Sandor Korozsi’s linkblog

"TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington reported 2 days ago about a new technology, created by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan, that could have a dramatic impact on the dynamic nature of web pages. The technology allows for the dynamic resizing of images and from the video demo, looks like it works very fluidly. He even mentioned how he wanted the technology in Adobe Photoshop.

Well, it looks like Michael may have gotten his wish as Adobe has hired co-inventor Shai Avidan to their team."

Check out the video to see the technology in action.

Ajaxian » New Technology: Dynamic Resizing of Images

Mike Taulty’s Blog : ADO.NET Entity Framework - Bringing Together A Few Previous Posts

The 10 Biggest Mistakes Freelancers Make, and How to Avoid Them | The Best Article Every day

Written by Leo Babauta

"JavaScript, with its death grip on the Interwebs and every AJAX developer’s language of only choice, is getting hot. With roll-overs, pop-ups, and menus either solved or relegated to CSS behaviors, XMLHttpRequests have made JavaScript once again a language of innovation. This article is meant to offer a tidbit of idiomatic advice for people who know JavaScript or want to know JavaScript coming from Java, C, Python, Perl, or PHP.

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Novice: objects and associative arrays
Novice: cute type conversions
Novice: iteration
Acolyte: anonymous functions
Acolyte: enclosure
Acolyte: context object manipulation
Acolyte: variadic arguments
Guru: binding
Guru: lazy function definition
Guru: polymorphic callable objects
"

JavaScript Tips for Novices, Acolytes, and Gurus

"It’s probably worth pointing out that though this tool was developed to make creating themes for SharePoint easier, it works with any website and has no real dependencies on SharePoint.

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As noted in the discussion of the image palette, all of these edits are actually taking place locally and have no effect on the server.

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Select Export Theme from the File Menu. Give your theme a name that will be used on the SharePoint server, pick a directory, and viola! You have a theme. Now all you have to do is install it."

SharePoint Skinner Overview

CSS2/DOM - Styling an input type="file"

"Quartz.NET is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be used from smallest apps to large scale enterprise systems. Quartz.NET is a port of very propular open source Java job scheduling framework, Quartz. This project owes very much to original Java project, it’s father James House and the project contributors. Quartz.NET is a pure .NET library written in C# which currently targets Framework version 1.1 and above. Quartz.NET has already almost caught up with Quartz Java 1.6 and there aren’t so many things missing. Quartz.NET is running in some production systems and has received good feedback."

Quartz.NET - Enterprise Job Scheduler for .NET Platform

"Table of Contents for on SharePoint 2007 WF Authoring using VS2005.

1. Setting up your environment for writing VS2005 workflows.

2. Writing an ultra basic workflow, deploying it, and slicing dicing how it worked.

3. Making that workflow more complex, adding if/else, and a bunch of activities that sort of make it more interesting.

4. Adding user interaction to that workflow using Infopath forms."

 

SharePoint 2007 Workflows - Enhancing the ultra-basic WF | Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com

Tim Sneath : From A to Z… 50 Silverlight Applications

Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs | Design Showcase