Archive for July, 2009

MySQL Librarian publishes

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

With the MySQL Librarian is now a place on the web was founded on the article, news, blog entries, and download links about MySQL can be collected. MySQL user should be used as a platform for a comprehensive overview of the subject. The offer will also descriptions of presentations and books and photographs and videos have included the contents of each can from the community to be displayed.

A detailed description of the MySQL Librarian is available in the DevZone.

Link: via MySQL Librarian

What we can do ajax

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

* Modifications to the browser, adding buttons, toolbars, bookmarks, icons, ….
* Access to local files
* Running music files or apply effects
* HotKeys gives conflicts in other browsers
* Access Hardware
* Comnicaciones extended HTTP and other protocols.
* Interaction with the Operating System

Anyway time to timeĀ 

The promotional video for Office 2010

Monday, July 13th, 2009

The series of promotional videos for Office 2010 trying to launch the software as the plot of a film of action, are fun.

There’s a part where you see the tomb of Clippy, the Office tool from which it is often mocked, he has been absent in recent versions of Office software.

It also includes an interview to find the missing sources. However, the woman tells him in captivity are among “Arial” and “Wingdings”


Video: Office 2010: The Movie [02:15 min]

Microsoft has said it will have a preview of the techniques of software this month. For more information visit Office 2010: The Movie Web site

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 comes out

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Today released the official version of Silverlight 3, the solution that Microsoft intends to steal the Adobe Flash site to offer to them a richer navigation experience with the greatest support to the new multimedia technologies.

Silverlight 3 introduces over 50 new features, including support 3D accelerated GPU, video H.264 and support outside of the browser which will allow developers to create applications, like Adobe AIR.

Is already available here for Windows, OS X and … oh … no, wait … that’s all.

Link: via Microsoft

Doodle.js, library for working with canvas

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Doodle.js is a library that allows us to easily work with the element <canvas /> and everything that entails. With a similar aesthetic to jQuery, drawing on the canvas that is <canvas /> is as simple as this:


  <head>
  <!--[if IE]><script type="text/javascript" src="http://explorercanvas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/excanvas.js"></script><![endif]-->
  <script src="./doodle-0.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    function init() {
      (function(oo) {
  oo.canvas('#my_canvas');
  oo.rect({x:25, y:25, width:50, height:50}).draw();

})($doodle);

    };
  </script>
  </head>
  <!--init() is called when the canvas is ready for us.-->
  <body onload="javascript:init();">
    <canvas id="my_canvas" width="600" height="400">
      <p>Fallback: Canvas element is not supported in this browser!</p>
    </canvas>
  </body>

Examples

Do not miss some of the examples available on the homepage of the library:
Spiral multicolor
Rebounds multiple

Proposal subtitle for HTML5 video tag

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

In Ginger’s Thoughts I read a very interesting proposal which I believe is that in just a proposal. Although the idea is very good and it might be interesting to have this in the new HTML5. The proposal is for December 2008 and so far no developments.
The idea is to include the tag HTML5′s ability to handle subtitles:

<video src="http://example.com/video.ogv" controls>
<text category="CC" lang="en" type="text/x-srt" src="caption.srt"></text>
<text category="SUB" lang="de" type="application/ttaf+xml" src="german.dfxp"></text>
<text category="SUB" lang="jp" type="application/smil" src="japanese.smil"></text>
<text category="SUB" lang="fr" type="text/x-srt" src="translation_webservice/fr/caption.srt"></text>
</video>

As we can see in the above code, we would be including the text tag that would allow us to establish the lang attribute of the subtitle language and select it from your control in your browser (the preset default language of your browser) .

The tag <text />
Only indicate the location of the subtitle file to load src indicating the language lang and type type of a subtitle that we carry.

For now …
At the moment we can make use of SRT jQuert to simulate the result with Javascript.

<!-- Javascript -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.srt.js"></script>

<!-- HTML  -->
<video src="http://example.com/video.ogv" id="video" controls>
<div class="srt"
data-video="video"
data-srt="http://example.com/video.srt" />

The idea is interesting when the films arrive officially to the Internet. Huh?

Autodesk Inventor Fusion promises to revolutionize the market for CAD

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009


Video: Autodesk Labs Inventor Fusion: Overview [04:07 min]

Autodesk announced its 2010 product line with several new features. Is the market leader in CAD with its AutoCAD product, which is the benchmark since 1982 and has not lost its validity. The company has 9 million users and 700,000 companies registered as clients, apart from recognition as the second most pirated software on the market.

The version of AutoCAD 2010 brings new features:
* Import and export in PDF format
* 3D Geometries
* Parametric Drawing
* 3D Printing

The Autodesk product family offers solutions for architecture, industrial design and manufacturing, with specific products in the area of design, simulation and visualization. Architecture, Civil, Electrical, Map3D, Mechanical, MEP and the P & ID product family, all with first name and surname AUTOCAD 2010. New in the 2010 family is the consistency between all the products in the family, both as a user interface formats.

The real news is Autodesk Inventor Fusion. This is a completely intuitive CAD for the production of prototypes, which is available to anyone who wants to test free of charge. Autodesk is an experiment in which they are looking for the users to decide the use that will give the software and even paying for it. We created this software may be stored in DWG format, which is compatible with any CAD software market.

Parametric design fuses and direct without any annoying toolbars and complex: it is done with mouse movements, as if it were taken with the hands.

Several of the family products will be available soon for Mac, and as for hardware, the 2010 family requires the same as the previous version.

Link: via Autodesk Labs

PostgreSQL 8.4 maintains its distance with rivals

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009


The Group PostgreSQL Global Development has released version 8.4 of the database of open source with advanced features. There are nearly 300 improvements to administration, programming and query language opening up new possibilities with this database.

Some improvements are:

* Restoring the database using parallel processes, accelerating the recovery of a back up to 8 times compared to the previous version.
* Column privileges, to control access to a greater level of detail.
* Language settings and management for database. To be able to select the most appropriate depending on the language that is required.
* Update 8.3 to 8.4 with minimal downtime
* New tools for monitoring consultations, delivering information to managers to know what is happening in the database.
* Implement advanced features of ANSI SQL: 2003 which allow complex queries into a single expression which previously required several.
* Improvements in stored procedures, for example using default parameters in the statement or list of arguments of variable length, the style C + + / Java.
Besides the new features, this new version includes improvements to the strong performance, particularly in complex operations.

While there are other databases of open source with a large base of users as MySQL, PostgreSQL orientation has always been to implement the features that make face to face with advanced databases such as Oracle. In this issue again The project has made it clear what distinguishes PostgreSQL jurisdiction in the world of open source.

Link: via PostgreSQL