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Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system, and it’s FREE.

Org-mode is an add-on for the popular free EMACS editor (programmers editor) and adds a full outline and todo list. All the files are stored in standard txt (ASCII) format so can be edited by any software if required. If you have a dropbox account you can store your outlines on your dropbox account and edit them using any editor or use the EMACS add-on to see the proper outlining.

The author suggests that this wonderful outline tool can be used for GTD, planning, notebooks and web/pdf authoring. There is also extensive documentation. There are some good tutorials covering introduction and power users guides with a useful screencast overview (25 minutes).

The beauty of this product is that it is very extensible and can be adapted by power users to do just about anything that requires outlining and maintaining lists. The files can be published to HTML and XHTML plus other formats such as LaTeX and Gantt Charts for project management integration. There’s a very interesting tech talk from GOOGLE that discusses Org-mode (46 minutes) and well worth listening to.

Leo Laporte’s Podcast network has recently published a podcast that discusses and talks to the author (Carsten Dominik) about org-mode – well worth a listen (as are all the FLOSS podcasts)

• 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery | Encosia
  Five quick tips that I found valuable while learning jQuery in depth. I learned them the hard way so you don’t have to! Really good post outlining using jquery with:

1. Using Firebug to experiment interactively
2. Caching selector results
3. Explains about the best times to use jQuery (e.g. NOT all the time!)
4. Advanced selectors, filters and traversals

• Share button and Subscribe button generator – AddToAny – FREE

  Help your visitors share & bookmark your pages and subscribe to your feeds using any service. System to interactively create a bookmarking widget that allows your users to subscribe to all the popular social networking systems. Easy to use and can generate in multiple languages.

  Addtoany has a comprehensive API that allows you to get and set key parameters. The API page has plenty of good examples of how to use. The button can be small and unobtrusive. This system can be used with Feedburner, and the service is absolutely FREE

  (tags: tools web2.0 social bookmark bookmarking button wordpress socialnetworking)

OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time & Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS, Human Capital Management

OrangeHRM is a Human Resource Management (HRM) system that facilitates personnel information management, employee self service, leave, time & attendance, benefits, and recruitment of a company. It’s is the most active open source human resource management software. With over 175,000 downloads, OrangeHRM is also fast becoming one of the most widely used HRM applications in the world. We believe in providing users simple to use robust software, and iteratively improving it based on feedback we get from them. This rapid evolving of the product is driven by agile development practices, and weekly product releases to SourceForge

Notepad++

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendlyness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

Hosted Apps – sitedocs

Introducing: Hosted Apps at SourceForge.net ¶Over the years, SourceForge.net staff and users have identified a number of well-written Open Source applications which are useful to developers for personal use and critical to meeting the needs of Open Source software development projects. Through the Hosted Apps service, SourceForge.net provides hosted instances of these applications, allowing projects and developers to easily gain access to these tools, without incurring the overhead of handling the software installation, day-to-day maintenance and version upgrades.

• Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, by Jesse James Garrett. The original article which coined the term.
• Why Ajax Matters Now by Jesse James Garrett.
• Ajax gives software a fresh look Blurring the line between desktop and Web applications.
• Weighing the Alternatives How Ajax stacks up against competing RIA approaches.
• JavaScript refactoring for safer, faster, better Ajax.
• Sessioning with XMLHttpRequest Using HTML and JavaScript to connect the presentation layer directly to XML data.

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Tutorials

• AJAX:Getting Started by Mozilla Developer Center.
• Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHTTPRequest Object by Apple.
• Cross-browser Ajax Tutorial using the Sarissa library.
• ASP.NET Spiced: AJAX from MSDN.
• Ajax Programming in BEA WebLogic Portal by O’Reilly Media.
• Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax.
• Mastering Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax.
• Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in Ajax.

It was formulated by Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries. Kent Beck wrote the first book on the topic, Extreme programming explained: Embrace change, published in 1999. The second edition of the book, which appeared in 2005, delves more into the philosophy of eXtreme Programming and describes it as being:

• a mechanism for social change
• a style of development
• a path to improvement
• an attempt to reconcile humanity and productivity
• a software development discipline

Donn Edwards offers a utility called AccessOpener, which avoids those annoying messages when opening a database that is in a different Access format than the version of Access you are running. The utility works with Access 97, 2000 and XP/2002, and it can be downloaded from here.

This article from PerfectXML is a good allrounder that includes stuff on standard asp programming – easy to follow and very logical. I’m particulary interested in simple bits of code and interfaces (perhaps Google or eBay) that I can test using Access 2000 and VBA. I understand that it’s possible without over complicating everything. The recent Access user group meeting (May 2005, UK) was very interesting. Peter Vogel (editor of Smart Access, Pinnacle publication) gave a brilliant presentation of Microsoft Access using SOAP, etc. to access Web Services; so it must be possible.

Anyway below are some links to web sites (mostly Microsoft) that give you all the key downloads. You’ll have to provide the reading and sweat to make it work. I’m fascinated by the whole concept, so will be doing some testing over the next few weeks and keeping them posted on here.

PerfectXML.com :: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): “Chapter 7 Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

The Simple Object Access Protocol is a standard that has provided a simple solution to a complex problem. The problem is that integrating systems is difficult. That’s not really news, but it is a fact that many I.T. professionals are well aware of. The main area of incompatibility arises because information and objects are distributed all over the place.

The SOAP standard provides a set of tags and an environment that allows systems to request information from other systems by sending self-describing messages over any network.

SOAP is really just an envelope, but its simplicity means that it is easy to use and very flexible. In this chapter, you will learn about this most important standard for web services.”

Download details: SOAP Toolkit 3.0: “SOAP Toolkit 3.0
The Microsoft SOAP Toolkit is deprecated by the .NET Framework. SOAP Toolkit support will be retired in April 2005.”

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C943C0DD-CEEC-4088-9753-86F052EC8450&displaylang=en

XML and Web Services for Microsoft Developers – Part 1: “XML and Web Services for Microsoft Developers – Part 1
By Darshan Singh
November 29th
2002
Reader Rating: 9.2
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 4.0 was the first Web browser to support XML. Since then XML support has been introduced in various Microsoft products, such as Office XP and SQL Server 2000. Microsoft re-assured its commitment by including extensive support for XML in the .NET framework.”

Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/microsoft-developers-1

Web Services Developer Center: SOAP Toolkit: “SOAP Toolkit
The Microsoft SOAP Toolkit is deprecated by the .NET Framework. The toolkit provides basic Web services capabilities for COM components and applications. Support for the SOAP Toolkit has been extended from the originally posted July 1, 2004 deadline. Mainstream SOAP Toolkit support will now be retired in March 31, 2005 with Extended Support lasting until March 31, 2008. SOAP Toolkit Version 3.0 Provides additional features over earlier versions of the toolkit including the ability to send and receive attachments, WSDL and XMLSchema ‘import’ and ‘include’ elements support, ‘One way’ message support, and more.”

Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/soaptk/

Download details: MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (Microsoft XML Core Services): “MSXML 4.0
Service Pack 2 (Microsoft XML Core Services) MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
is a complete replacement of MSXML 4.0 and MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). MSXML
4.0 SP2 provides a number of security and bug fixes. MSXML 4.0 SP2 does not replace MSXML 3.0.”

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3144b72b-b4f2-46da-b4b6-c5d7485f2b42&displaylang=en