Date: 03/01/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: software, database, asp, jsp, web, microsoft

Has anyone here ever used FileMaker Pro (http://www.filemaker.com/)? I have one client who is starting up a Pilates studio and she's looking at http://www.pilatessoftware.com for her internal management. She would also like to have the website interact with it (ie. have members log in and register for classes, etc.) It seems that the network ready version of the Get Physical (pilatessoftware.com) uses FileMaker as it's underlying database. The FileMaker site has the following:

ODBC/JDBC source
Exchange data with other applications via the ODBC/JDBC source support in FileMaker Server 8 Advanced. For example, you can replicate FileMaker information to other database products, use other reporting tools with FileMaker data, or build JSP or ASP websites based on FileMaker data, using popular tools such as Lasso Studio, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Adobe GoLive CS, and Microsoft FrontPage.

So it seems that I can get the info from the program but does anyone know if I'd be able to send info back to it? or is it a one-way channel?

x-posted to webdesign, webdev

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/420815.html

Date: 03/07/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, technology, microsoft

Microsoft is vigorously defending its decision to turn on its ClearType font rendering technology in Internet Explorer 7 even if users have switched it off system-wide. ClearType is designed to make text more readable on LCD screens. By default, it's disabled in Windows, but Microsoft's IE 7 team has decided to enable it for the browser, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-knows-whats-best-for-you/

Date: 03/07/06 (SQL Server)    Keywords: software, sql, microsoft

Okay, I give up. I've been beating myself over the head with this all day.

I'm trying to install SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. I keep getting the error "SQL Server Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or Remove Programs to remove these components, and then run SQL Server 2005 Setup again." There's another sentence, but it's useless.

I have uninstalled anything and everything listed in add/remove programs that could possibly be causing this error, and I still get it. I got so frustrated I installed VS2005 Standard, hoping that it would overwrite whatever the problem component is, but no help there.

Tell me what lists, files, registry settings, etc. you need to see to be able to tell me what I need to fix to get this to work. Please. And thanks.

EDIT: Running the auto-force-removal tool, not surprisingly, found nothing else to uninstall. Going through the core.log file reveals:
Product "{3BDB182E-8371-46BD-AC39-C14A91D5EEF8}" versioned 9.00.852 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 9.00.1399.06
The Product Name is "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Beta 2"
Product "{63A5DC0D-1EDD-4D69-8F31-87FAEB1F7084}" versioned 9.00.852 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 9.00.1399.06
The Product Name is "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification Services Beta 2"
Product "{E0A41F96-7231-4AE8-A654-EEB34F935462}" versioned 9.00.852 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 9.00.1399.06
The Product Name is "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation Services Beta 2"
Product "{90032DD0-ABEE-4424-AC1E-B076BDD4E350}" versioned 9.00.852 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 9.00.1399.06
The Product Name is "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Beta 2"

The products are not listed in add/remove programs, and the bracketed values are not findable in the computer's registry. I'd rather not just wander around deleting DLLs randomly; if anyone's got any ideas where I might find these keys/files/proggies/what-have-you, I'm all ears.

EDIT2: Solved. Left here in case anyone else has the problem...

there were four registry entries left over from beta software I'd removed months ago. They were in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Installer/Products; anything in there from .NET2 betas, even if those products are long gone, will set off the watchdog.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/sqlserver/45014.html

Date: 03/07/06 (Application Development)    Keywords: software, microsoft

European free-software advocates say software operators should be wary of Microsoft's proposal to open its source code.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6046754.html

Date: 03/09/06 (SQL Server)    Keywords: sql, microsoft

My apologies. I've been quite inquisitive the past few weeks. It'll get slightly worse before it gets better, but it will get better, eventually.

Installed SQL Server 2005. Attempted to start SQL Server Management Studio. Splash screen flashed. Then nothing. Tried to start Business Intelligence Development Studio. Got the following error message:

Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.

Yelled at the computer, sacrificed a few small animals, did a rain dance. Nothing worked. Attempted a "repair installation" routine which told me everything was, in fact, installed. Finally broke down and reinstalled the application-- from scratch (as in, pulled off all SQL Server 2005 components, not just the BI stuff, and reinstalled everything.) Tried to start SQL Server Management Studio. This time I got the splash screen for almost a full second, but the end result was still no program. Tried to start Business Intelligence Development Studio, and... you know the drill.

As reinstalling is an admission of failure on both my part and Microsoft's-- especially when I have to do it twice in a row, with the same outcome expected when I do it again-- does anyone know of any way I can find out which component(s) is/are missing and work from there?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/sqlserver/45630.html

Date: 03/09/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, technology, security, spyware, microsoft

Preview version of Microsoft's security software is updated with anti-spyware technology, a slight name change and bug fixes.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6048141.html

Date: 03/10/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are: Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX. It is hard to use because it is small and also [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-unveils-windows-live-portal/

Date: 03/10/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

I have heard and seen enough of Origami, the futuristic laptop from Microsoft. I went through the apparently secret video of product advertisement, I have seen numerous pictures of origami and I have decided. I hate it. Origami is yet another monstrosity from Microsoft (with due regards to Windows). It is a clumsy product to carry [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/i-hate-origami-futuristic-laptop-from-microsoft-rant-ahead/

Date: 03/10/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, asp, sql, web, microsoft

Wow, there are 776 members in this community. I thought we could introduce ourselves. What work you currently do, levels of experience, and what your career plan for the future is. I'm just curious about all my fellow web developers. ;)

Me: I'm a PHP/MySQL web developer in Seattle, working at a design firm that specializes in corporate identity (logos/brochures/websites/etc). I have two years of "professional" work experience, though I've been coding and building websites since I was a kid. I taught myself everything through personal side projects. I'm looking at getting into C#/ASP/.NET and trying for some Microsoft certification (MCAD/MCSD.NET?) since web applications seem to be the growing thing, and was wondering if anyone else is along the same path, or has any advice.

Okay, your turn, share, share, share! =)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/305365.html

Date: 03/11/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, microsoft

Company fixes mistake which, for a brief period, caused its antivirus tools to remove or quarantine Microsoft's Excel, and applications.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6048709.html

Date: 03/11/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: software, browser, css, html, xml, asp, java, web, linux, seo, microsoft

Events: A Introduction to the Model of GUI programing

Xah Lee, 2005-05

In Graphical User Interface (GUI) programing, there's the concept of event. For example, moving the mouse, clicking a mouse button, switch to a different window, hitting a key. The software needs to respond to these things. The way it works is that, the programer writes code that draw buttons, menus, windows etc. And the programer write his program so that it knows the mouse position, mouse click, keyboard press, or any other signal from input devices. The programer also writes code so that for example if a mouse click happened, and its position is inside a button, then some function is called as a reaction.


All this is very tedious and very complex. What happens today is that most of the common tasks for GUI software are already written as a package called framework. That is to say, the codes to draw GUI elements such as windows or buttons or dialogue popups, and the detection of input signals such as button clicking or menu selection or keyboard inputs, are all integrated together as a pre-written set of code. The programer is relieved of writing these tedious code. Instead, he call predefined functions in the framework to deal with many issues related to creating a GUI.

In such a framework, it is still quite complicated. Such framework often comes in the guise of Operating System Developer's Kit. For example, writing application in Mac OS uses Apple's kit called Cocoa, Carbon, Toolbox, and there's also Microsoft's Foundation Classes (MFC) and Linux has frameworks such as Gnome, and Java offers its own GUI framework called AWK and Swing.

All these frameworks are incompatible with each other, but the model they use are basically the same. In today's personal computing, one basically have graphical “Windows”, and in it one has “Menus”, and “Buttons”, “Dialogues”. User point or click on these to tell the software to do specific things. For the programer, the way it works in these frameworks is like this:

In the framework, GUI elements such as Windows, Menus, Buttons are collectively called “widgets”. For each GUI element there is a pre-defined function that draws them. The programer calls these functions to draw them. When a user act on these widgets such as pressing a button, the widget's function will receive a signal. Each widget may be associated with different types of signals. For example, Windows can be dragged or resized, while a button can be clicked, a menu has items to be selected. When a Window is dragged, the corresponding widget function might get a signal that is the positions of beginning and ending coordinates. When a window is closed, the widget function will get a “close” signal. When a button is clicked, that button's widget function will get a “click” signal. When a menu is pulled, that menu's widget function will get a signal of the selected item.

For each widget-drawing function the programer called, he assigns to it a function called “event handler”. These event handlers are called and are given the signals when user acts on them. For example, when a button is clicked, the button widget function automatically calls its event handler function and gives it “clicked” as argument.

The programer doesn't have to worry about how the button function knew when it is being pressed. All that is implemented in the framework. The GUI programer today only needs to call these widget function as to design the appearance of the window, where the button shows up, what menu items are there etc, and assign a function (event handler) to each of these functions, so that when these GUI elements are hit, the widge functions call the programer's event handler functions, which do whatever computation the software is actually supposed to do.
HTML, DOM, JavaScript, and the Browser as a GUI Application Platform

In writing Web Application using JavaScript, the technologies involved are HTML, DOM, JavaScript, and the Browser.

The HTML (and related technologies such as XML and CSS) are used to show the GUI widgets and content. DOM ascribes to HTML a standard definition of structural meaning so that it can be manipulated programmatically. And, JavaScript is the language that actually lets the programer program what happens. While the browser, is the underlying engine that ties everything together. It takes care of rendering the HTML, and takes care of knowing all the mouse positions and register all events (user actions) such as keystroks, mouse movement, clicks, menu pulls, window closing etc. It takes care of interpreting the JavaScript code, and will execute them when a event happens.

Here, the GUI is the browser window and HTML elements (radio checklist, check box list, menu list, text field, button, window pane/frame etc.). The events (user actions) are defined by DOM. They are for example: oncopy, ondrag, onload, onclick, onkeydown, onmouseover. And the actions (event handlers) are JavaScript functions the user writes.

For example, it may be desired to change the cursor icon to a finger when the mouse is moved over a hyperlink. So, a hyperlink (considered as a widget) has a MouseOver event, and the programer can assign a event handler to it, so when a mouse hovers over a link, that function is called, and the function's code changes the mouse pointer icon to a finger icon.

For list of events defined by DOM, see for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events.asp
Assign Event Handlers to GUI Widgets

To associate a event handler to a HTML widget, there are two ways. One way is to put the code directly inside the HTML tag, like this:

Hover Over Me!

Hover Over Me!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/96319.html

Date: 03/13/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft wants to grab a larger piece of the $15 billion U.S. market for Internet advertising with a revamped search engine.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6048794.html

Date: 03/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Patches released in Microsoft's monthly security update cycle tackle six holes in Office and one in Windows.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6049575.html

Date: 03/17/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

It plans to publish findings from its third Blue Hat confab, where hackers give tips to Microsoft execs.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6050985.html

Date: 03/21/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Microsoft is looking into public reports of a flaw in IE that could cause a malicious Web site to crash the browser.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6051656.html

Date: 03/20/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

What used to be the "mainframe" business is now a two-horse race, and that is the battle Microsoft will really begin when it releases Vista, this fall.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=598

Date: 03/22/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

What do you really need on a new client? And hasn't the whole idea of a client been blown-up lately, with devices like the iPod, the cell phone, and Microsoft's own XBox now replacing what the PC could have and would have done?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=600

Date: 03/22/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: programming, browser, html, xml, java, microsoft

I'm writing a bit of Javascript (not quite a total newbie but gosh-darn close, though I have experience in other programming languages) to display some XML transformed by XSL. I've created the files to do this and if I use them seperately (sans Javascript), it displays just fine. And that's fine for browsers that have that capability and can handle that without issues, but I'd like to see if I couldn't increase its compatibility a bit by using (drum-roll) Javascript.

Here's the contents of the two files. All of the info is completely made up.

employees.xml contains:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/97239.html

Date: 03/23/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: microsoft

Has anyone here successfully used ldap to change passwords?

I am writing a small ColdFusion app to change passwords for our technicians.

I found an article with requirements to do so, but I have a hard time believing it is as difficult as it is stated.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q269190/

Thanks in advance
Jeff

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/35887.html

Date: 03/24/06 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

Following its push back of Windows Vista, Microsoft confims the Office 2007 release will move to next year as well.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6053504.html