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Latest News and Blog Posts
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Here are some of my favorite posts from Atalasoft blogs this year: Remembering Glenn Glenn worked for Atalasoft since its inception, and was known throughout the programming community as Mr. TWAIN. We knew him as a good guy: quiet, with a wicked sense...
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If you are creating new pages in a PDF document using DotPdf , you’re going to be using PdfGeneratedPage objects. This is a very simple class in that it consists of really only 6 properties, 5 of which all deal with page dimensions in some way:...
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Early on in designing DotPdf , I decided that all coordinates should be expressed in PDF units. Why? This imposes either none or the same hardship on everyone. Whether you work with inches, millimeters, cubits or whatever the process...
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This is an attempt to look at PDF in a Jobs-To-Be-Done perspective and have it actually apply for a job as an invoice document format. INT. AN OFFICE IN THE BUILDING OF A SMALL WIDGET MANUFACTURER The CONTROLLER of the company is seated behind her desk...
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I’m very proud to announce the release of DotPdf , a new toolkit for .NET from Atalasoft. This toolkit includes a new set of tools for generating your own PDF documents. This is exciting for us as it is a new product that dovetails well with...
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Clay Christensen’s The Innovator’s Solution describes a way think about products, called the jobs-to-be-done framework. Briefly, you look at a product as the job it was hired to do, rather than its category, features, benefits, who bought it, etc. Christensen...
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I’m going to start with a story, which is a true story, that turns out to be a useful metaphor for programming languages. When I was in college, Raymond Smullyan came to present a guest lecture on infinities. It was an entertaining lecture. ...
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Last year I wrote a post about the social media metaphor in Twilight: Eclipse : I think a lot could be said about how the wolf pack telepathy is like Facebook (Jacob talks about the drama of a love triangle being broadcast around the wolf pack). And perhaps...
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How products become commoditized One of the theories in Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Solution explains how a high profit-margin business turns into a commoditized one. Essentially, Products in a market start to have performance that exceeds the...
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Last week was a double whammy for RIA (Rich Internet Application) developers of Flash or Silverlight applications. Adobe announced that it was stopping the development of Flash for mobile , which will bring the inevitable end of Flash-based applications....
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Three years ago, at the Business of Software conference, I presented a Pecha Kucha (lightning talk) on how to gather data on your product’s trial usage when you aren’t a website . I suggested that you should incorporate useful features into your desktop...
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Howdy, campers! If you didn’t know it already, I play ice hockey (I’m a goalie.) Yes, I was raised in the south. Back in 2000, my friend Laura and I went to a Boston Bruins game. They lost. Actually, if I remember correctly (and I've...
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As part of my duties on the local Regional Employment Board, I probably pay an inordinate amount of attention to the labor market. This graph struck me: It shows that there are seven unemployed workers for each job opening. Other sources report...
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Today is exactly 4-months since Atalasoft become a Kofax company . Many of you have asked me how it’s going. The truth is it’s going very well and I’m learning a lot, but not without its challenges. As General Manager, my job is to keep managing the business...
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Hola, Bonjour, Hallo, and Howdy -- If you downloaded DotImage 10.0a, please upgrade to DotImage 10.0b, available right now for download . DotImage 10.0a has the version number 10.0.1.50820, and was available between 18-Aug-2011 and 2-Sept-2011 (this morning,...
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We recently released DotImage 10 and if you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we are committed to building the best .NET imaging components. Since I started at Atalasoft, I have been looking at the issue of making as much of our internals...
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Just saw this on Deadspin : Mike Commodore has just signed a contract with the Detroit Red Wings and is considering taking the number 64 for his Jersey. This is what it would look like (thanks to shop.nhl.com for making this so easy to do). Mike...
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When Napster came out, the tech media was obsessed with the power of peer-to-peer. This classic Joel Spolsky article nailed it: A recent example illustrates this. Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer...
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All of the overviews I’ve read of Google+ so far concentrate on the social aspects, Circles, Huddle (Group Chat), Hangout (Group Video), and rightly so, as those are the features that Google is hoping will make you switch to them. Sparks, the feature...
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I saw this article wherein StackOverflow is used to correlate developer age with knowledge/ability as well as inversely correlating with quantity of developers. Read the whole article – it’s interesting although I don’t agree with all his conclusions. ...
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Cue radio silence-- I'm taking the next 8 weeks off from Atalasoft and this blog to have an AtalaBaby, the 4th born to an Atalasoft employee this year! I know you'll miss our antics terribly, but never fear! We have Twitter and FaceBook accounts to whet...
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I don’t usually ask for a code sample, but I do accept them if they are offered. I don’t ask for them because the code samples I have received have been disappointing and perhaps do not represent the potential of the person giving them to me. The biggest...
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This Saturday I participated in a workshop at GCC to discuss a proposed computer gaming major, set of courses, or electives (it’s early in the process). If you are in Western Massachusetts, and in the gaming industry, or just interested in participating,...
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Did you hear the news?! Atalasoft is being acquired. By Kofax! It’s been slightly crazy around here, as you can imagine. Lots of questions, phone calls, paper, emails flying about and best of all, excitement. Despite the fact that we are being purchased...
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Today, Atalasoft announced it is being acquired by Kofax , a publically traded software company and the market leader in the Document Capture space. As you may know, I founded the company in 2002, and bootstrapped it all the way. We never took outside...
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