’ll be rewarded with happier customers and more sales. Here are 12 useful tips to help you do just that.
(Link: 12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process)
May 28, 2009
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Learning Management Systems
* 3.1 Angel
* 3.2 Moodle
* 3.3 OLAT
* 3.4 Sakai
* 3.5 Scholar360
* 3.6 WebCT Campus Edition
* 3.8 Dokeos
* 3.9 RCampus
* 3.10 Solo Learning
(Link: LMS Options and Comparisons – WebCT Wiki)
May 28, 2009
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At NeoK12, we believe that kids learn best when they ‘see’ how things work and why they happen.
Watching educational videos is a great way to learn because that’s the closest they can get to the real thing in most cases. And, combined with detailed explanations, it’s possibly one of the highly effective learning tools. Moreover, it’s fun, and when kids enjoy an activity, they learn and understand on their own.
We at NeoK12 are committed to cataloging the best free online educational videos from across the Internet at one place. We watch and review each and every video to ensure they are safe and appropriate for K-12 kids. We also check the accuracy of the content and catalog it under the relevant categories and topics.
(Link: neoK12 – educational videos and lessons for K-12 School Kids)
May 28, 2009
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What it comes down to is that PUT must create or update a specified resource by sending the full content of that same resource. POST operations, on the other hand, tell a web service exactly how to modify the contents of a resource that may be considered a container of other resources. POST operations may or may not result in additional directly accessible resources.
(Link: PUT or POST: The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery)
May 28, 2009
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How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides.
With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets. You can also ask multiple choice questions and watch a graph evolve as people vote.
(Link: Poll Everywhere – Use Twitter in PowerPoint)
May 28, 2009
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Sunspot for Ruby includes other methods to manipulate the index, too, such as remove(instances) and remove_all(classes). The former removes one or more instances from the index; a subsequent commit is required to affect the persistent index. (Optionally, you can call remove!(instance) to delete and commit in one fell swoop.) The latter method removes all instances of one or multiple classes from the index, (and has an analog remove_all!(class(es)) to implicitly commit.
(Link: Sunspot: A Solr-Powered Search Engine for Ruby)
May 28, 2009
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A software-based distributed caching system such as memcached is an important piece of today’s largest Internet sites that support millions of concurrent users and deliver user-friendly response times. The distributed nature of memcached design transforms 1000s of servers into one large caching pool with gigabytes of memory per node. This blog entry explores single-instance memcached scalability for a few usage patterns.
(Link: Scaling Memcached: 500,000+ Operations/Second with a Single-Socket UltraSPARC T2 – Parallelism on the Brain)
May 28, 2009
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Description
Sketches allows you to create and edit Ruby code from the comfort of your editor, while having it safely reloaded in IRB whenever changes to the code are saved.
Features
* Spawn an editor of your choosing from IRB.
* Automatically reload your code when it changes.
* Use a custom editor command.
* Use a custom temp directory to store sketches in.
(Link: Sketches – Gem to Automatically reload your code when it changes)
