August 2006 Entries
The Zombie Preparedness Kit
I had a buddy that had this question recently. I think this is a great explanation… For print production (and web, actually) there are two basic image types: raster and vector. Raster images are made of pixels. Vector images are made of lines in the geometry sense of the word: they don’t have a thickness, really. They’re algebraic equations.This is a sample of a raster image: Raster images are resolution-dependent. They’re only as good as the resolution they were created...
Install Activesync 4.1 to connect to a Hosted Exchange 2003 mailbox on a Motorola Q Phone IMPORTANT : These instructions are only for the Motorola Q phone. See related article if you have another type of phone. Be sure that you have Outlook open to the correct profile while you do the activesync installation. Be sure that you have the CD that came with your device. Gathering Information Note you will need to know your exchange server address, username, password and domain. Download the certificate...
Install Certificate to connect to a Hosted Exchange 2003 mailbox on a Motorola Q Phone Prepare the Certificate to add to the Mobile Device You should be able to get the certificate from your Exchange admin. Download Certificate Installer from Microsoft Go to Microsoft and download the "Add Root Certificate Utility for Verizon SmartPhone" The exe should be "VZW_SpAddCert.exe" Go to Microsoft and download the "Add Root Certificate Utility for Verizon SmartPhone" (NOTE: this only works for PocketPC...
Screen Resolution and Page Layout Summary: Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024. One of the most frequently asked questions in my Web usability course is "What screen resolution should we design for?" The full answer is a bit tricky, but the basic advice is clear: Optimize for 1024x768, which is currently the most widely used screen size. Of course, the general guideline is to optimize for your target audience's...
Here’s the quick list of things I love to research and work on… Mainframe Integration to .NET IBM 3270 and IBM 5250 mainframe Attachmate Verastream Host Integration (programmatic integration technologies) IBM Bridge integration leveraging Attachmate’s Data Bridge technologies Legacy Database Migration IMS to Relational VSAM to Relational Enterprise N-Tier Systems Remoting Web Services Enterprise Services Distribution Systems Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Order Management System...
Here’s 3 options for distributing COM components for your ClickOnce deployments within an enterprise: - Use Reg-Free COM to get the COM components to autoregister after ClickOnce deployment. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... for more details on this option. This is an awesome option, but requires a lot of testing when you get it implemented. You - Use the Bootstrapper to pre-deploy our prerequisites. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/m...
Great links to good articles on how to customize the installer for a windows application. Found them while looking for ways to accept some inputs during the install before the user runs it. http://www.devx.com/dotnet/... http://www.simple-talk.com/... http://www.devx.com/dotnet/... http://www.codeproject.com/... http://www.codeproject.com/...