http://www.tempestnetworks.com Complete Computer Services for the Mission Valley Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:00:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many of us know about the neat trick you can do with the common blue/purple colors (without styling) of links, depending on which have been visited or not by the user. Obviously a UX plus to know what you've already seen, but we eventually realized this information could be exploited ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/77/calvin-spealman-using-exploits-to-improve-user-experience-a-test-case/ pA few months ago I#8217;ve written a class=reference external href=http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/10/21/are-pointers-and-arrays-equivalent-in-c/an article/a about the (lack of) equivalence between pointers and arrays in C./p pHere I want to tell about a related gotcha of the C language: passing 2D arrays around./p pFirst of all, here#8217;s a code snippet that defines a function tt class=docutils ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/76/eli-bendersky-pointers-vs-arrays-in-c-part-2d/ pbNEW ZEALAND PYTHON USER GROUP/b/p pbMedia Statement/b/p pbApril 6, 2010/b/p pbIMMEDIATE RELEASE/b/p pCurrently a number of different content management systems are being used across government with most departments working independent of each other./p pTherefore all government departments are invited to a seminar to showcase how the enterprise content management system, Plone, is being used in ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/75/tim-knapp-pushing-for-consistency-in-ict-across-government/ a href=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470548592?ie=UTF8tag=voidspace-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=390957creativeASIN=0470548592Professional IronPython/a is a new book on IronPython, published by Wrox and written by a href=http://www.amazon.com/John-Mueller/e/B000AQ77KK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0John Meuller/anbsp;(who has apparently written 73 books).br / br / br / blockquoteCreate applications that are more responsive to user needs/blockquotebr / div class=productDescriptionWrapper blockquoteIronPython should be an important part of your developer's toolbox ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/74/ironpython-urls-professional-ironpython/ pThat#8217;s right! Open Source BBQ this Friday 4/9/2010 in Oakland, CA in my backyard at 4pm until it gets dark./p pThere will be meat, and stuff that#8217;s not meat, and beer. Contributions welcome, it#8217;s open source after all./p pEveryone that writes code is welcome. Please RSVP at a href=http://www.mobaganda.com/opensourcebbqhttp://www.mobaganda.com/opensourcebbq/a./p pI live walking distance ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/73/mikeal-rogers-open-source-bbq-this-friday-492010/ Ctrl+c, as well as a single handed touchpad move is considered harmful.br /br /Try and do combinations of keys, mouse moves, and gestures one finger at a time.br /br /Why? RSI. RSI hurts people.br /br /Please consider people when designing your user interfaces. Either avoid single handed ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/72/rene-dudfield-ux-rsi-ctrlc-considered-harmful-if-not-done-properly/ pI had this discussion with a friend, helping him with a personal project. It was a software to help with a weekly schedule, so it has some teachers, each ones with a profile, some alumns, each one with a profile, and classes, relating the teachers with the alumns with time ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/68/jaime-buelta-people-really-love-rdbmss/ Before we begin with programming languages we must talk about our spoken languages (ie: English, French, etc.). Any language is a set of keywords or symbols (words) that mean something understandable by the people who speak the language. For example the following sentence: I need a cup of Tea. When I ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/67/basics-about-programming-languages-4/ Adware is any software application software which makes banners come into sight the whole time it is run. Also, the adware program can install parts that will carry information about the user and its behavior and this work on his PC. Spyware programs are different. The user is asked when ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/66/adware-and-spyware-in-software-4/ I maintain/manage some Websites that are developed by outsiders.  Some of them are stuck (for one reason or another) using older tools and software packages ... namely Microsoft FrontPage.  In one of the websites, in particular, the previous method of showing a larger/zoomed-in version of an image was to open ... http://www.tempestnetworks.com/65/quick-and-easy-image-zoom-using-jquery-4/