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PHPAnywhere is a new service that allows editing code from any computer, but it raises grave security concerns. [More]

Experiences with bad installation experiences of Open Source Issue management systems lead me to Eventum which is a great Issue management System, it's open Source licensed under a GNU GPL. It may not be the most attractive application, but it does all that I could ask of it and is very easy to use. [More]

Media RSS (MRSS) is an XML format which extends the RSS format. By using this format, a website can be enabled to provide rich media functionality. This can be used for images, audio and video. This entry discusses enabling Media RSS for images. Video is very easy to implement, but will not be discussed here. By using PicLens in Firefox, the result looks like below. It is very fast, full screen, and has nice facilities to scroll around the images, zoom in and out and other such things. Here I will discuss a simple implementation, and you can scroll below to download a small .NET application to automate this process. If you already have a Media RSS viewing application, then check out an example of the output (Note, copyright links were added after the page was generated). [More]

After upgrading Moodle, an open source Learning Management System, I started experiencing problems uploading SCORM objects. The specific errors I was getting were PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature, and An error occurs during package unzip (sic). Other error messages that can be caused by lack of disk space are An error occurred while copying the zip file to the course directory and An error occurred while backing up course start [More]

This VSTO project creates a context sensitive dynamic help system inside of Microsoft Word, based on the current cursor location. For example, if the cursor is on an image, then help information would be presented regarding the business rules pertaining to images. I.E. what size can the image be, policies regarding alternative text for web publishing etc. The help information is presented in a custom task pane, and uses HTML. [More]

Wikipediaise is a Visual Tools for Office addin (VSTO) developed in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 as an addin for Microsoft Word. It is written in C#. It can be used to hyperlink acronyms and jargon to Wikipedia or any other reference source and add entries and add an acronym table to a Word document. [More]