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June 21, 2009

Dealing with Multiple Outlook profiles

Recently I was on client site of one of my companies prestigious client for the gathering of some new business requirement and understanding of their existing work model. I faced a typical yet very common problem which i think most of you have faced on your clientele’ visit.

Dealing with multiple outlook profiles specially when you are for a long term client site visit and had to juggle between your company mail account and a new mail id provided by your client to interact with their technical/Business team.

So, here is one common solution which i think most of you might be aware but this blog entry is for those who are still uaware of it. 🙂

The answer is “Extra Outlook”

Steps to configure:

1. Download Extra Outlook from http://www.hammerofgod.com/download/ExtraOutlook.zip,
2. Create a new profile in outlook. Control Panel -> Mail -> Add,
3. Create a bat file with the entry,
extraoutlook.exe “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\outlook.exe” /profile “New Profile”
4. Save the file with extension “.bat”,
5. Open the first instance normally by the outlook icon provided in the start menu,
6. Open second instance by running the bat file from command prompt or by double click.

Note:

1. Keep the bat file in same folder where the extraoutlook.exe is kept,
2. Provide the outlook.exe path as per your machine installation.

June 19, 2009June 30, 2009

What is Ext-Js(Extended JavaScript)

Ext-JS is a open source JavaScript library for building interactive web applications[2] using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting.It is easy to use,rich user interface and more it can be a desktop application. It includes:
• High performance, customizable UI widgets
• Well designed and extensible Component model
• An intuitive, easy to use API
• Commercial and Open Source licenses available

Ext-js have a vast range of GUI-based form controls for use within web applications, these contains:
• text field and textarea input
• date fields with a pop-up date-picker
• numeric fields
• list box and comboboxes
• radio and checkbox controls
• html editor control
• grid control
• tree control
• tab panels
• toolbars
• desktop-application-style menus
• region panels to allow a form to be divided into multiple sub-sections
• sliders
Many of these controls are able to communicate with a web server using AJAX.

Files you can need in using Ext –
•Ext-all.css — A stylesheet file that control the look and feel of Ext widgets.This file must be Included without modification.
•Ext-base.js — This provide core functionality of Ext.It is basic machinery of EXT.for using other Library like jquery we need to change this file.
•ext-all-debug.js/ext-all.js — All of the widgets live in this files.This is primary ext library file.

It is not a other Java Script library. It can work with other java script libararies by using adapters.For that You need to include adapter file that is exist in adpater folder of Ext sdk.

Default Ext adapter :

 
<script src =”lib/extjs/adapter/ext/ext-base.js”></script>

For jquery include these files in top of your document:

 
<script src =”lib/jquery.js”></script>
<script src =”lib/jquery-plugins.js”></script>
<script src =”lib/extjs/adapter/jquery/ext-jquery-adapter.js”></script>

After including adapters and base libraries we need to include ext-all.js or ext-all-debug.js file.Localization is possible in Ext-js.Only you need to include language file in lib folder.

Common elements in Ext-

Ext.onReady – This function makes sures that our document is ready to be work.It make our code to Wait until the DOM is available.This is needed because javaScript starts executing as soon as it enocuntered in the documents,at which point our DOM might not exist.

Ext.MSg.show – This function for creating the dialog.It will handle all care needed to have dialog. It will create appilication style messages boxes for us.

Ext.get – This function accesses and manipulates elements in the DOM.

Adapter: Files that allows you to use to other java script libraries with Ext-Js.

References : www.extjs.com

June 8, 2009June 9, 2009

Worldkit:Open Source Awesome looking Mapping application

Problem
Are you looking for a good mapping application component to use in your application. It should have good graphics and should be easy to use??

you want to display your data on a World or a local map. Just like Google maps or Live Maps but free of cost??

Solution
The solution to the above problem exists with the name of Worldkit
worldKit is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It’s a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects.

Some of the Features of Worldkit

Ubiquitous use in the Flash Player and with RSS feeds.
Highly configurable look and feel. Can use images for marking annotations.
Integrates with weblogging tools, and any software producing RSS.
Displays photos within the map.
Zoom & Pan. Integrates with Zoomify for high resolution images, and WMS Sources.
Lines and Polygons. Time Navigation.
Accepts input for Collaborative Cartography & GeoWiki.
Annotations are categorizable. Javascript interface for GIS layer functionality.
GPS track routes.

Basically its a flash application which can take data from RSS feeds directly or from an XML file as specified by us.
It also shows the night and day lights on the same image.

It has got a specified configuration format.

Snapshot
worldkitsample

Examples
The tool has already been used at many sites around the web and the complete list can be found on Examples page.