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It has come to my attention via a recent DZone article that .NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you manipulate the way your garbage collector acts programmatically. This can be done through changing the value of a new property...
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I am down in Bloomfield, CT today at Hartford CodeCamp which has been put on by the Connecticut .NET Developer's Group . I just gave a very similar version my talk on the 5th. The room was completely full and I was a bit weak and foggy from my recent...
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Salutations, campers. I am currently working on eliminating my job... sort of. I am hard at work on a customer training manual, to help everyone out there who ever once said, "I can't find anything in the documentation", or, "The documentation... <insert...
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A Pecha Kucha presentation lasts 6 minutes and 40 seconds. If you're thinking that's a minute and forty seconds too long, then check out Ignite presentations . 20 slides, 15 seconds each for a total of five minutes. Here's an Ignite presentation on buying...
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Chuck Hollis (VP of Technology Alliances at EMC) has some interesting thoughts on the move to clouds . Under "What IT Vendors Should Think About": This shift in perspective forces a re-thinking in fundamental architectures, use cases and more when considering...
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EMC and IDC put together this study of the digital universe .Some interesting imaging tidbits: The Financial Industry isn't imaging in comparison to the rest of their IT usage: Take financial services, an industry synonymous with number crunching. Some...
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I spent an hour yesterday playing with generics to get my chops up a little better. After reading Krzystof Cwalina's post on the layout of the generic collections, I came up with this little gem: public class UniqueCollection<T> : Collection<T>...
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In the last throws of a testing sprint I started to go through my check list for all of the Atalasoft web components in IE (browser versions had been divied up for testing, and I got IE). Not too long ago I read an article about IE's developer toolbar,...
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Julia Lerman, who runs .NET Vermont and has presented at the Western MA .NET group (among other places, I'm sure), has written an article explaining how to use Ink on the web with Silverlight . I had been doing a lot of work with Ink on the Web and was...
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Jim King's Inside PDF blog is a great way to keep up with what's happening with PDF (especially standardization). Last week he detailed why extracting text from a PDF is so difficult : PDF specifies text content of pages as glyphs not characters. That...
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I'm going to be giving a presentation at the my local .NET User's group tonight. The goal of my talk will be to expose the audience to F# as well as some Functional Programming Ideas. Here's a basic rundown of what the talk is about (in order): - What...
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I frequently look back at the code I've designed with an eye toward improvement. Is it all that it can be? Does it do what it says with few surprises? Is it appropriately extensible? Today, I'll look at the Atalasoft OcrEngine object. This was my first...
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I was just flipping through a new book on a specific mainstream technology from a major publisher. The topic is interesting to me and the book looks like it's probably fine, but I'll never know, because it's over 600 pages and I don't have the time to...
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I'm writing some code using the new Managed C++/CLI syntax and I ran into this error: error C2039: 'Dispose' : is not a member of 'System::IDisposable' the code I started with was this: image->Dispose(); // image implements IDisposable which gave me...
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This is Part III in my quest to learn about Pecha Kucha presentations for my upcoming one at the Business of Software conference . Part I: Some early tips Part II: Reading sounds like reading So here's a Pecha Kucha about the business value of AJAX based...
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Yesterday, I shared some tips about preparing a Pecha Kucha presentation . So, I have finished my slides and written my script, and I'm trying to make a self-playing presentation out of it. The problem is, when I read the script it sounds like I'm reading...
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After attending and presenting at IPCV '80, I saw a number of presentations that could've been a lot better. I thought maybe the issue was that there weren't sufficient resources on how to give a technical presentation, so I did a quick google search...
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Just a reminder to all readers of the Atalasoft Blogs that Atalasoft has created several video tutorials about using the DotImage toolkit. The DotImage Tutorials page currently includes 3 sections (as of 07/31/08) starting with an overview of DotImage's...
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I've been preparing for my Pecha Kucha at the Business of Software conference. The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore...
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I found out last night that my high school physics teacher, Robert Carroll, passed away very recently. He was a teacher that was hard as nails and had it in his mind that he was going to push his students closer to their actual abilities rather than to...
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AIIM just released InformationZen, a social network site for Information Management professionals. Here's my InformationZen page , if you want to link with me. View my page on Information Zen Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...
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I've been playing around with writing a VS Project Template that includes a Wizard implemented in C#. I had done something similar many years ago when the only choice was C++, and boy have things gotten way better. Before doing anything else, I read a...
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Alan Pelz-Sharpe of CMS Watch has an interesting article about the importance of ECM Imaging : At many conferences, and regularly via e-mail, people ask me about imaging in the context of ECM. Imaging is the the major cost that most projects either forget...
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When developing two of my applications for 31 Apps in 31 Days ( here and here ), I discovered an issue with using YUI with our WebImageViewer. The script tag that references the YUI js files must be inside the main form element. If it is not, the DOM...
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Day 4 was the last day and for me it was a blur. There were a number of sessions that were missing half their speakers, and my eyes were starting to glaze over from some of the talks that featured a 'wall of math'. One talk that stood out was a math professor...
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