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I took some time this last week to review Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals, published back in September of 2010. As one who has specialized in portal technologies over the last 10 years, I look forward to Gartner’s take on the portal market...
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The App Store for Apple set a very good precedent for people paying at least something (often 99 cents) for mobile apps. There are a large number of apps, but if you can catapult to the “Top 100” list in iTunes, you can generate some revenue from the...
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We’ll back up a bit, to when I decided to try publishing to the Android Market. I had read that the Android publishing system was very open and quick with little to no oversight. This was considered a benefit for the following reasons No draconian “App...
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When I first got my HTC Incredible, I went to the Android Market and downloaded apps until I killed my battery. There are a ton of free apps, and one of the most popular genres is the “soundboard”. Name any popular TV show or movie (Family Guy, The Office...
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When I started thinking of the Gong project, I considered “How should I build it?”. I had heard some good things about Appcelerator’s Titanium. Their product lets you code mobile apps in JavaScript, and compiles it down to native code for either the iPhone...
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I have been curious about development for the Android mobile phone platform since I bought my HTC Incredible back in May. I knew that the Verizon phone ran Java, especially from the occasional misbehaved app that would blow up with a message like “com...
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This is our new blog at Syrinx for the tech industry - gadgets, trends, business items, things that don't fall under our other blog umbrellas. Enjoy! -Andrew
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I recently had the opportunity to help a client save a considerable amount of time by replacing a time consuming, mostly manual process with a fully automated service. The client has many locations throughout the country and employees a great number of...
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ADO.Net Entity Framework What is it? Microsoft definition: The ADO.NET Entity Framework is designed to enable developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a...
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A recent question on Twitter: "[SharePoint] costs as much to buy/implement/run in money as the productivity loss of not having it - agree or disagree?" I would say if you measure this in a vacuum, in the scope of one single project it's...
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I just wanted to drop a quick note about the installation of the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta released yesterday on MSDN. I setup a new virtual machine in my Hyper-V server as a new dedicated 2010 Beta server. I installed Office 2010 beta and SharePoint...
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The last day of the SPC had some tech-laden sessions hosted by Andrew Connell. The first was about migrating from 2007 to 2010, and how you can add the nice 2010 development features (like the ribbon and the developer dashboard) back into your 2007 master...
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First let me apologize for the lack of blogging for a while. We have been under the gun with a sizable SharePoint development project. I have gown farther down into the innards of InfoPath then I ever thought possible. To give you an idea, we worked over...
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Highlights from the day Steve Walker and Joe Indelicato (of Chevron, Joe formerly of the Houston Texans) put on a good presentation about using BI in both cases to improve the business. At the Texans, Joe pioneered using Microsoft technologies to data...
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There were more in-depth info on SharePoint features and client stories, as well as analyst views on Day 2. Booz Allen Hamilton had a great story about their intranet’s social networking features, and how they drove adoption in a conservative environment...