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Sync Google Calendar with Outlook 2003

Steps

1) Download RemoteCalendars and unzip the files.

2) Install RemoteCalendar

• Close Outlook
• Install NET Framework 2.0 unless you already have it.
• In the Prerequisites folder of your RemoteCalendar install, unpack the O2003PIA.EXE files and install O2003PIA.MSI.
• Install vstor.exe, also in the Prerequisites folder
• Install RemoteCalendarsVSTOSetup.msi from the main RemoteCalendar folder.
  3) Launch Outlook - You should now have a toolbar in Outlook that looks like this:
  

  4) Click the Options button on the toolbar to bring up the menu options. Set the timezone to your timezone so that all items stay in sync. Optionally check the Automatic Update box.

  

  5) Click the Subscribe a RemoteCalendar button to add your Google Calendar to Outlook.

  6) Copy the iCal URL for your calendar’s Private Address on the Calendar Settings page.
  

  7) Put the iCal URL in the Remote Calendar’s URL box, add the calendar name and check the box next to it’s my Google Calendar and I want to sync both ways
  

  Input the username and password for your Google Calendar when prompted.
  

  Items added to your Google Calendar will now automatically appear in your Outlook calendar and sync with your phone based on your sync preferences.

Google Analytics Desktop Application

Source

The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics. See the feature list for more info.

There’s a demo account included if you just want to check out the app, but I obviously prefer you use your own Analytics account to give it a test run. That’s what beta’s are for

Requirements

You’ll need Adobe Air installed on your machine to run this application.

Webdriver and other tools

Here’s a good into to some testing tools for nextgen web apps using ajax, javascript, etc.

Source

The web testing puzzle is a jigsaw with 3 pieces, and for a long time the 3rd piece has been hiding down the side of the sofa, but I think Simon Stewart just found it. He’s called it WebDriver - it needs dusting off, but it’s looking like it’s going to be the right fit.

The problem with testing websites is that it has always been messy. It’s bound to be hard coordinating 3 tasks (browser, server, set of tests) across at least 2 processes on different hardware setups, and maybe even different platform architectures.

The set-of-tests piece of the puzzle is well understood; JUnit, TestNG, blah blah.

The well behaved server piece is solved for Java by Jetty - you can fire up an embedded server as easy as new Server(); (example).

Now we can make browsers be as well behaved - we can remote control web browsers from within a Java program. WebDriver currently supports Internet Explorer, Firefox and HtmlUnit for totally embedded work.

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x-eye usb camera drivers

this was really hard to find (>10minutes in google).

Searched first for “x-eye” as it was the only writing on the camera.

Dead ends.

A forum post mentions looking at the device id when it is plugged in.

It was usb\vid_093a&pid_2468 and registered as an unknown device named “CIF Single Chip”.

Searching again revealed in another forum post drivers are actually made by ORITE.

Here are the x-eye usb camera driver files (drivers).

Jad Command Line Options

This is README file for Jad - the fast Java Decompiler.
Jad home page
Copyright 2001 Pavel Kouznetsov (jad@kpdus.com).

0. Please read the disclaimer on the Jad home page.

1. Installation.

Unzip jad.zip file into any appropriate directory on your hard drive.
This will create two files:

- an executable file named ‘jad.exe’ (Windows *)
or ‘jad’ (*n*x)

- this README file

No other setup is required.
Read More …

Regular Expression to Strip FONT

Regular expression to match style=”everything in here”

style=\"([0-9A-Za-z:\\;\\(\\)%\\-\\.s,\\/]+)\"

Here is the regular expression to strip the font and its contents.

<font[ a-z0-9="#]*>

And here is code to strip SPAN

<span[ a-z0-9="#:-]*>

Processing Files

Website Portfolio

Good markup is search engine-friendly

From xhtml.com

Only content free from formatting can be easily repurposed

The use of font element or inline CSS fuses content and formatting together. By turning off the CSS on your Web site, you can see if your content is free from formatting and if it can be easily repurposed in a different page layout, should you want to redesign your Web site in the future.

Content is king

Are visitors attracted to your Web because of its quality content or because of its pretty layout? By turning off the CSS on your Web site, you have the opportunity to see what you are really offering your visitors - quality content!

Search engine-friendly markup

Search engines are blind - they don’t see the pretty formatting on your site. By turning off the CSS on your Web site, you have the opportunity to see your Web site in a similar way to how search engines see it. Making sure your Web site works well with CSS turned off will make it easier for search engines to process your Web pages and will lead to a better search ranking.

Installing and Deploying JOALMixer

Installing JOALMixer

To use the JOALMixer with a webstart application simply add the following line to your jnlp file:

<extension href="http://download.java.net/media/java3d/webstart/release/java3d-1.5.1-joal.jnlp"/>

This installs OpenAL, JOAL and the JOALMixer together with Java3D 1.5.1 which is everything needed to use the JOALMixer.

To use the JOALMixer with a desktop application you need to install OpenAL and JOAL (or bundle the jars and native libraries with your application), then put the JOALMixer.jar in the classpath of your application.

Launching Desktop App

To launch a desktop application using the mixer, use:

java -Dj3d.audiodevice="org.jdesktop.j3d.audioengines.joal.JOALMixer" yourApplication

and in your code use viewer.createAudioDevice();

OR

Initialize the JOALMixer directly in your code with:

PhysicalEnvironment pe = new PhysicalEnvironment();
JOALMixer joalMixer = new JOALMixer(pe);
joalMixer.initialize();
pe.setAudioDevice(joalMixer);
viewer.getView().setPhysicalEnvironment(pe);

Source

CSS Basic Box Model

CSS basic box model

CSS basic box model
W3C Working Draft 9 August 2007

This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-box-20070809

OpenAL SDK

OpenAL 1.1 Installer for Windows
Updated on 7/12/2007

The OpenAL Installer for Windows will install the OpenAL 1.1 libraries, enabling support for core OpenAL operations as well as extensions such as EAX and EFX. The installer supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

Services

Hourly Rate

My Hourly rate is $75. Hours of work are may purchased one at a time when needed or in bulk. Hours may be used for any services and at any time services are needed.

Discounts are given for blocks of hours bought in advance. Savings increase with the number of hours purchased as described in the chart below. The hours may be used whenever you need.

Typical Services

Below are examples of services I offer for systems engineering.

Site Maintenance

Benefit

Increase Visitor Conversion - Visitor conversion is when a simple visit is “converted” into a lead. A visitor becomes a sales lead by entering information, requesting information, signing up for a newsletter. 

Site maintenance consists of various elements.  Tools are used such as Google analytics and other statistical tracking software to understand how users use the website.  Tracking the website routinely I can perform services in the following disciplines.

1. Site Performance - Tracking and Analysis - Routinely study the traffic of the site.
   • Search engine indexing rate
   • Search engine result quality
   • Search engine result ranking
2. Site Quality - Adjust site such that it performs better, is upgraded with the most current software and has very low defects.
3. Site Usability - Adjust site for optimal user experience

Site Improvements

Benefit

Editor can easily update and add content to the website.

The velocity of change and technology advancement means your site can always be improved. Fresh site content causes search engines to visit the site more frequently. Unfortunately a technology barrier exists which prohibits average users from entering content into their websites. I can help remove the barrier by …

• Improving the website software until author can use it without technical assistance.
• Site content advice and consulting and training.

Technical Support and Computer Traing

Benefit

Increase user efficiency with technology. Systems maintained and fixed when needed.

Remote access to the desktop is done in order to assist more quickly. Phone support is also an option.

Summary

If something isn’t on this list, most likely if its relating to computers I can help.