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Issue 77 2002-10-29
In this issue:
1. What's new at Programmer's Heaven
2. Survey
3. Programmers News
4. New articles added!
5. New links Added!
6. New files added!
7. Latest posts to the F.A.Q
8. Latest messageboards
9. Latest posts in the messageboard
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11. Link to Programmer's Heaven
12. We want your feedback
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The result of the last week's survey:
For what purpose do you program??
(625 votes).
School/education 18%
Work related 25%
Personal interest 21%
All of them 33%
I don't program 3%
This weeks question:
"Have you started to use WEB-Services in your projects?"
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Latest developer news stories
Torvalds: Next Linux due by June
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- http://www.programmersheaven.com/news.asp?NewsID=2109
product announcement: Revolution 2.0 to ship in November
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- http://www.programmersheaven.com/news.asp?NewsID=2108
Heterogeneous data in Excel column. How to convert to XML?
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- http://www.programmersheaven.com/news.asp?NewsID=2107
Defect Tracking Web Services SDK Released!
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- http://www.programmersheaven.com/news.asp?NewsID=2106
Softboro: roadmap for product upload
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- http://www.programmersheaven.com/news.asp?NewsID=2105
now software developers can correct compilation bugs with ease.
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Clean Up Your SourceSafe Database
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ZDNet UK: Real Prepares to Unwind Source Code
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Microsoft to open .Net testing centers in LatAm
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Here is a list of some of the latest articles that have been added
to the site:
- The Coming Era Of The Tablet PC?
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- The personal computer has shrunk again, bringing with it increased
- mobility and a new style of working, opening up new possibilities
- and opportunities. But just how good are these new generation notebooks,
- will they take off and what will they mean to you?
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=7273
- Advanced Test in C: The 0x10 Best Questions for C Programmers
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- In this test I have attempted to make a C test, that test knowledge
- of Volatile Qualifier, type cast , array , pointers, recursion, static
- variable, variable argument, pointer to function. All of these require
- well understanding of C programming. The test helps to understand
- the concept of C programming in a more informative way.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=7269
- Writing win32 asm programs using TASM
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- A short introduction in win32 asm coding with TASM. Written for those
- who know already how to code assembler and have already coded DOS
- programs.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=7272
- Trapping HTTP 500.100 ASP errors in your pages
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- Learn how to replace the infamous "Page cannot be displayed" with
- profuse apologies and an email moaning to the webmaster...
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=1200
- Transforming Microsoft Access XML Files into HTML with XSLT
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- This article explains what XSLT is and how it can be used to transform
- XML data from one format to another.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=3301
- Transforming e-business: E-services
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- An article on building e-services using HP's e-speak development framework.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=2622
- Transforming ADO Recordsets to XML with XSLT
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- ADO gets the data, XML packages the data, and XSLT formats the data.
- This article will show you how to do it in the cleanest and most efficient
- way.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=2218
- Transactions in ASP.NET
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- This article shows how to process a transaction within ASP.Net web
- forms in this example. A transaction symbolizes code or a set of components
- or procedures which must be executed as a unit.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=4456
- Training & Software Development
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- Study the relationship between process quality and the amount of development
- and project management training
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=6983
- Tracking Web Page Visitors with XML
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- This article creates a simple stats tracking program to demonstrate
- how to deal with records using XML, instead of ADO Object.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=2480
- Tracking Users, Page Views by the Day Example
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- Tracking Users, Page Views by the Day Example
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=5601
- Tracking Page Visits Made Easy
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- This set of articles teaches how to build a simple pageview tracking
- system.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=4943
- Tracking Down Event Clues
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- SQL Server 2000 divides its tracing functionality into two separate
- but connected components: SQL Trace on the server and SQL Profiler
- on the client. Learn how and when to use server-side traces.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=6121
- Track class file versions
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- Sometimes even the most carefully controlled environments can get
- corrupted. With jar files being pushed prematurely and source files
- being updated constantly, determining which version of the compiled
- source file was pushed to the now-corrupt environment can be difficult.
- Source control labels are intended to mitigate the confusion, but
- for absolute certainty, it's best to get the information straight
- from the horse's mouth -- the jar file itself. Two proposed solutions
- highlight some of the more interesting features of the Java API, namely
- reflection, doclets, and runtime jar file support from within the
- JVM.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=3439
- Tracing Performance
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- You can monitor your SQL Server system's performance in many ways.
- Here are six helpful system stored procedures and a function that
- you can use to monitor your SQL Server system and trace your applications'
- performance.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/art.asp?ArtID=6183
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Here's a list of some of the latest files and products added to the
Programmer's Heaven file listings.
- TextDB 5.0
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- TextDB is a high performance search engine with plenty of
- features to cover all your needs Implement full-text search in
- your applications by using TextDB's easy-to-use ActiveX
- components in Visual Basic, ASP or any other ActiveX container
- Build scalable high performance search engines with TextDB
- Server or lightweight Internet and desktop applications with
- TextDB Stand-Alone version TextDB prices start from US$59 for a
- standard license
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24016
- VLMenuPlus 3.1
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- Add stunning looks to your VB application menus. Customize menu
- colors, highlight styles (includes XP style), highlight
- appearance, menu border style. Add menu item bitmaps, menu
- background bitmaps, show menu tool tips, control tool tip
- timings. Unsurpassed ease-of-use, drop-in menu enhancer for VB
- apps.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24015
- VBDXtut v0.9
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- This is a tutorial on VB + DirectX. The tutorial is for beginners and
- uses a wrapper library. It does not cover DirectX, only game theroy.
- It goes through step by step to create a complete arcade type game.
- Requires VB6 and DirectX 7 for VB type library.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24014
- JGL - Java Generic Libraries 4.0
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- JGL?, is a powerful add-on for the JDK that augments the Java
- Collections API with several additional collections and more
- than 50 generic algorithms. JGL works seamlessly with the Java
- Collections API, leveraging the developer's existing knowledge
- while providing access to a more advanced set of tools. All
- algorithms have been carefully designed so you can use them on
- standard Java Collection and List objects, Java native arrays
- of primitives and objects, and JGL collections.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24012
- Voyager Ditributed Application Development Platform 4.5
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- Voyager? 4.5 provides you with the tools necessary to quickly
- construct mission-critical, secure, robust and scalable
- distributed applications and systems ... at a reasonable price.
- Voyager comes with JNDI integration, persistent replicated
- directory, connection management, integration of SOAP, CORBA,
- and COM, support for ultra-light (15KB) clients and more ...
- all at a price that is a third less than similar technologies.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24011
- C# Rapid Dev Kit 1.0
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- C# Rapid DevKit extends the features found in the .NET
- Framework and is ideal for enterprise developers. This powerful
- add-on for .NET instantly arms programmers with a series of
- advanced collections and more than 50 generic algorithms.
- Highly optimized data structures are engineered for ease of
- use, and their performance beats every commercially available
- C# container library on the market. C# Rapid DevKit containers
- also work in multithreaded situations.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24010
- C++ ToolKits v2.2
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- C++ToolKits 2.2, is packed with new components and a long list
- of feature enhancements. Version 2.2 includes more conformance
- to the STL standard; enhanced features supporting multithreaded
- distributed applications; support for new platforms and
- compilers including AIX 4.3.3 with Visual Age 5.0, HP UX 11i
- with aCC 03.31, Linux 2.2/2.4 with g++ 3.x, Solaris 8 with Sun
- Compiler 5.3, Windows with Visual C++ .NET, g++ on AIX, HP-UX,
- Linux, Solaris and Tru64. In addition, you get FREE source code
- and in most cases pay no deployment fees.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24009
- Programmer's Wizard 2.0
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- It is a free but very powerful tool for programmers. It is
- hexadecimal and text editor, you can write your own functions.
- Text editor supports about 40 programming languages. It can
- export source code as HTML or RTF file. Program behaviour is
- highly customizable trough scripts or user DLL's. It supports
- Pascal scripting language.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24008
- CamStudio 1.6
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- CamStudio records screen activity from your Windows Desktop
- into standard AVI movie files for use in software
- demonstrations and active presentations. This updated version
- allows you to record audio from your speakers and supports the
- capture of transparent/layered windows.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24007
- Knight OPC Client Rapid Development Toolkits 2.0
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- KOCRDK is a set of Rapid Development Toolkits for implement the
- industry standard process control ( OPC -- OLE for Process
- Control ) , with support for the Data Access 1.0/2.0 standard.
- KOCRDK implements the advanced programming concepts of the most
- current version of the OPC specification for use in developing
- next generation industrial software applications. This toolkit
- packages all the essential OPC client functionality into a
- single DLL.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24006
- Knight OPC Server Rapid Development Toolkits 1.8
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- KOSRDK is a set of Rapid Development Toolkits for implement the
- industry standard process control ( OPC -- OLE for Process
- Control ) , with support for the Data Access 1.0/2.0 standard.
- KOSRDK implements the advanced programming concepts of the most
- current version of the OPC specification for use in developing
- next generation industrial software applications. This toolkit
- packages all the essential OPC server functionality into a
- single DLL.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24005
- WDiff 1.50
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- Side by side display of two text files, directories or ZIP
- archives. Useful to see the differences between two text files
- or two sets of files, where one or both sets can reside in a
- ZIP archive. Line editing functions available.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=24004
- Extended Int Demo 1
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- This should help show you how to use extended precision
- integers. The unit ExtendedInt contains all you need, to use a
- dynamic array like an integer. It also has fibinocci and
- factorial functions that use these huge integers.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=23994
- Big Faceless Report Generator v1.1.1
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- The Big Faceless Report Generator is a Java component for
- creating PDF reports from XML. The Extended Edition includes a
- PDF reader for importing & editing functionality. Using JSP,
- ASP, XSL or similar, creating dynamic PDF documents direct from
- a database is now as easy as HTML. Features include Digital
- Signature, Tiff and Unicode support, spot & calibrated color,
- CSS2 stylesheets, tables, HTML style syntax, hyperlinks, Graphs
- & Charts, TrueType & Type1 fonts, encryption/password
- protection, OCR support & Barcodes. It requires JDK 1.2. A
- fully functional demo stamped version is available on site for
- free testing and development. Changelog 1.1.1 Major additions
- include CSS2 float positioning and Form Fields and JavaScript.
- It's a bug step towards full CSS2 compliance, and also includes
- improvements for Tomcat users and those using HTTPS.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=23993
- Big Faceless PDF Library v1.2.2
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- The Big Faceless PDF Library is a Java class library for
- creating PDF documents. The Extended Edition now offers the
- functionality to create and edit AcroForms - PDF's answer to
- the HTML form. Like HTML, PDF forms can contain text-boxes,
- radio buttons and can call JavaScript functions. Full support
- for these features has been lacking for Java developers - until
- now. The Extended Edition also includes a PDF reader for
- importing & editing along with FDF support and verification for
- Digital Signatures. Both variations offer Full Unicode support,
- encryption, embedded TrueType and Type1 fonts, barcodes,
- hyperlinks, spot and calibrated color. 1.2 advanced text layout
- engine enables complex html style i.e.mix images and text
- within one paragraph. Small, fast and easy to use. This library
- is 100% pure java. It requires JDK 1.2. A fully functional demo
- stamped version is available on site for free testing and
- development.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=23992
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Last news!, Posted by lionb
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Senior Web Developer Wanted, Posted by ibbz
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=22&MsgID=149102
why in window....., Posted by gopoo
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=43&MsgID=149099
de-compiling C code, Posted by sueh
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=3&MsgID=149055
Open it up a take a look., Posted by Hadji_13
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=14&MsgID=149052
How to create control at runtime on form???, Posted by lee_s
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=14&MsgID=149047
Need help!! with number inputs & no letters...., Posted by Berre
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For all RTFtoHTML(XML) converters out here..., Posted by nimnul2
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Table lookup from K&R, Posted by p_v
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=3&MsgID=149034
collision : a box and a ball, Posted by suananda
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http://www.programmersheaven.com/read.asp?Board=8&MsgID=149007
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