Monthly Archives: May 2004

Building Your First Business Process

Scott Woodgate over at MSDN TV demos “how easy it is to build a business process using Visual Studio .NET and BizTalk Server 2004, expose that business process as a Web service, and then consume the business process inside InfoPath … Continue reading

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Pop Goes the GMail

At this point, PGtGM looks to only be a proof-of-concept, but essentially it is destine to be a POP3 proxy for Google’s GMail. This is/will be a cool hack, but probably be a moot point once some of the rumored … Continue reading

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Gmail in the Enterprise

I’ve been disconnected all week in PeopleSoft training, but during lunch today I caught Steve Gillmor’s eWeek column from last week about Gmail where he cites a potential example of the “Google Platform” in the enterprise. “By the time the … Continue reading

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Frontier goes Open Source (soon)

After dabbling with Frontier over the last five years, I often miss the outlining features of Frontier’s built-in IDE when working in other environments. I’m intrigued however with Dave Winer’s latest announcement regarding the eminent release of the Frontier kernel … Continue reading

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Google Groups Beta 2

Google opened beta 2 of Google Groups. They’ve integrated it with Gmail, which gives you the ability to post to Usenet newsgroups as well as create new groups. All these “new” features are strangely reminiscent of what My Deja News … Continue reading

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Open Source Search Results Clustering Framework

My smart search buddies over at BA-Insight (who need to get their blog online!) pointed me to Carrot2, which is described as “ a system for clustering textual data“. (the site is a bit slow) Generally speaking, Carrot2 is an … Continue reading

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IBM’s Web-Based Desktop Apps

Based on a news.com story and /. thread, it seems like we’re “gonna party like it’s 1999” Again! (remember myWebOS) However this time IBM may possibly be able to pull this off. I don’t think IBM’s effort will significantly deplete … Continue reading

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Command Line Frontend to MovableType

I must have missed this, but back in December 2003, Johann Schmidt released the latest version of MTshell, which as the subject says is a CLI for MovableType. “MTshell is a perl program which allows you to maintain your Movable … Continue reading

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Adobe Designer 6.0 preview

As expected, Adobe has come back at MSFT’s InfoPath with the preview release of Adobe Designer 6.0 Jon Udell of course is spot on with a review in his blog of Designer, which can also be found in this weeks … Continue reading

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Boot. Play! Retro-style

Give that old PC a new life by turning it into a retro gaming console with the KnoppiXMAME Live CD Linux Distro. “KnoppiXMAME is a bootable CD/DVD image with hardware automatic probing and configuration for playing MAME games. No games … Continue reading

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