By George Gilbert
Double Text is a repeat text writer that works with virtually any scripting and programming language. I use the program extensively to store, document and repeat code snippets for all of the programming languages in which I work. I find that it is to my advantage, therefore, to have this repeat text writer readily available to me regardless of where I am working in the Microsoft Visual Studio software development environment. With the program on the Visual Studio Tools menu, I do not have to bother with the Windows Start menu, or with getting back to my desktop to start the program.
Adding The Program To The Tools Menu
Here are the steps for adding Double Text, or any other programming tool you use, to the Visual Studio Tools menu. In Visual Studio, click on the Tools menu and then the External Tools command. This will open the External Tools dialog box. Follow these steps in the dialog box.
1. Click the Add button. This will add a new Title to the Tools menu at the end of the existing titles.
2. In the Title textbox, change the new Title to "Double Text."
3. Click on the browse button to the right of the Command textbox. Browse to the folder where the program is installed. (If the installation path was not changed during installation, the program will be on the C: drive. Drill down through the Program Files and 2 Good Software folders to the Double Text folder.) In the installation folder, select the dbltext.exe file and then click the Open button.
4. To change the position of the program within the other tools listed on the Tools menu, use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the order of the menu contents.
5. Click the OK button.
Starting And Exiting The Program
Double Text will now be listed on the Visual Studio Tools menu. Whenever you are working in Visual Studio, you can start the program by clicking on the Tools menu and then the Double Text command. Unfortunately, when you exit Visual Studio, the repeat text writer will not also be closed. The program must be closed separately.
Using The Program
Repeating code snippets is the process of using Double Text to place a copy of code stored in source libraries on the Windows clipboard. Code that is to be repeated is set up once in a source file using the built in text editor. After a source file has been created, whenever a new copy of the code is needed it is placed on the clipboard with one mouse click. After a new copy has been placed on the clipboard, the repeated code can be pasted where needed in Visual Studio.
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
NetSuite Adds Capabilities to SaaS CRM Offering
Some CRM news I found, here are excerpts-
NetSuite announced new capabilities for its flagship CRM product, NetSuite CRM+, featuring AJAX-powered workflows. These new workflows center around user interaction and are now also supported in the new Firefox 3 web browser, along with other capabilities of NetSuite such as eXtreme list editing, rich-text editing, drag-and-drop and quick-add portlets.
ebizQ received the following:
"NetSuite has long been the gold standard for the use of AJAX in business applications, pioneering rich, dynamic user interface capabilities in a browser application typically found only in desktop applications," said Mini Peiris, NetSuite Vice President of Product Marketing. "Today's new release of NetSuite CRM+ demonstrates our ongoing commitment to innovation and to addressing specific customer requirements."
New Features Increase User Productivity
Launched in May 2005, NetSuite CRM+ is NetSuite's most feature-rich CRM offering, encompassing CRM requirements at every phase of the customer lifecycle. Unlike other CRM offerings in the market which focus largely on prospect management, NetSuite CRM+ goes much further by giving growing businesses a 360-degree view of all customer interactions, as well as the ability to actually record sales transactions. NetSuite CRM+ includes order management, partner management, incentive management, and project tracking.
Today's new release adds to the rich heritage of NetSuite CRM+ and the use of innovative, AJAX-powered user interfaces for key functional areas with:
Step-wise Assistants for Marketing Automation — a new two-step assisted workflow for group creation allows marketers to easily segment and slice their target audience for focused campaign execution. Similarly, the workflow for the creation of simple marketing and email templates, as well as uploading rich HTML-based marketing templates has been greatly streamlined with productivity of the marketer as the primary focus.
Read the entire article originally published on EbizQ
NetSuite announced new capabilities for its flagship CRM product, NetSuite CRM+, featuring AJAX-powered workflows. These new workflows center around user interaction and are now also supported in the new Firefox 3 web browser, along with other capabilities of NetSuite such as eXtreme list editing, rich-text editing, drag-and-drop and quick-add portlets.
ebizQ received the following:
"NetSuite has long been the gold standard for the use of AJAX in business applications, pioneering rich, dynamic user interface capabilities in a browser application typically found only in desktop applications," said Mini Peiris, NetSuite Vice President of Product Marketing. "Today's new release of NetSuite CRM+ demonstrates our ongoing commitment to innovation and to addressing specific customer requirements."
New Features Increase User Productivity
Launched in May 2005, NetSuite CRM+ is NetSuite's most feature-rich CRM offering, encompassing CRM requirements at every phase of the customer lifecycle. Unlike other CRM offerings in the market which focus largely on prospect management, NetSuite CRM+ goes much further by giving growing businesses a 360-degree view of all customer interactions, as well as the ability to actually record sales transactions. NetSuite CRM+ includes order management, partner management, incentive management, and project tracking.
Today's new release adds to the rich heritage of NetSuite CRM+ and the use of innovative, AJAX-powered user interfaces for key functional areas with:
Step-wise Assistants for Marketing Automation — a new two-step assisted workflow for group creation allows marketers to easily segment and slice their target audience for focused campaign execution. Similarly, the workflow for the creation of simple marketing and email templates, as well as uploading rich HTML-based marketing templates has been greatly streamlined with productivity of the marketer as the primary focus.
Read the entire article originally published on EbizQ
Do outbound links leak pagerank?
When I read about this issue…my first reaction was “what nonsense!”. I mean why would my PR suffer when I am giving some contextual links to my visitors, to read some references?
I found very contradictory opinions on this. Here are my learnings.
1. If you are providing only links, but no useful content of your own, then regardless of PR leak, you will certainly have visitor leak. This makes a lot of sense. If you don’t have anything to offer other than links, why should visitors visit that page? But again, if you have classified links, with some comments about every reference you are citing, that might be very useful to a reader, and your page might be worth bookmarking for him! an may be Google considers bookmarking as a factor.
2. If your site, as a whole has no outbound links, then crawler can’t proceed to some other interesting place from your site. This is not so good! This is called link sink. Flowing water to good to drink…once it’s still…it becomes undrinkable.
3. It is true that a link “donates” pagerank, rather than just “voting”…but still you are better of by giving out at least a few links to good quality sites. Google penalizes the sites that hoard pagerank like this.
4. If you give out some links, you can get back some links. Now, this is a very general rule. As with a normal social interaction, it might not result into reprocation. For example, frankly, I haven’t received any backlinks to this blog so far from the links that I put in my previous posts. Now, here is a contradiction…if you give out a link to an “authority” site, it might be good for you, but it’s unlikely that they’ll reciprocate and donate PR to you. So may be an ideal strategy would be to donate links to an “upcoming” site, than an “authority” one, who is more likely to have the manners and time to return the favor. Isn’t this eerily similar to real world social interaction? :)
5. Linking out helps in establishing context. My friend Saptarshi performed an experiment in which he proves that outbound links help Google to put the page in SERP for that particular context.
6. There are a lot of (over 100?) ranking factors in the ranking algorithm. Even though outbound links do reduce PR, they might have positive effect in some other parameters.
7. There might be different rule based on class of the site. Directories have huge number of outbound links, many of them not reciprocal.
8. You can use nofollow links to prevent leakage of PageRank.
The golden rule is always, as they say, content is king! If you have great content, and a decent site strcture, you will not need to worry too much about technicalities of PR.
I’ll keep posting more information as I find it… :)
I found very contradictory opinions on this. Here are my learnings.
1. If you are providing only links, but no useful content of your own, then regardless of PR leak, you will certainly have visitor leak. This makes a lot of sense. If you don’t have anything to offer other than links, why should visitors visit that page? But again, if you have classified links, with some comments about every reference you are citing, that might be very useful to a reader, and your page might be worth bookmarking for him! an may be Google considers bookmarking as a factor.
2. If your site, as a whole has no outbound links, then crawler can’t proceed to some other interesting place from your site. This is not so good! This is called link sink. Flowing water to good to drink…once it’s still…it becomes undrinkable.
3. It is true that a link “donates” pagerank, rather than just “voting”…but still you are better of by giving out at least a few links to good quality sites. Google penalizes the sites that hoard pagerank like this.
4. If you give out some links, you can get back some links. Now, this is a very general rule. As with a normal social interaction, it might not result into reprocation. For example, frankly, I haven’t received any backlinks to this blog so far from the links that I put in my previous posts. Now, here is a contradiction…if you give out a link to an “authority” site, it might be good for you, but it’s unlikely that they’ll reciprocate and donate PR to you. So may be an ideal strategy would be to donate links to an “upcoming” site, than an “authority” one, who is more likely to have the manners and time to return the favor. Isn’t this eerily similar to real world social interaction? :)
5. Linking out helps in establishing context. My friend Saptarshi performed an experiment in which he proves that outbound links help Google to put the page in SERP for that particular context.
6. There are a lot of (over 100?) ranking factors in the ranking algorithm. Even though outbound links do reduce PR, they might have positive effect in some other parameters.
7. There might be different rule based on class of the site. Directories have huge number of outbound links, many of them not reciprocal.
8. You can use nofollow links to prevent leakage of PageRank.
The golden rule is always, as they say, content is king! If you have great content, and a decent site strcture, you will not need to worry too much about technicalities of PR.
I’ll keep posting more information as I find it… :)
Open Web Foundation Officially Launches
This morning at that OSCON conference David Recordon of Six Apart will announce on stage the formation of the Open Web Foundation. The new foundation is about providing a home for the development and ratification of web-related standards efforts. The foundation will be focused on developing the technical specifications of protocols used for communication and inter-operability between applications on the web. The foundation will also set out the legal terms and best practices for the use and transport of both private and public data, and the usage of web services.
We first reported on the announcement on Tuesday of this week after Chris Saad, the co-founder of the Data Portability project wrote a post about the announcement. The Data Portability project is focused on the evangelism of data openness and transparency, while the new Open Web Foundation will be focused on implementation issues.
Yesterday at the F8 conference Facebook announced their support for the new foundation, and we have learnt that Google, MySpace, Six Apart, Plaxo and many others will also be supporting the new initiative. Google and Facebook now have an appropriate venue where they can resolve their differences and work on a standard way to have their users interact with each other between the Facebook Connect and OpenSocial platforms. The web foundation also provides the technical details, as well as policy details, on how such a relationship between companies and products could work.
Currently there is not much more at the Open Web Foundation outside of a lot of strong backing, a lot of strongly willed organizers and a lot of initiative. The foundation hopes that within the next few months after the announcement today they will be able to release their first set of work on data standards and formats.
China surpasses US in internet use
China has the maximum number of internet users-
China surpasses US in internet use.
Overtaking the US, Chinas internet-users population has reached 253 million by the end of June, reflecting the explosive growth in the web-user market in the country, data showed.
Latest government figures also showed that China also had the largest number of broadband subscribers at 214 million, more than 80 per cent of the total domestic internet population.
The number of Internet users at 253 million marked a 56.2 per cent rise from 162 million reported in 2007, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), a semi-official organisation, said in a report.
The US has 218 million net users till December 31, 2007 when China had 210 million users. Based on the US growth pattern, CNNIC estimated that the numbers in the US could have now reached 230 million by the end of June this year.
The report, quoted by official Xinhua news agency and state-run China Daily, also showed that 206 million internet users checked news online, about 81.5 per cent of the whole domestic online population.
About 63.29 million shopped online, or a quarter of the whole domestic internet population, while 23.79 million paid money through online means, the CNNIC said.
"Though the number of internet users is now the highest in the world, China is far from an internet power in terms of the rate of penetration and the commercial value of its citizens," Liu bing, Chief Writer of the CNNIC semi-annual report said.
China surpasses US in internet use.
Overtaking the US, Chinas internet-users population has reached 253 million by the end of June, reflecting the explosive growth in the web-user market in the country, data showed.
Latest government figures also showed that China also had the largest number of broadband subscribers at 214 million, more than 80 per cent of the total domestic internet population.
The number of Internet users at 253 million marked a 56.2 per cent rise from 162 million reported in 2007, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), a semi-official organisation, said in a report.
The US has 218 million net users till December 31, 2007 when China had 210 million users. Based on the US growth pattern, CNNIC estimated that the numbers in the US could have now reached 230 million by the end of June this year.
The report, quoted by official Xinhua news agency and state-run China Daily, also showed that 206 million internet users checked news online, about 81.5 per cent of the whole domestic online population.
About 63.29 million shopped online, or a quarter of the whole domestic internet population, while 23.79 million paid money through online means, the CNNIC said.
"Though the number of internet users is now the highest in the world, China is far from an internet power in terms of the rate of penetration and the commercial value of its citizens," Liu bing, Chief Writer of the CNNIC semi-annual report said.
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