Hi Everyone, I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that we’ve been developing a new ePortal connector application for Salesforce.com.  This composite application will allow ePortal users to access their SalesForce Opportunities and associated information including Opportunity Products, and contact information through the ePortal, and thus the data in SalesForce will no longer be isolated.  Additionally, it will allow multiple departments to access

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New SalesForce Integration Connector Application for ePortal

Paul Hermans has kindly set up a process (I believe an XProc pipeline using Calabash and SAXON 9) to test the XML Schema to Schematron converter I have been documenting in this blog over the last few years. Here are some results. I made some changes in the initial round of tests to get it to bootstrap without hanging: some tests against circular inclusions for example.

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Converting XML Schemas to Schematron (#16): XML Schema Test Suite results for beta 0.5

A quick search reveals that many people have tackled the problem of implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. Here are just a few: Karl on WPF using stack frames Brownie Points using lambdas Alkampfer using CodeDom Microsoft’s advice in MSDN PConverse with a basic example on Code Project Composite Extensions comparing techniques on Codeplex Mike Saunders using aspects Daniel Vaughan using a flow-through class for weak references Here’s my solution: DON’T! You do not need to implement INotifyPropertyChanged in order to do data binding.

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How to not implement INotifyPropertyChanged

I think things are going on way too slow. Here are the plans for the future of ScrewTurn Wiki. Version 3.0 (30 September 2009) Finalize the release build, fixing bugs and smoothing edges Enforce compatibility with web farms (for SQL-based providers) Write user and developer documentation Package the application for non-xcopy installations (Microsoft Web Application Gallery) Definition of commercial branches (more on this later) Version 3.1 (January/February 2010) Pay some technical debt, i.e.

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Roadmap Considerations + Volunteers Recruiting

This is the tenth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering.

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Agile software development, the principles. Principle 10: Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential

According to a new survey by research and consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, manual configuration errors are wreaking havoc across IT organizations, not only impacting developer and staff productivity, but also causing significant delays in the roll out of customer-facing web applications. These errors are resulting in application downtime costing companies as much as $72,000 per hour

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Cost of Configuration Errors – Research Sheds Light on the Facts

At this year’s No Fluff Just Stuff conference, presenter Matthew McCullough, the managing partner of Ambient Ideas, LLC, gave an interesting talk on Open Source Debugging Tools, which touched on usage of freely-available tools such as cURL. cURL is a command-line tool which supports file transfer operations for a variety of protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, SCP, etc.) and can be used for a variety of useful tasks, such as retrieving the real source page of a web site: curl -i -H

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Google Mail Feed Utility

Brent Simmons writes on the Anatomy Of A Feature , using his recent work in NetNewsWire to add support for the popular Instapaper service: It’s tempting to think that adding a feature like this is just about adding the functionality — but there’s a bunch more to it than that. Here you see the gory, deliberate details that a responsible developer must consider when adding even what seems like an incredibly “easy feature.” Without a doubt, the part of my job that slows me down the most is exactly this kind of consideration

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Easy Features

As staff members set up or change appointments in the scheduling software, they will have the option of exporting this information into their personal calendar on their computer.  As this is completed, the staff member will then receive an e-mail with their calendar attached for later viewing.  By clicking on the email, they are able to add it to their calendar.  Customers on the other hand may export their schedule of appointments to their own calendar as they receive confirmation e-mail.  The appointment scheduling software allows at any time both the client and staff member can log in to view current schedules and appointments.  Clients can print out or export their schedule of appointments at any time. Appointments Per Time Slot: Scheduling Software Depending on what type of company you have, you may schedule anywhere from one to several patients at one time.  With our scheduling software you have the capability of scheduling and managing multiple patients in one time slot. A doctor may see several patients at one time so he or she would need the flexibility to schedule several patients in one time slot.  The scheduling software also allows you to customize your appointment screen with tabs that list items such as reservations, customers, tours etc.  For each block of time you can for example, name the task to be performed as it pertains to your business

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Exporting Appointments: Scheduling Software

Blogger Supports XML-RPC Protocol which enables 3rd part Clients to make posts on Blogger.One of the Best Blogging Clients is Windows Live Writer.It comes for free.They just need you to have a windows live id(Sign up for one if you don’t have any) Download Windows Live Writer What is Windows Live Writer? Its a Software which lets you to make posts to your blog from your desktop.This Software has a very simple and easy to use post editor with live preview and a bunch of very useful fea

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Using Windows Live Writer for Blogger