FileMaker is a popular and powerful desktop database application toolkit. Recently, FileMaker, Inc. released a beta version of the FileMaker API for PHP, which allows PHP to more easily talk to the FileMaker Server Advanced product. Learn how to leverage FileMaker’s strengths to deliver complex Web applications in a fraction of the time it would take using a typical SQL database.
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Google Apps for Education: ePortfolio and Formative Assessment Workflow
Schools and universities can set up free Google Apps accounts with their own domain name, where they can give all student and faculty acces to a variety of tools, including a GMail account, iGoogle portal, Google Groups for collaboration, and Pages, for creating websites. Each user can also use their GMail account to activate other Google services, such as GoogleDocs. Students and teachers have email accounts, with more than 2 GB of storage per account. Gmail is the web-based or POP-mail account that is also the common ID for other Google applications.
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Web 2.0 has captured the imagination of consumers and businesses alike. But knowing how to leverage Web 2.0 concepts to fuel collaboration and innovation among employees, partners, and customers is another story. Web 2.0 can change an enterprise but recognizing how, and determining whether one should, is confusing. This paper aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding Web 2.0 and discusses its practical applications and its impact on online users by demonstrating HE goal oriented eLearning based on service oriented architecture (SOA).
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“Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. As researchers, we instinctively reach for our spreadsheets to see if there is evidence to inform the hype about any online trend. What follows is a short history of the phrase, along with some data to help frame the discussion.
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Set your sights high because Microsoft Office 2007 helps you work more efficiently and more effectively than ever before. Office offers an integrated set of tools that includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a note-taking application, a contact management system, and more. Microsoft made long strides toward producing an Office product that is both a pleasure to use and as simple as possible. Its simplicity lacks nothing in power; however, because Microsoft Office is the hands-down most powerful, best integrated, and most widely used set of applications in use today. Given that Office has such a large, installed base, the best place to start is with a quick overview of its most important new features. Two features obviously stand out and those are the best place to begin your Office 2007 survey.After you have this bird’s-eye view, you’ll be ready to tackle all the tasks that make Office 2007 do the work you need done, as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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What is Microsoft Excel?
• Spreadsheet software package sold by Microsoft
• Used to create spreadsheets to perform calculations
• Excel allows you to enter formulas so that when your data changes, your calculated values change as well
• Can create spreadsheets such as
o Household Budgets
o Cost sheets
o Documents involving calculations
o Tables of information
o And much more
• In addition Excel will let you
o Sort Data
o Create Charts
o Check Spelling and Grammar
o And much more
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Extensible Markup Language (‘XML’) is a standard for describing content data in a manner that facilitates the sharing of such content across different systems and applications. Over the last 10 years, the XML standard has been adopted across a wide range of environments in the IT industry. Microsoft is one of many companies that is re-aligning its existing product range to take advantage of the flexibility of XML. One of its current initiatives is the standardization of the Office Open XML File Formats (‘File Formats’).This paper reviews the standardisation process that Microsoft has embarked upon and examines Microsoft’s legal arrangements related to intellectual property associated with the File Formats and the manner in which that legal treatment interacts with other products currently on the market.
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