Various scenarios may require sending email messages or other types of notifications to users as part of the process flow. For example, certain types of exceptions that cannot be handled automatically may require manual intervention. For example, a BPEL process can use the notification service to alert users by voice, IM, SMS, or email. In a
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Chatting from SOA Suite 11g – how BPEL processes can use the XMPP protocol to notify the world
The Mark Logic Federal Division is sponsoring an invitation-only golf tournament on 9/10/09 to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project , a charity organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors by raising awareness of the needs of severely injured service members, by helping them to assist each other, and by providing unique direct programs and services to meet their needs. I wanted to take a moment to highlight this exceptional organization by sharing a few stories and videos. Consider, for example, the story of Dan Nevins who lost both legs as a result of injuries sustained in Iraq
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Mark Logic Golf Tournament to Benefit the Wounded Warrior Project
Wil Shipley writes about the compromised perfection we must strive for in order to provide users an experience that meets their human expectations: “Classic computer programming has largely failed, because it failed to copy nature. Nothing in nature works 100% of the time, but it sure works well MOST of the time – and when it fails, well, you die and get replaced. A human being, for instance, is an absolutely amazing machine, and is provably NOT provably correct.” I particularly like the example in the second half, having to do with smartly interpreting a typed ISBN numbers for product search.
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User Friendly Heuristics
August 19th, 2009 Members Area Rip & ReformatI am trying to duplicate a members area section and would like the whole section ripped and reorganize the content on the website.The Member Sections offers Free Downloads to apps like:FireFox, Skype, Internet Explorer along with Instruction Video on how to use each application. This section must be redesign and reorganize all the info we already have but need to rip it from members section.This project shouldn’t take longer then 1 day to complete
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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
From Alertbox’s article Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful : In testing an e-commerce site last month, for example, one user complained: “This is missing a feature to go back to the previous page.” I found this apparent request for a Back button puzzling, since the button was featured prominently in the browser and the person had easily used it earlier in the test session. Also, for six years, it’s been an established guideline to avoid duplicating browser functionality in the page design. It quickly became clear, however, that the user wasn’t asking for a duplicate Back button
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Not Crumby
In the past few months, we’ve been working with our customers and partners to help establish local user groups in a number of high MarkLogic-density areas. Towards that end, this is a quick post to announce the first Maryland Mark Logic User Group, dubbed Mark-UPS (Mark Logic User Participation Sessions) which is being coordinated by Telly Stroumbis of Boeing. Here are the details: Date/time: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
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Mark Logic Maryland User Group Inaugural Meeting 8/19/09
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
