Last month marked the successful completion of our 31 Apps in 31 Days effort where Atalasoft developers (including yours truly) developed and deployed 31 applications using the DotImage 6.0 Toolkit in 31 days, with full source code. The goal was to create small applications using our toolkit during our normal workday. It was quite an undertaking ...

UPDATED: May 7 - see Dave's blog to see what's new Welcome to the second of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. The AtalaAutoRotater is as simple to use as it was to ...

Motivation App (find an image URL from Google or Imageshack first) Welcome to the first of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.For this application, I wanted to show off ...

Before picking up the phone to call a software company's technical support, how many of these questions cross your mind? They wont talk to me until I show them the money I'll be on hold forever, just to leave a voicemail that goes unanswered I'm going to be directed to someone in India I'm going to be speaking to someone who knows less about ...

Starting on May 1st, Atalasoft is going to be releasing one application every single day for the whole month. This blog is where we will be posting each application as they come out. We're going to post 31 applications made with DotImage (Atalasoft's .NET imaging toolkit), including the source code, to show how creating functional apps can be ...

Wow, has life changed since Atalasoft, Inc. was incorporated in August 2002, just over 5 years ago.  The turning point for me in founding Atalasoft was the aftermath of 9/11.  I did not want to be at the mercy of a large corporation in aerospace facing a downturn.  I would seek a new challenge with a simple vision.  I realized ...

Atalasoft @ Tech Ed 2007, June 4-8: Are You Going? Come meet us at Tech Ed in Orlando, booth 1329. We will be running demos showcasing the advanced capabilities of DotImage v5.0 and its add-ons. We will be giving away limited-edition t-shirts, Zunes, DotImage Photo SDKs (a $500 value!) and other Atalasoft collectibles! It's a great ...

Let me tell ya, it can be hard thinking about blogging when running a company.  I've started a few essays, but haven't had the time to bring them to life yet.  So what's been going on with myself and Atalasoft this past month?  Here's the abridged version: 1) We started using SCRUM at Atalasoft and delivered DotImage 5.0 ...

Let's face it.  CPU's just aren't getting any faster anymore.  CPU's have hit a ceiling in terms of processor speed, and that ceiling seems to be at about 3Ghz.  The new thing now is packaging multiple processors in a single CPU known as multi-core processors.  Now that the cheapest of PC's include dual core's applications, ...

It's amazing to me that the term ''AJAX'' was first coined as recently as February 2005 by a man named Jesse James Garrett.  He was looking for a term to express to his clients explaining an application using JavaScript, CSS, DOM, and asynchronous HTTP callbacks.  AJAX is easy to say, and it gave the industry a word for this ...