Introduction

Clients often contact us with they need a Corporate Portal or Website. Use of Microsoft SharePoint platform is one of the easiest and convenient ways to solve their tasks. In this article, I’ll try to briefly describe the powerful tool for creating similar solutions.

Microsoft SharePoint is a web-oriented platform for collaboration and document management. The solution can be used to create various web-sites with shared documents or dedicated applications (i.e. Wiki, blogs, and forums). SharePoint functionality is presented to the User through editable control elements that display data. Such web parts are placed on pages which in their turn are placed on the Portal and are available to the User via the browser.

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Author: Dudarev Roman, Ph.D. of Engineering

Introduction

Due to the wide spreading of computer technologies, which give an option to position objects on the Earth surface (i.e. GPS, GLONASS), there is a unique possibility to create computer systems that can be used in day-to-day functioning of an organization without considerable expenses. There are vehicle tracking systems of public transport and medical organizations and also navigators for private cars. All these systems have the same feature: there is a cartographical module on the basis. The module displays an interactive map and gives an option to track the set object. Our company has also developed the vehicle control system for organizations. The system consists of the several parts. Client module (developed in C# .Net 3.5 WPF) displays the map and the vehicles. Look&Feel of the Client Module is given in the picture below.

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In software outsourcing not every thing is as it seems…

Magicians are a wonder to watch; even when you know what they are doing. Perhaps the most impressive thing is how easy they make it look. The reason it looks easy is they have practiced;they made all the mistakes before they got it right. You just don’t get to see the mistake, if you are lucky.
Magicians make magic appear so easy. Competent outsourcing partners make outsourcing seem easy. So easy, in fact, you may even want to give it a try. Just like trying to do magic, it doesn’t take long to figure out it is easy only when you know what you are doing.
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Author: Yakov Zhdanov

Many systems support video upload and viewing functionality. Of course, all video files uploaded by users shall be converted to some common format (flv format as usual) to make playback easier, probably scaled to common resolution, or watermarks are required on the site, etc. Therefore, developers have to solve the problem of video conversion very often and use various approaches.
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The purpose of this report is to view a hypothetical retail environment and a RFID potential solution. We have addressed the application of RFID in the broadest possible way to provide for acceptance including most common offerings available currently. Of course certain elements are addressed as to ROI, price performance of tags and equipment and we have done so for the US retail market for applications in general retail.
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Author: Vladimir Tarassyuk

iPhone contains many useful features. One of them is build-in camera and Camera application system for making photos. It looks great but what about camera usage with native applications? iPhone SDK provides the capability of using camera through UIImagePickerController class. That’s great but there is a small disadvantage – you cannot create a full-screen persistent “live” camera view like the Camera application does. Instead of that you should use UIImagePickerController only in modal mode – show the pop-up modal view when you need a photo and close the view after the photo is made. You have to reopen this view again to take the next one.
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Author: Alexander Tretyakevich

Architectural Goals

The application architecture should address the following goals:

• Provide for sufficient level of the performance for a specific subsystem/business feature
• Be scalable to meet the needs for different lifecycles of the application (small at the start/growing as the popularity of the system will grow)
• Be effective (scaling of a specific feature shouldn’t require scaling of the entire system/global change of the application deployment environment)
• Be maintainable

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Creating components using WPF

This article has been initiated by some knowledge that we wanted to share based on our Silverlight experiences from one of the projects that we made.

Silverlight is a perspective platform for web solutions. Microsoft has been actively developing it, trying to move Macromedia Flash aside from its current position. In the internet, there is a plenty of data containing examples based on Silverlight, which indeed look impressive. However, unfortunately it is really hard to say anything specific on effort involved as well as possible pitfalls. As an object for our experiments, we have selected a control for setting a value in a specific numeric range. What we have finally achieved you will know a bit later as well as of difficulties and pitfalls.

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Author: Renat Akhmerov

This example is a live code that demonstrates the FastContainer pattern described in our article “GWT: improving performance”. The goal of the example is to research setInnerHtml phenomenon more detailed and to see concrete results in milliseconds. Besides that I am going to consider a few important aspects of the real implementation of FastContainer pattern. You can see working example at http://www.stravati.com/examples/fastcontainer and download its source code from http://www.stravati.com/examples/sources/fast-container-demo-src.zip.

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When developing software for multimedia Internet kiosks there was a necessity to playback FLV-files using a player built into a web page. Opportunities to create a fast and lightweight FLV-player based on standard Flash-components caused a large number of such players to appear in the Internet. In practice such solutions mostly were either simple and non-flexible or way too expensive (despite for the fact of being “free” – a part of the players came along with truncated functionality and offered buying a complete version for $XX).

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