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Canada Web Programmers is Canadian based company with offices in both Canada and USA with highly professional and experienced staff of 25. We serve to deliver cost effective interactive technology and design solutions without compromising on quality. Our main goal is to provide most cost effective global solutions for your success on WWW.



Our developing team is made up of multi-talented illustrators, designers, writers and software developers, delivering the right mix of creative finesse. Our team can create everything from single-page online brochures to interactive database applications for large companies or applications. About Services

Our goal is to keep our clients on the leading edge of information transfer technologies, adding significant value to their business in today's dynamic digital environment. We constantly adopt and broaden our range of services to meet the future needs of our customers. We are available to our clients for advising, training, and assistance on all their queries.

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Five Fundamentals of Ruby on Rails

Today’s applications developer aiming for the next scintillating Web 2.0 site is spoiled for choice. How well, you might wonder, does Ruby on Rails live up to its promise to simplify development tasks while crafting rich visitor experiences?

Part of the answer, I am assured by the intense and prolific young developers of HyTech Professionals (www.hytechpro.com) is to keep in mind some fundamentals of Ruby on Rails. These comprise:

1. That it is really is possible to produce the same functionality with distinctly fewer lines of code. This is due in large part to the fact that Matsumoto created Ruby back in 1995 as an object-oriented, dynamically defined, and easy-reading language. One does have to be creative with blocks that blend loops and arrays, however.

2. RoR architecture promotes clarity by, for one, segregating code across three sub-frameworks: Active Record, Action View, and Action Controller.

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Working Better with Ruby on Rails

In the last four years, we have seen how Ruby on Rails (RoR) built on, and accelerated the wider acceptance of, the object-oriented Ruby language. Consequently, the Ruby/RoR combo has become a workhorse of such independent software providers as Nashua (NH)-based HyTech Professionals (www.hytechpro.com). Though busy as the proverbial bee, the development teams there gave me a peek at apps they use to produce more than a hundred web-facing projects year after year.

As early as 2005, Ruby on Rails validated the language by making available an open-source framework for executing database-driven web applications. Its sparse architecture requirement, very lean code and easy access to support for PHP or Ajax, for example, made prototyping easy and quick.

Since then, the HyTech Professionals developers have nabbed one “killer app” after another to broaden the utility of Ruby on Rails. One of the first was the ActiveState Komodo integrated development environment that, beginning with version 3.5, provided edit, debug and testing support for the elegance of Ruby and Ruby on Rails code.

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Ruby on Rails Is Simplicity Itself. Or Not Quite?

The never-ending desire for riveting Web sites that “pull eyeballs”, lengthen stay and induce return visits has, since 2004, complicated the life of Web application engineers. Enriching a page with Flash, embedded video, visitor talkback, and self-serve communication channels means developer teams need varied expertise in Ajax, Web services and allied technological tools. Happily, Yukihiro Matsumoto authored the Ruby on Rails language and offered it up as a Web 2.0 framework option with the simple immediacy of PHP and the familiar architecture, clean code and robust quality of Java.

At a briefing I attended earlier this week, a Project Manager at HyTech Professionals out in Nashua (www.hytechpro.com) raved about the agile development they have managed for hundreds of clients with Ruby on Rails. At the core, he claimed, all a developer really need attend to is a Web server, a database engine and such sparse code it’s unbelievable. This independent software house found it could slash time to market with the speed and ease with which RoR could generate rich, database-driven Web 2.0 projects.

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Microsoft recently broke ground on a new research and development center in Beijing with an investment of US$280 million that will be its largest R&D center outside its United States headquarters, says a report in the Shanghai Daily.

The Microsoft China R&D Campus is scheduled to be completed in 2010 and will house thousands of researchers working on innovative technologies and creative products. "Through investments such as this, we are building on our capabilities as one of Microsoft's key global R&D centers and positioning the company to support the development of the local IT system," Zhang Yaqin, corporate vice president of Microsoft and chairman of Microsoft China, is quoted as saying.

The new facility will work on mobile and embedded technologies, Web technology products and services, digital entertainment, servers and tools and products for emerging markets.

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China's State Administration of Taxation recently released an important rule on the appraisal and classification of high-tech enterprises, which sets a new threshold for high-tech companies to enjoy China's preferential taxes, according to the China Tech News.

Companies appraised as high-tech companies will be issued a certificate which will be valid for three years. During this period, the company can enjoy a 15% preferential tax policy.

The new rule says that high-tech companies must be those that are engaged in at least one of the eight fields under the key support of the national government: electronic information technology; aviation and space technology; high-tech services; resource and environmental technology; biology and new medicine technology; new materials technology; new energy and energy-saving technology; and traditional industries that have undergone high-tech transformations and have their own core intellectual property rights.

Other details include:

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The Shanghai Daily recently reported that China's electronic and information sector grew at a slower pace in the first quarter, with growth in fixed-asset investment ebbing further and injection by overseas-funded businesses declining, according to a source at the ministry of industry and information.

During the first three months of the year, major manufacturers in the sector realized 1.06 trillion yuan (US$151 billion) in output value, a growth of 18.6% compared to the same period last year. By comparison, the sector's growth rate was 19.9% for all of last year.

The major electronic and information enterprises injected 50.79 billion yuan in fixed assets in the first three months, up 22.7 percent from the same period a year earlier. The growth rate was 17.3 percentage points lower than the January to March period of 2006 and 5.2 percentage points lower than the same period of 2007.

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The May 12 earthquake in China's western Sichuan Province has claimed more than 40,000 lives, but many economists expect the impact on overall growth to be limited, Businessweek reports. Many economists expect the natural disaster to have limited impact on the Chinese economy despite some power outages, communications breakdowns, and blocked roads in the mountainous region.

"In the short term, there will be a temporary disruption in industrial production, but it should recover very quickly," Mingchun Sun, a Hong Kong-based economist at Lehman Brothers. One reason, he says, is that the quake hit a rural area without a big manufacturing base. The province's industrial output only accounts for 3.9% of China's GDP, according to Merrill Lynch.

Sun notes that when a big earthquake hit Japan in 1995, it temporarily disrupted Japan's industrial output but the region quickly recovered in the coming months. "It's a big tragedy in terms of human life, but in terms of growth it's not a big deal," he was quoted as saying.

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COMMIT Incorporated, a Chinese TD-SCDMA chip manufacturer, has announced plans to stop business operations due to disrupted capital flow. To certain extend, this reflects the hard conditions facing China’s TD-SCDMA industry.

COMMIT was established in February, 2002, with the backing of 17 respected enterprises including China PUTIAN, DaTang Telecom Technology, Texas Instruments (China), Nokia (China) Investment and LG Electronics, Inc. It is one of the five major companies performing research and development in TD-SCDMA chips. Among the investing group, 9 are domestic companies and 8 are foreign, while 68.76% of the total capital is owned by the foreign firms with the remaining 31.24% held by the Chinese funds. Texas Instruments and Nokia accounted for 13.5% of the total capital respectively.

Insiders say that since last year, major stockholders have had conflicts over whether to continue investing in COMMIT. Nokia approved further investment, Texas Instruments refused, and China PUTIAN and DaTang failed to engage in time, so reinvesting in COMMIT has stopped.

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Personally I know the basics of html. Trust me if I knew any programming I would have my website up and going faster then need be.

Here is the drill this is my first time in anything that has to do with out side of HTML programming. After the eight programmers I had had take my deposit and run, vanish off the face of the internet, or quote me a price, then go 1-2 thousand over it with in the first three days.

Kinda makes a girl not want to trust anyone.

I have been working on a chat to my own designs, I am so picky on it it isn't even funny, I have spoken with programmers from china Russia India... even in the good ol' USA and have found little if anything to go on besides cleaning out my wallet.

So a chat that was priced at 2800, has now cost me 3,000 in deposits, mailing and canceling fees through other programmers. And the project still is not completed.

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Software is like an ocean,big,endless,and full of waves. Reversing is like surfing those waves.

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I enjoy playing games as much as the next person, but every game I've ever played had the same problem. I don't want to give away the details, but I could use some help. Eventually, I want to work with 3D, but 2D would be fine for now. To those that read this, I need the following:

a Polygon class { public: void Build() // load array of vectors void Draw() // draw to screen bool Collision( Polygon & ) // have to Polygons collided? private: some type of array system for the vectors used // I have no idea };

The more universal the better

I can program, but I'm not an expert. I don't even know the going rate is for selling functions and classes. All I know is I'm tired of working by myself.

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RSA had a factoring challege set up for people to find two values, in this case both are primes which are not known, and a given value that is the product of these two primes. While writing a C++ calculator program to help find the two values, I stumbled across in interesting pattern. I was able to derive a couple of formulas that were really cool, but after all this work the formulas are getting harder to deal with. I'm tired of working by myself on this. Is anyone willing to participate?

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Writing automated tests is a tried and tested way to improve the quality of software. In the initial phase of development, tests help to verify that the code functions correctly. In Test Driven Development, tests are written before the code, so any knowledge about the ins and outs of the implementation won't influence the writing of the tests. After the initial development, as changes are made over time, a comprehensive test suite can quickly point out unintended changes in the behavior of the code, so the bugs can be fixed before the software is shipped. Importantly, the tests are automated, so they are very cheap to run in terms of time.

What do we want from a test suite?

There are a range of properties that are good to have in a test suite.

• It often allows bugs to be pinpointed to a relatively small area of the code base, saving debugging time.

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We have a new video for you!

Our games are being developed using the Torque Game Engine Advanced by an entirely volunteer team. Our development efforts are collaborated over the internet using modern development tools, such as SVN, IRC, wiki and Overlord for project management. We are working on two games, Visions and Chariots. Visions is our flagship project, a Christian MMORPG set in the 2nd century holy land. Chariots is a racing game, one tiny aspect of the much larger Visions game, loosely set in ancient history. Chariots is being developed and released seperately as a unique game.

Come see what we're working on in the Chariots racing game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYW76n_PeAA

Chariots is expected to be out later this year. We're still seeking volunteers if you want to help us reach our deadlines! Please apply online! http://www.visionsgame.com/HBTZ_Application.htm

God bless you! -Sparkling

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Improve VFP data retrieval with WCF

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) enables us to create distributed architecture and use Visual FoxPro (VFP) as a client/server system executing the operation on the server (backend). With the WCF client we can download the data from the server in asynchronous (non blocking) mode. The measurement in this article show us this can be done much faster then downloading the data with VFP functions or oledb data adapters. With WCF, we can take advantage of parallel (asynchronous) operation and distribute the processing of data between the client and the server. The retrieved data can be presented in VFP or Net (Windows) controls. In the download of this article is the code of four projects: WCF service, WCF client, COM object and VFP client. We present the code and the measurement of retrieving the data from the server in the form of a data table, a dataset, a strong typed collection and the dbf file. The fastest is the retrieve and transport of the dbf file binded to the VFP grid, on the second place (24%slower) is the strong typed Net collection binded to the Net grid, the laziest (30% slower) is the Net data table binded to the windows Net grid. Except for very small record set, there is a big time gap (almost 100%) between the direct VFP data retrive over the local network and using the WCF service.

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Insight

Everybody’s doing it. Industry leaders like General Electric and Microsoft — as well as the start up companies that are looking forward to challenging them — are outsourcing offshore. After all, every company’s goal is a lean, agile research and development department that brings innovative products to market rapidly and profitably. As a business plan, outsourcing enables companies to leverage lower labor costs, including wages and health care, and focus on core competencies. Nevertheless, a “they’re doing it so I will, too” decision to outsource is not a good enough reason. Outsourcing can be a powerful, profitable strategy. However, one of the challenges of outsourcing is identifying when outsourcing embedded product research and development projects will deliver the greatest return on your investment.

Long Circle recommends that you heed these tell-tale signs that let you know: It’s time to put outsourcing to work for your company.

Too many projects stuck in the pipeline?

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Intellectual property security breaches are making headline news with alarming frequency and creating headaches for consumers, businesses, governments and institutions everywhere. The specter of identity and intellectual property theft hangs over everyone’s head, brought home by incidents like the following:

► Two 200-MB files containing incomplete portions of the source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT operating systems were stolen and posted to the Internet. An individual downloaded the code and offered it for sale. An undercover FBI agent bought the code and the seller was indicted under the U.S. Economic Espionage Act. 1 ► The over $20 billion video game industry shook when news came out about the hacking of the computer network and Internet-leaking of the source code at Valve Software, the maker of the mega-popular Half-Life 2, a first-person shooter (FPS) video game. The financial ramifications of source code already licensed to developers, but now available for free on black-market sites, is something no executive wants to encounter. 2

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The reality of business is that companies must do more with less to stay competitive and continually search out new ways to improve products and time-to-market to lead their markets. Top companies have long found it makes good business sense to outsource a business function — from making parts to delivering payroll — to wherever it can be done the best. With the Telecommunications Act of 1996 came the wave of fiber-optic cable and a new capability that truly enabled the IT departments of U.S. companies to plug into offshore outsourcing firms and take advantage of lower wages and cost efficiencies.

Many of these same companies have R&D departments developing embedded software and hardware and now the CTOs want to leverage offshore vendors to not only reap the same benefits of lower wages and expanded productivity, but bring better products to market sooner. Although the potential benefits are there, companies must consider two things before offshoring embedded R&D technology. First, the requirements of an R&D department that does embedded technology development for the marketplace and those of an IT department that serves employees are not the same. Second, a country’s human capital may be good quality for IT projects, but may not be the best choice to meet the higher skill levels required for R&D embedded technology.

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Trade exchange between different cultures and countries has long yielded rich rewards for those who recognize the potential.

After all, as far back as the 1st century BC, merchants and caravans followed the Silk Road – the overland trade route from northern China to the Western World – and brought precious silks, tea and other resources from China to the rest of the world. Not only did linking different countries and cultures prove profitable, but new and greater products and ideas flowed between the countries.

The Silk Road of the 21st century is technology driven. This trade exchange, built on fiber-optic cable, sprang from the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Now, it is the R&D departments of companies from the United States and other countries that benefit from the resources and opportunity found in China.

Today’s China, the fastest growing country in the world, offers the: • Biggest engineering talent pool • Biggest emerging market • World’s number one manufacturing industry

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