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Latest News and Blog Posts
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DotImage 7.0c Released We are happy to announce a new version of DotImage has been released. Version 7.0c includes a number of bug fixes and other updates . Atalasoft is always looking to improve our products with your feedback. Let us know if you have...
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Ok, so Google is coming out with an OS for netbooks . It’s a classic vertical niche market entry strategy. With support for ARM, they keep out Microsoft (at least, for now), and Apple won’t provide OS’s for non-Apple hardware, so the field is wide-open....
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What can you extract from the following dialogue between P rospect and E mployee? P: Which formats does <application name> support? E: Which one are you interested in? P: Err… Give me all you have! E: We support many formats, including… which one...
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Yesterday , we adjusted the colors in our image by targeting the channels. Today, we adjust the image’s hue, saturation, and luminosity with the AdjustHslCommand. I could practically copy yesterday’s post to today – you need a color image, the Region...
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Too much blue? Not enough blue? Get rid of blue altogether? The AdjustChannelCommand lets you manually adjust the colors in your image by adjusting the channels . It is available for DotImage Photo , Photo Pro , and Document Imaging...
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The Kerberos, or Cerberus in Latin, a multithreaded multi-headed dog with tail of serpent heads, the hellhound, who used to guard the gates of Hades behind the river of Styx to keep the dead ancient Greek people dead in the kingdom of Shadows. Once Kerberos...
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This is a post about a serious bug I turned up in the Microsoft C++ compilers that target CLI (both Managed C++ and C++/CLI). One of the key concepts in software engineering is Design by Contract . Design by Contract boils down to “say what you...
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While looking into SharePoint Search Server 2008 Express and ways we can customize the search results for our customers a coworker suggested I look at Faceted Search , an Open Sourced project originally an add-on for SharePoint that’s written by Microsoft. ...
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The 8 Things series on AIIM’s Digital Landfill blog is still going strong. Today, they published my contribution, 8 Ways to Reduce your Storage and Bandwidth Costs for Document Imaging Solutions . If you’d like more imaging information like that, sign...
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Enter the ChangePixelFormatCommand. It changes your image’s pixel format. It is available for DotImage Photo , Photo Pro , and Document Imaging . You may say, “Elaine, why would I use that when I can just call GetChangedPixelFormat from my...
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The F.U.D. There has been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about HTML 5 and its supposed takeover on the web (or lack thereof). It's only a matter of time before Flash and Silverlight become less relevant. The CEO of Adobe, Shantanu Narayen, defended...
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If you find yourself in the Boston area tomorrow, Monday July 6th , come see Amanda Laucher’s New England F# User’s Group talk . She is currently working on a new book for O’Reilly: F# in a Nutshell. Luca Bolognese’s Series on LAgent: Parts...
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Sure, this one should be pretty straightforward. As the name implies, this command automatically crops the solid color border from the edge of an image. It is available for DotImage Photo , Photo Pro , and Document Imaging . Setting parameters...
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In this article we’ll take a shallow look at how to customize the search results by finding the Search Core Results web part editing its output XSLT a bit. Yes, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express has been out for quite some time, but I’ve just...
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Greetings, Campers. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, some very smart people decided to make things easy. They developed a bunch of ImageCommands, which, though they did some pretty nifty things to images, were stab-your-eyes-out...
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Here’s a good article in Computerworld for determining the true cost of SharePoint . Key message, it’s just like any other enterprise software, don’t treat it like off-the-shelf software: If CIOs treat SharePoint as off-the-shelf software, the costs will...
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Once upon a time I had to join a workgroup-based SharePoint test server to a domain. SharePoint wonderland is like 4th dimension – it is full of unexpected and no task is trivial for naive 3D creature. Jake and Dave referred me to a magical “15-step”...
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One of the things like most about C++ for production coding is RAII. I can make an object on the stack clean up resources by putting the cleanup code in the object’s destructor. When the function/method goes out of scope, the destructor is...
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While Atalasoft in Boston (at SPTechCon) this week, showing our Document Viewer for SharePoint , there was more SharePoint news across town at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Fierce Content Management is reporting on Christian Finn’s comments about SharePoint...
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I’ve found ( as others have ) an interesting problem with ASP.NET AJAX’s Sys.Application.add_load function. It doesn’t quite work as expected in all browser environments, under certain conditions. We have several ASP.NET based controls that use a lot...
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Over on Digital Landfill, the AIIM blog, John Mancini is publishing submissions on “ 8 Things you need to know about [some ECM topic] ”. Experts from all over the AIIMiverse are submitting lists on their area of expertise – definitely worth a read (and...
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There is a process in hardware and OS management that I like to call Configuration Jeopardy. It’s when you’re working on a particular task and you spend hours or days trying to solve a problem that you know should be easy to solve but neither Google...
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Jeff Shuey thinks Document Capture in SharePoint is up for grabs : Companies that had a chance to own this space have faltered. The leading vendor of document capture for 20+ years is Kofax. They have fallen flat and cannot seem to get out of their own...
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While working with some dynamically created textarea tags, I noticed some odd behavior in Internet Explorer. I was trying to get a textarea tag to fit to the height of its content, while allowing a horizontal scrollbar for when a word (or url) is too...
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Almost too much to keep up with this week. Most notably, Roger Castillo gave a fantastic talk on F#’s Language Oriented Programming features. Also interesting, the Microsoft Research F7 project, Symbolic Differentiation, and tail call optimized...
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