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

Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails Product Description Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails helps you to overcome typical obstacles hidden in every enterprise’s infrastructure. It doesn’t matter if your Rails application needs to access your company’s message-oriented middleware or if it has to scan through tons of huge XML documents to get a missing piece of data. Ruby and Rails enable you to create solutions that are both elegant and efficient.

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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

Web design is the skill of designing hypertext presentations of content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, micro blogging clients and RSS readers. The process of designing Web pages, Web sites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity,  graphic design,  human-computer interact

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There is an ongoing debate about best practices for configuration management between XML configuration with schema support versus Annotational meta data. I can make a valid argument either way so the choice really depends on each case and context. That said, I have been on large-scale enterprise migration project recently and having been 50% of the decision in that case to go with xml configuration over Annotations for the right reasons, now that the new, migrated application is getting huge,

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JEE Application Configuration with Spring and Java Annotations

I’ve been off filling my brain at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for the past two weeks, so I haven’t been able to post much. I have nevertheless managed to keep my Tweetstream going so, if you’re not already following me on Twitter , you may wish to consider doing so because I am changing my sharing pattern to include more Tweets based upon the realization that bit.ly makes it very easy to do so and that I only blog on somewhere between 5% and 25% of the topics that I throw on my to-blog list.

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We’ll be hosting another DII workshop soon, and this one will be of special interest to those who want to understand the inner workings of MCE (Markup Compatibility and Extensibility) as defined in Part 3 of ISO/IEC 29500.  We’ve used MCE for new functionality in documents created by Office 2010, and members of SC34 WG4 have expressed interest in understanding the details of our implementation.  So we’re planning a workshop in Redmond on Friday, September 18, the day after the upcoming SC34 plenary in nearby Bellevue, to do a deep-dive review of how Office 2010 uses MCE. For those who aren’t familiar with MCE, here’s how it is described in the Scope clause of the standard (ISO/IEC 29500-3): This Part of ISO/IEC 29500 describes a set of conventions that are used by Office Open XML documents to clearly mark elements and attributes introduced by future versions or extensions of Office Open XML documents, while providing a method by which consumers can obtain a baseline version of the Office Open XML document (a version without extensions) for interoperability. By using MCE for the new functionality in Office 2010, we can deliver innovations like sparklines in Excel 2010 or new slide transitions in PowerPoint 2010, while maintaining compatibility with the Open XML standard.  At this one-day event, members of the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and graphics teams will demonstrate these new capabilities and show how these new capabilities are stored in MCE alternate content blocks and extension lists

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DII Workshop: MCE Deep Dive, Redmond

Brent Simmons writes beautifully about a frustration that most indie software developers can relate to: the payoff proposition. He highlights the all-too-common scenario where a user offers a cash bounty, $50 for instance, to add a particular feature: “The developers I know would rather rip up $50 bills, long sequences of them, than do something that, in their best judgment, is against the best interests of the software and its users.” This reminds me of a listener question from a soon-to-be-released episode of Core Intuition , the podcast I do with Manton Reece . The question asks, roughly, “how can managers who don’t code relate better to their programmer employees?” Non-coder managers and customers have a lot in common: they have a great vision for the future of a product, with little understanding of the work it will take to get there.

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The Payoff Proposition

In Detail Blogger is a blog publishing system from Google with a friendly interface specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features including RSS feeds, link-backs, photo slideshows, and integration with popular Google applications like Picasa. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

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Announcing Crane’s Summer Sessions! Based on the success of the same training in Santa Ana in early June, one of the attendees at those classes has arranged for Crane to deliver our training event in the East Bay area of Central California for his fellow Masters students before their return to classes late August: XSLT /XQuery/ XPath – August 3-7, 2009 XSL-FO – August 10-12, 2009 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#Crane200908CA These are the most in-depth configurations of Crane’s XSL and XQuery training classes, covering the use of every element, every attribute, every keyword and every function of both XSLT/XPath 1.0 and 2.0 and XQuery 1.0, and every formatting object of XSL-FO 1.0 and 1.1 with more detail and more exercises than other available configurations of our material. Practical Transformation Using XSLT , XQuery and XPath (5 days): http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/ptuxq/ptuxqsyl.htm Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO (3 days): http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/pfux/pfuxsyl.htm Venue – Embassy Suites, Walnut Creek (Pleasant Hill BART), California http://tinyurl.com/nljjbk Instructor/author: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/bio/gkholman.htm Early-bird date for discounted registration: July 20, 2009 If you are interested in having us teach publicly or privately in any area of the world, please let us know. Thanks! .

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Announce: Hands-on XQuery/XSLT/XPath and XSL-FO
training in Walnut Creek, California August 2009 [XQuery Talk]