Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Feb 2, 2010 in
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CloudSwitch’s innovative software appliance enables enterprises to move their existing applications to the right cloud computing environment – securely, simply and without changes. With CloudSwitch, applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business. CloudSwitch protects enterprises from the complexity, risks and potential lock-in of cloud computing, freeing them to leverage the cloud’s advantages in cost and business agility.
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I got many questions and emails from people about my previous post about problems running windows communication foundation .svc in Windows 7 upgrade
Looks like many systems after you install .NET 3.0 the system does not register the SVC services, I have seen that in Windows XP normally and of course upgraded versions of Windows 7. If you get an error 500 the first thing to do is to enable the service for debug
Enabling debug on the svc Web Service, open the web.config and change the
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" /> to
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788993.aspx
If the problem is that IIS does not understand the svc extension, do not add it in the mimetype, follow the steps below:
Registering the SVC service run the ServiceModelReg –i on the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation directory.
The output should be this:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation>service
modelreg -i
Microsoft(R) Windows Communication Foundation Installation Utility
[Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Communication Foundation, Version 3.0.4506.2152]
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Installing: Machine.config Section Groups and Handlers
Installing: System.Web Build Provider
Installing: System.Web Compilation Assemblies
Installing: HTTP Handlers
Installing: HTTP Modules
Installing: Web Host Script Mappings
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation>
Web.Config
<extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement="Never" />
Hope this helps
Al
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Posted by Saud Khan on Feb 2, 2010 in
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View Original Article Today “Web” is very different from what it was few years ago. It is better, but far more challenging – you can no longer ignore things like usability, information architecture and design. That’s why wireframing has received so much attention lately.
Wireframing allows you to visually illustrate layout of fundamental elements in the user interface. It also acts as a way to communicate with clients and other stakeholders (content creators, designers, developers, etc). Furthermore, wireframing enables you to consider changes, user paths, and new requirements.
Wireframing is not one of those ritual that you can perform without thinking. You have to exactly identify your objectives and stay focused during the process. You can use wireframing to assist you in any or all of the following processes:
- Planning & Analysis
- Communication With Client and/or Team
- Documentation
Techniques
Depending on your personal preference, work environment and most importantly scope / complexity of your project; you can use one of the following general techniques to develop wireframes:
HTML/CSS Wireframing
This technique requires you to develop wireframes for your pages in HTML and CSS. It provides added benefit of planning and communicating interactive aspect of your UI design. Furthermore, you don’t need any special tools – your favorite set of web development tools will be more than sufficient.
Following is a list of useful resources; providing more details about HTML/CSS wireframing technique:
You will feel really comfortable with this technique if you have strong background in HTML/CSS. If you are primarily a graphic designer who outsource or depend on others for developing markup, you may want to consider other wireframing techniques.
Using Graphics / Wireframing Software
Lots of designers prefer to create complete design in Photoshop (or similar software) before converting it into HTML/CSS. It is important to note that this is not wireframing; although it can provide similar benefits – at comparatively high cost in terms of time. Wireframing is a step before actual visual design.
If you are more comfortable with traditional graphics software like InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop; you can consider creating wireframes using your favorite graphics tool. However it is important to note that this technique will not allow you to communicate interactive aspects of your UI design.
If you are working on a large projects and/or more complex working environment, traditional graphics tools may not be able to provide ideal solution. Luckily several wireframing tools are available to assist you with such challenges.
Following is a list of useful desktop and online wireframing tools you can consider (Free desktop tools are highlighted in bold):
Desktop Tools
Online Tools
Hand Drawings / Sketching
This is probably the easiest wireframing technique. If you are not using any other method – you must try this one before anything else. This technique is ideally suited when you need to quickly convert your ideas into wireframes.
Traditionally, you will use paper and pencil to draw your wireframes. However you can also use a Graphics Tablet or Tablet PC, which will also allows you to easily share and save your work.
Following is a list of useful resources; providing further details about this wireframing technique:
Beginner’s Guide
If you are new to wireframing, you should also look at the following articles, providing general overview, guidelines and best practices:
Additional Tools & Services
Following is a small list of related tools/services that you may find useful:
- Protonotes
Allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype by adding sticky notes.
- Mocklinkr
Enable you to easily deliver static mockups as linked-up and clickable website.
- Redmark
Helps designers and their clients communicate visually.
- Napkee
Lets you to export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3.
- ConceptShare
Design collaboration tool to manage feedback and review on creative content built for designers and their clients.
Free Downloads
There are numerous online resources where you can find download useful for wireframing. This is a small list of comparatively more popular destinations:
- Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit
A very comprehensive collection of UI elements for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG).
- Wireframe Magnets (DIY Kit)
This DIY magnet template is based on the Konigi wireframe stencils and includes 3 sheets of elements that might be useful in whiteboard prototyping. These sheets are made to print on magnetic sheets. (More Downloads from Konigi)
- Graffletopia
Large collection of User Interface stencils for OmniGraffle.
- EightShapes Unify
Collection of templates, libraries, and other assets fore Adobe Creative Suite of products, primarily Adobe InDesign.
- Mockups To Go
A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.
In order to keep this article short, only a limited number of resources have been provided; but feel free to search for better alternatives and share with rest of us in your comments.
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Posted by Mehul Harry (Developer Express) on Feb 2, 2010 in
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View Original Article Check out this short mix of the developer feedback from the recent Zurich stop of DevExpress European road show/tour:
Oliver and I began our epic 4 city journey in London, UK then drove to Frankfurt, Germany and arrived at Zurich, Switzerland.
Our goal is to train developers on the “Business Apps with DXperience ASP.NET” course. From the attendees feedback below, they enjoyed the class and experience very much:
Thanks to everyone in the Zurich class!
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Posted by David Marshall on Feb 2, 2010 in
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Check out these three great new articles from the Cloud Slam Event Blog - Re-thinking Private Clouds, Economics of Cloud Storage, and Legal...
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Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Feb 2, 2010 in
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Your operations teams are constantly plagued by problems after patches, updates and other configuration changes have been made to VMs and hosts. So when performance problems arise, or when a new bottleneck is identified, how can you quickly identify VM and host configurations that don't comply with standards?
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Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Feb 2, 2010 in
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AppZero has announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named its server-side application virtualization software one of the "100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products." The Top 100 Cloud Computing products include 20 storage vendors, 20 security vendors, 20 productivity vendors, 20 infrastructure vendors and 20 platform vendors.
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Posted by 4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines on Feb 2, 2010 in
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Like every Web control in the ASP.NET toolbox, the GridView includes a variety of style-related properties, including CssClass, Font, ForeColor,
BackColor, Width, Height, and so on. The GridView also includes style properties that apply to certain classes of rows in the grid,
such as RowStyle, AlternatingRowStyle, HeaderStyle, and PagerStyle. Each of these meta-style properties offer the standard
style properties (CssClass, Font, etc.) as subproperties.
In ASP.NET 4.0, Microsoft added four new style properties to the GridView control: SortedAscendingHeaderStyle, SortedAscendingCellStyle,
SortedDescendingHeaderStyle, and SortedDescendingCellStyle. These four properties are meta-style properties like RowStyle and HeaderStyle,
but apply to column of cells rather than a row. These properties only apply when the GridView is sorted - if the grid's data is sorted in ascending order then the
SortedAscendingHeaderStyle and SortedAscendingCellStyle properties define the styles for the column the data is sorted by. The
SortedDescendingHeaderStyle and SortedDescendingCellStyle properties apply to the sorted column when the results are sorted in descending order.
These four new properties make it easier to customize the appearance of the column by which the data is sorted. Using these properties along with a touch of
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) it is possible to add up and down arrows to the sorted column's header to indicate
whether the data is sorted in ascending or descending order. Likewise, these properties can be used to shade the sorted column or make its text bold. This article shows how to
use these four new properties to style the sorted column. Read on to learn more!
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Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Feb 2, 2010 in
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For those of us familiar with the network equipment industry, the suggestion that computing costs will fall to the cost of power should at least raise some eyebrows within cultures that for the most part have been driven by manual labor and specialization.
Lew Tucker’s response to the Lew's Law blog further helped to clarify the point I was trying to make about the rise of IT automation and the network’s pivotal role:
While I'm sure this is more obvious than brilliant, the cost of computing will continue to fall bounded only by the cost of the power to produce the computation. We're simply turning electricity into computation and communication using electrons to move around bits.
What cloud computing does is to use automation, scaling, multi-tenancy, and a competitive marketplace to bring us closer to this lower bound for the cost of computing.
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Posted by David Marshall on Feb 2, 2010 in
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SoftLayer today announced it had added VMware ESX for server virtualization to its comprehensive portfolio of software services . The new service can
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