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April 19 2007
Rivida teams up with Etelos at Web 2.0 Expo in S.F.posted by: Joel Penner
Rivida was at this year's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco to showcase the power of the Etelos platform. As Etelos' most experienced developer partner, Rivida demonstrated its client applications developed in the Etelos ecosystem. See PROJECTS for more info.
Rivida President and CEO Michael Jones appeared with Lead Developer Joel Penner on a panel entitled, "Oh the Places You'll Go with Web 2.0 and Etelos."
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April 17 2007
Hello San Francisco!posted by: Joel Penner
Well here we are, day 2 of the Web 2.0 Expo. Today I'm going to be speaking at 2:40-3:30 in room 2014 if you want to come down and see what we have to offer.
Our website and our products are designed to run on the Etelos Ecosystem. Never heard of them? You're not alone. Etelos has been around for 11 years now but are just now getting the exposure that they deserve, they've made a tool that is great for both developers and businesses. Check out their website, you'll be surprised at what you can do.
April 02 2007
Come see us at Web 2.0 Expo 2007posted by: Jamie Schulz
--Find us in the Etelos booth!!!
February 05 2007
NEW SETTINGS FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME (DST)posted by: Jamie Schulz
New Settings for Daylight Savings Time (DST)
Just in case some people are not aware if this, the US and Canada are adopting new dates for starting and ending DST. For this reason servers and all workstations will need to run an MS update that will adjust the current DST to the new version on the PCs and servers.
I am including a short informational quote from an MS online article.
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What users can do to ease the transition
All users of Microsoft products affected by the time change
should give extra attention to meetings and appointments scheduled between
March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007,
referred to here as the "extended DST period." (In this article, the
terms "meetings" and "appointments" will be used
interchangeably.) Users should view any appointments that fall into these date
ranges as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees to make sure
that the item shows up correctly on everyone's calendar both internally and
externally. To minimize confusion during the affected date ranges:
· Include the time of the meeting in the e-mail request so that invitees can double check the correct meeting time (such as, "Project brainstorming - 11:00 A.M. Central Time").
· Exercise caution with the appointments and meetings in the extended DST period. When in doubt, verify the correct time with the organizer
· Consider printing out your weekly calendars during the extended DST period prior to applying the Windows patch containing the updated time zone definitions and running the Outlook Time Zone Update tool so that you can keep track of which meetings were scheduled before and after you run the tool.
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There is much more to this; so, if you want to view the whole thing or have any questions you will find them at the following website:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx
January 08 2007
Using the WYSIWYG editorposted by: Joel Penner
The WYSIWYG editor is an extremely powerful tool that we've incorporated into most of our applications. But with flexability comes complexity so here's a quick rundown on how to perform common tasks.
Inserting Images
On the second line of the toolbar near the middle there's an icon that looks like a tree, that's the "Insert Image" button. Before pressing the button, position your cursor to where you want to insert the image. This will bring up a popup.
On the main tab there are 2 fields you normally work with, Image URL and Image List. Image URL is the path to the image, if you're using an image from another server or you use Webdav (advanced application option) you can put the path to the image here. But there's an easier way to handle images in your application! On the main backend tabs you'll notice a "Files" tab, this is where you can upload your images and other files. When you add a file from the "Files" tab and mark it as a "Picture" it then becomes available in the Image List dropdown from the image popup. Instead of messing around with image paths, just select the image by it's name in the dropdown and it will automatically put in the path to the image so you don't have to worry about it.
One common request is the ability to wrap the text around the image you just inserted. You can do this from the "Appearance" tab on the image popup. (If you want to modify an existing image, click on the image and click on the image icon or right click and go to "Image Properties".) In the "Alignment" downdown, select "Left" or "Right". As you make any changes you can see the way the formatting works by looking at the box on the right that has a preview of sorts.
There are a lot of other cool things you can do with images from the image popup, look around and you might find something that will be useful to you.
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Creating Links
This is what the internet was invented for! To create a text link to an external page or to a page within your site the first step is to highlight the text that you want to be clickable. After you have the link text selected, click on the icon that looks like a chain in the middle toolbar. This will open up the link popup.
The 3 fields you'll use most often are the "Link URL", "Link list" and "Target." Just so you're aware of them, "Achors" are used to jump to places within the same page. You can create an anchor using the icon that looks like an anchor in the middle toolbar.
You can type in the destination URL in the "Link URL" by hand if you wish, which is useful for external links. But the real use is what you'll get by using the "Link list" dropdown which creates a dynamic URL to view the selected Article. If you are linking to an external site, it's probably a good idea to make the link pop up a new browser window so they don't leave your site. You can select this option from the "Target" dropdown. If you really want to get fancy you can use the "Popup" tab and specify exactly how the popup window looks such as the size and what browser toolbars are showing.
Spell Check
There is a spell checker that works with the editor, you can access it by clicking on the icon that has "ABC" on top of a checkmark. The spell checker is actually a normal program that you install separately on your computer that integrates with the editor. It's ok to follow the instructions and download the external application, in fact, if you want to use spell check, it's required.
Pasting from MS Word/Text
MS Word is a very proprietary application, it uses characters that most of the rest of the world doesn't recognise. You'll notice this sometimes when you paste already formatted content from a Word document, when you come back to the page you'll see weird characters in the place of dashes and such. If you can remember, use the "Paste from Word" icon on the second line of the toolbar, it helps to remove some of the proprietary stuff.
If you really have to paste from Word, I suggest pasting to a normal text editor first (like Notepad) in order to remove any weird things that Word might have put in there.
Removing all formatting
Sometimes because of highlighting differences and other nuances, your formatting is completely messed up. There's a way to remove all formatting from the highlighted selection, it's an icon that looks like a white eraser. Another option is to copy the article (Windows users can use Ctrl-A to select all) into Notepad or any other straight text editor, don't use MS Word or any word processing application since it will preserve the formatting.
Making the editor larger
If you drag the bottom right corner of the editor you can resize it to just about any size. If you need absolutely as much space as you can, click on the icon on the bottom toolbar on the far right, this will put you into full screen mode
Additional Help
On the top toolbar line there's an icon that's a blue circle with a question mark on it. Clicking on it will pop up the "About" page, change to the "Help" tab for more (semi outdated) help with using the editor
January 08 2007
Networked Print won't print via VPNposted by: Jamie Schulz
Troubleshooting tips to follow when you lose a VPN connection and/or when a networked printer won’t print via the VPN.
- If the VPN connection is dropped:
- Make sure the VPN connection is off and did not reconnect.
- If it did reconnect, disconnect it (even if the internet and email are working).
- Once the VPN is disconnected, turn off the Remote Desktop
- To do this do the following:
i. Go to the Start button > click on Log Off (if the option is there)
ii. If it is not available, click Start > Shutdown > when the Shutdown box opens select Log Off from the list
iii. Click OK
- This will close the Remote Desktop
- Once you’re at your local desktop for your computer
- Click Start button > click Shutdown (and select Shutdown from the list) > click OK
- This should turn your computer completely off and the monitor will go dark.
- Give it 15 to 30 seconds before restarting the computer
- Once the computer is restarted
- Open you VPN connection as normal
- Then open the Remote Desktop as usual
- Once you’ve reached this point you can check the printer connection by doing the following:
- Click Start > Settings > Printers
- When the Printers window opens
- Right click on your Printer (should say something like HP 3050)
- In the drop down list, select Properties
- When the Properties windows opens, click the button on the bottom right that read Print Test Page
- Another window will open asking if the test printed ok
i. Just say yes, while you’re waiting for the page to print
ii. Otherwise it will open a troubleshooting page
- If it prints, you’re done.
i. If not check to make sure there is power going to the printer
ii. That it is turned on
iii. That there is not too much paper in the tray
1. If it jams:
2. Clear the jam and try the test page again.
- If still a problem, call your network administrator to walk you through it again and do some other troubleshooting.
January 08 2007
Not showing all PCs in My Network Places in W2Kposted by: Jamie Schulz
In Windows 2000, if NWLink NetBIOS is not installed this will cause each individual machine
not to "see" other PCs on the network. Install this protocal by right
clicking on My Network Places, select Properties.
Right click on the active connection, select Properties.
In the list select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) > click Install >
Protocol > click Add > select NWLink NetBIOS > click OK.
Clear all screens and check Network Places to see if the other PCs now
appear under all computers on network.
Also, make sure NetBIOS is enabled over TCP/IP:
Right click My Network Places, go to properties.
Right click Local Area Connection go to properties.
Double click TCP/IP, go to Advanced > Wins - make sure "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" is checked.
December 31 2006
Howdy Boys!posted by: Jamie Schulz
Good on ya! :)
December 18 2006
Inviting you to our blogposted by: Jimmy Gambier
Hello all,
This is our first real entry on our company blog. We will be using this as way to communicate directly to our customers. Let us know if you have any suggestions on how we can improve our communications!
December 12 2006
Welcome to Blogsposted by: Joel Penner
This is a test of the emergency blogcast system. If this were a real emergency, we would have been hosed by the Digg effect
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