Delphi/400 is a suite of application modernization tools designed to enable System i application developers to build completely new Web applications or build new Web interfaces to existing applications. For the System/i developer, there is lots of good news. The approach is based on the same notion of holistic application design and user interface / logic separation that System i developers have been using since the box you and I love was once called the System/38 Delphi/400 is the toolset that best addresses the notion of the application factory of rapid application development. It is the natural next step in a progression of tools from those with sophisticated names such as “Intelligent Development Environment,” “Componentization,” and “Visualization.” Yes, It is all of those and more. It does its thing by asking the developer to think about the whole application, not just one Web page at a time. Isn’t that how System i developers already think?
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Silverlight is Microsoft’s cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in that allows the creation of interactive web applications that employ high quality streaming media, vector graphics, images, and animation. Deployed as a plug-in for the major browsers on the Windows, Mac and Linux (supported by Novell) operating systems, web developers can craft interactive applications that have an identical user experience on the vast majority of web browsers deployed today. Silverlight addresses a disconnect that exists today in web development workflow where the design intent of graphics designers and interaction designers cannot be faithfully communicated to and crafted by the web developers. In Silverlight, this intent is created in design tools like Expression Design and Expression Blend and passed off to web developers in XML-based XAML data files. The fidelity of the designers’ ideas is kept as there is a clear separation between the design in XAML and the code in JavaScript.
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Many software developers are attracted to the idea of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) but unsure about how to begin using the technology. They recognize the concept of crosscutting concerns, and know that they have had problems with the implementation of such concerns in the past. But there are many questions about how to adopt AOP into the development process.
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The MIDISPORT provides up to four independent MIDI input ports and up to four independent MIDI output ports, depending on which model you have. Each MIDI port supports 16 MIDI channels, therefore the MIDISPORT is capable of sending and receiving from 16 (1 port x 16 channels) to 64 (4 ports x 16) channels. MIDI is the acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is the protocol used when “MIDI” keyboards and devices that record and play back the “MIDI” information (computers and hardware “sequencers”) communicate with each other. MIDI Interfaces such as the MIDISPORT are typically used to interface MIDI synthesizers with MIDI sequencing software.
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More than 15 million geographic queries hit the Microsoft MapPoint Web Service every day, supporting thousands of different mission-critical applications around the world. The MapPoint Web Service is a location and mapping platform that allows developers to easily build location-based services into applications such as Web site locators, fleet and asset tracking applications, call-center applications, and more. Hosted by Microsoft Corp., the MapPoint Web Service contains the cartographic, demographic, business listing, construction, traffic and other data and provides the programmatic access to maps and driving directions, addresses and places, and proximity searches that many businesses rely on in their day to day processes.
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The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) [HP+97] is a protocol that allows Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connections [Sim94] to be tunneled through an IP network, creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Microsoft has implemented its own algorithms and protocols to support PPTP. This implementation of PPTP, called Microsoft PPTP, is used extensively in commercial VPN products precisely because it is already a part of the Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and NT operating systems.
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Since 1979, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory* has been developing and distributing the Ballistic Research Laboratory - Computer-Aided Design (BRL-CAD) three-dimensional (3-D) solid modeling package to support combat vehicle vulnerability studies and various other military and industrial applications. The software, which is now in its third generation, includes a large collection of tools and utilities, including an interactive geometry editor, raytracing and generic framebuffer libraries, network-distributed image-processing/signal-processing capabilities, and an embedded scripting language.
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Documentation Introduction Protocol Support Addresses and Port Number Serial RS232 Interface USB Interface Power Supply Ethernet Interface LEDs Product CD Technical Specifications Getting Started Physically Connecting the Unit Install USB Device Drivers NETUSB Software Interface Virtual COM Port Driver Installation Windows 2000 Virtual COM Port Driver Installation Windows XP Virtual COM Port Driver Installation Windows 98 SE Virtual COM Port Driver Installation Linux 2.40 Methods of Assigning the IP Address Hardware Address IP Address DHCP AutoIP Device Installer Install Device Installer RUN Device Installer Device Found Assign IP Assignment Using Device Installer Viewing the Current Configuration
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