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Scientific and technological support across the highway transportation development in Shaanxi – Shan

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Article by jekky

10 years ago, but 362 km expressway in Shaanxi; 10 years, “provincial highway mileage up to 2,770 kilometers, ranking the ninth, the first western. Xian as its center, railway, highway, aviation combination of three-dimensional transportation network has been formed. “Speaking of Shaanxi Province, the western development a decade change in the economic and social development, the first governor Yuan Chunqing on transport infrastructure across the development. In this piece has a desert, the Loess Plateau and the Qinling mountain complex geology of land, facing the highway technology researchers in the field of extreme environment, science and technology projects for research, scientific research results into applications in another possible . 10 years developing the western region, Shaanxi Province, 13 projects were included in the development of transportation construction projects, the results rely on engineering applications in direct economic benefit of 417 million yuan generated (400 million 1 million), indirect economic benefits 97 974 (nine hundred million 8 million); project after acceptance of research results among more than 100 projects to promote the application of the direct economic benefits to 382.05 million yuan (over 400 million yuan), indirect cost 687.5 million yuan (over 700 million yuan). Enter “15″ since the highway construction in Shaanxi Province turned the main battlefield in southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi, complex and changing environment conditions, there are many new technical problems to be studied. According to needs of key construction projects, Shaanxi transport system to carry out a series of major and key technology research has achieved outstanding success. Desert Highway construction technology to fill the construction of highways in desert regions of China key technology gaps; combination Zhongnanshan long tunnel to carry out the long tunnel ventilation building, prevention, monitoring technology research, both in theory and practice a major breakthrough; loess region Set of Technology, for the first time in the country completed the loess region of integration of technology, the leading domestic level; Han River (Shaanxi Section) shipping key technology to reach the international advanced level, research results have been applied to engineering practice; and water transport by the Ministry of Tianjin shared “Mountain River waterway key technologies” by 2005 China Sea Institute of Science and Technology Achievement Award. The implementation of these projects have achieved considerable economic benefits, resource savings, greatly improved the reliability of engineering construction projects, security, and Environmental protection Nature of the national transportation technology has far-reaching impact. Of these, the “Desert Highway construction technology,” won the 2006 Grand Prize of Science and Technology of China Highway Society, 2007 Second Prize of Science and Technology of China, relying on research results obtained on the subject “Desert Highway construction Integrated Conservation Research,” was the 2007 Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Prize, Yu Jing, relying on the desert highway project was Luban. The application of these two technologies to produce nearly 600 million yuan of direct economic benefits, while greatly improved the desert region along the sand-fixing and beautifying effect, by the local government and the forestry department of environmental protection praised as “eco-road”, Social efficiency is very significant. The findings apply not only in the test section, and the full desert highway in the Yu Jing, Jing Wang Highway, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia Highway and Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang II Highway Project entity has been used for the construction of desert highway played a very important guide. Qinling King tunnel research of key technologies in the Qinling Mountains in addition to construction of highway tunnels are fully applied, many sub-topics of the research results are applied in the country. Among them, the ventilation technology research in the Xuefeng Mountain Tunnel, the new seven beam tunnel in the popularization and application; disaster prevention and rescue techniques used in domestic research has more than 50 disaster tunnel design; monitoring technology research in the “Xiamen East Channel,” “Shenzhen Western Passage” and other engineering applications; low noise slide cement concrete pavement research in Tongchuan Nanshan Mountain Ridge Tunnel, Tibet, 2,500 meters long tunnel, the combat readiness of Xiamen travel 3,000 meters long road and highway pavement in Jingan used widely.

Video Conference: Remote technology to create innovation and development – video conferencing, innov

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Article by hi joiney

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Technology and Community Development

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TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

KUMAH ERIC JUNIOR

MARCH 2009

ABSTRACT:

In today’s world, technology has invaded many aspects of human life. From its gigantic influence on our education and professional development, to the more subtle presence of little gadgets littering our homes, technology is almost everywhere.

The reasons for such pervasiveness would boil down to some characteristics that technology by itself possesses. One such characteristic, which is of major interest to many scholars, is the seeming lack of barriers to the spread of technology. It easily penetrates societies and even to remote communities, and once it reaches its destination and catches on, it becomes seemingly difficult to stop its spread. As a result of this, consumer technology like cellular phones, computers, PDAs, radios and televisions have become commonplace in places like Africa, even with all the barriers one would have envisaged.

Sadly, it does not need much analysis to realize that even though technology usage is growing rapidly in Africa, we still have numerous developmental problems in our continent. This is a situation where advanced technology is coexisting with underdevelopment in Africa. With all the power that technology wields, it will be a useful exercise to study the ways in which it can be used to solve some of those very problems it has come to meet. In essence, using our little gadgets to solve our big problems.

This is the background against which this study is undertaken. Asking whether our problems can be solved at all, then enumerating instances where development projects that utilize technology have been put to work, and concluding by examining the cases and drawing lessons from them.

CHAPTER. 1.

INTRODUCTION

The limits to what the human mind can conceive and achieve are increasing. More discoveries have been made, more things have been created, more theories have been proved and disproved, more machines have been made and more problems have been created. Scientific technology has been the driving force behind all these. Science has indeed proved to be a powerful tool which has touched many people and has shaped many communities.

According to the Concise Oxford dictionary 10th edition, technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Clearly from this definition we can see that scientific knowledge may exist theoretically but it only becomes technology when it is used in practical settings. For example we may say the knowledge of the rules of up-thrust and buoyancy is theoretical, however practical utilization of these rules to manufacture airplanes could be termed aircraft technology.

Again according to the Concise Oxford dictionary 10th edition, a community is the people of an area considered collectively, while development is explained to mean to grow or cause to grow and become larger or more advanced. By deduction, community development could be explained to be the growth or advancement of a group of people.

Today, the world has become highly technological, and things which in the seventies would have passed for science fiction are now so commonplace that they have almost become necessities. From every corner of the world, technology has global acceptance, it is ubiquitous and has the ability to dramatically change situations.

Any attempt to ascribe reasons for this pervasiveness of technology will have many suggestions, some of which are that machines have been proven more efficient than humans at some tasks, machines are less error prone, impartial and never get tired like humans. Another could be the increased sophistication of humans and the attendant need for equally complicated messengers to help us perform many tasks, which is linked to the interesting nature of technology that once a more advanced way of doing something is found, it becomes almost unthinkable to try to do it by “old fashioned” means.

With such large scale interplay of these and many more factors, there is little reason to be surprised by the sudden emergence of automatic machines to handle the little tasks of old; cleaning floors, washing clothes, cutting bread, mixing cake etc. the list goes on and on.

And that is far from all and the list of innovative possibilities is endless. In truth, some of these innovations have shaped the world and there are many examples to cite. The discovery of electricity and the radio wave both changed the world. Today, computers are changing the world even faster. Now with cellular phones, new opportunities have come and our imagination has become the only limiting factor. We can only wait for the next big thing to be created and who knows what it will be?

The picture of technological advancement is not a completely rosy one. Indeed, there are some minuses to science as well, such as the introduction of new forms of danger which come as a consequence of innovative forms of technology, for example the nuclear bomb came from nuclear technology, unforeseen genetic mutations are as the result of genetic engineering, and the numerous and little talked about chemicals which can destroy the ozone or warm the planet.

The seriousness of the disadvantages of technology have prompted some people to argue that technological advancement, which is an example of scientific development, is making us more of advanced entities but less of humans. In other words, we have become better scientists, bankers and professionals and worse human beings. Martin Luther King puts this argument succinctly when he said “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power, we have guided missiles and misguided men.”

The disadvantages that technology brings are issues which require serious examination to ascertain what can be done to eliminate them or at least minimize their effects since technology has definitely come to stay, and it would be to our advantage to learn how to work with it in ways that will be the most beneficial to us.

But despite the disadvantages listed here and the many more unnamed, we have seen that we can still derive many benefits from science and given that we live in, or at least come from, a part of the world where development is still a big headache, we should be the first to start a serious study of this phenomenon and see how best we can use it to our advantage. We may be surprised to see that there is a great viability in using our little gadgets to solve our big problems.

Let us make it clear that the aim of this paper is not to present technology as the magic cure that will clear our multitude of problems in a whiff, technology alone will not solve Africa’s problems because our problems are too complex, too deep and too overwhelming for any simplistic scheme to be successful. We can only achieve success when if have a more comprehensive approach to the problem, to include solid commitment to serious research, establishment of the appropriate structures, and the taking of required initiatives. It will be incorrect to assume that technology in itself is inherently good, and just implementing it alone will be enough to achieve any good result3. Though technology may be able to do anything, people must have the vision to drive it in the right direction.

Only with this knowledge can we make any meaningful gains in the development agenda.

In our particular context, Africa has proved that advanced technology could coexist with underdevelopment. People have satellite televisions whilst there are no teachers in the classrooms, we have mobile devices and pocket PCs and devices but our streets are still not named properly, there is still a large number of illiterates among the people who own and use cell phones, spreading of healthcare information is still a challenge even though a lot of people have access to radio and TV. This sorry list is endless.

CHAPTER 2:

CAN TECHNOLOGY REALLY ADDRESS OUR PROBLEMS?

From healthcare, access to water and life expectancy, to governance, industrialization and even the quality of human life, there are numerous problems confronting African communities.

Today we are said to be living in the information age, an era where access to information is the new driving force of the world. The proliferation of the Internet and World Wide Web has reduced the whole world to a massive audience with unprecedented access to vast quantities of information. This communication is unencumbered and the formation of alliances is unhindered by physical distance, national or political borders4. With all the dynamics that this modernity brings, technology stands tall as a favourite to achieve any meaningful sustainable development for many reasons.

Principal among such reasons is the fact that there is improved awareness of underdevelopment among Africans themselves, which could be due to the information age, and an improved belief that our situations can be turned around. This is markedly different from decades ago when there was a lot of resignation and despair among black professionals. Evidence to support this would be the observation that much more thought is being directed at the Africa integration agenda and greater attention being paid to the Economic partnership agreements (EU- ECOWAS).

Another positive indicator is the growing number of trained and competent technological professionals on the face of the continent. Granted, the improved numbers by themselves will not be a good indicator, but with the holistic approach talked about earlier, one can see a sign of hope which shows that there is very high potential for success in a well though out scheme to utilize technology to solve our developmental problems.

Another good point is the individual work that is being carried out by different groups using different approaches (studies of the indigenous chieftaincy system for e.g.) at trying to solve the same problems. This is clear evidence to state that beyond the level of commitment, there have been actual attempts at problem solving. Even if some of such attempts have not been successful due to the numerous challenges in the way, the experiences have been gained and lessons have been drawn from them which would be utilized for future use.

Finally there are areas where major strides have already been made in Africa. Statistics show for example that there have been remarkable improvements in girl student enrollments in places like Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia5. This is definitely a feather in our cap and such areas may serve as boosters to face the remaining dark spots.

All these imply that we might be closer than ever to solving our problems, and all that may be left will be a few giant pushes forward.

This is where technology comes into the picture. It is the one thing that seems to know no barriers, catches on easily and has the power to transform even the most remotely inaccessible locations on earth to budding business towns. It is ubiquitous. Its innovations accelerate by the month. As a result, it is the most probable tool to achieve anything meaningful.

In the early 90′s, scholars described Africa as being left in a technological apartheid 6. Today however, with increased globalization perhaps a slightly better picture can be painted. Even though Africa is not in the league of the innovators of the most novel initiatives and we may not be making as good use of technologies as we ought to, or as some others are, we would still have something positive to report. For example, in some cases, Africa actually has comparable human and hardware resources. Therefore, “apartheid” would no longer be a precise definition of the situation as it stands.

As stated earlier in this paper, technology alone will not solve our problems. But with very serious considerations using active participation, a comprehensive and well though out scheme that incorporates technology will be a very viable solution.

However taking a look at all the attempts made so far and their attendant challenges and effects if any, one may say confidently that will all the proper accompanying compliments, technology will made very significant gains in spurring the development agenda on.

CHAPTER 3:

HOW IS TECHNOLOGY BEING USED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS?

Across many countries around the world, people have made serious strides at utilizing technological knowledge to solve all manner of problems. Many issues have arisen out of such attempts, and below are very brief summaries of some of those places where practical scientific knowledge has been utilized for the growth of the community.

3.1 ELECTIONS

In Africa’s recent governance history, elections have always been a challenge. It is hard to find a totally free and fair voting exercise, whilst contested elections, unfair processes, non transparent irregularities and simple ineffectiveness are commonplace. With a background of poverty, it is not too difficult to understand why the stakes are so high in African politics and why power is very lucrative in this part of the world. This not withstanding however, there is a good number of unrests that could have been avoided if any election is proven to be fair, free and transparent to an appreciable degree.

Attaining this ideal degree has proved difficult for reasons of the complex interplay of some factors including, a government founded electoral commission, a winner takes all setting, and no motivation to commit to the right virtues. Knowing that power is so lucrative when you come from this winner takes all setting, it is really hard to let go of control of the electoral process. This is one motivation for the dishonourable acts that unfortunately we see quite often.

Because elections are highly involving and they require elaborate programs that span a series of locations (from a voter’s home to the polling station, the collation center, the electoral commission headquarters, the public domain and back to the voter’s home), It follows that unless you are trying to make public exhibition of your nefarious activity, you would need to be tactical to be successful at such dishonorable acts. The tactics employed may vary but they invariably entail series of acts that are designed to prevent information from getting into the public domain. So that for example, figures could be changed anytime so long as the original and authentic ones do not get into the hands of the public.

If democratic leadership were genuinely understood, there will be no attempt at election rigging. But since we are currently not in that ideal stage, election monitoring is one tool we can exploit to at least cut the ability for cheating.

Mobile phone technology is being used in election monitoring in some African countries under a new system of election monitoring called “parallel reporting”. Parallel reporting is simply an approach to election monitoring whereby independent observers spread news of the votes counted at the basic level, which is the polling station. The figures are then relayed to an independent center where they are collated and cross checked with official figures announced by the electoral commission.

One advantage of this scheme is seen that it will make it increasingly difficult for an electoral commission to attempt to fraudulently sway the results in the favour of any of the contesting parties. The spreading or relaying of the results figures are done largely with mobile phones. Senegal is an example of a country where this project has been successful.

3.2       HEALTHCARE

The statistics obtained from healthcare research are interesting. Figures show that a large number of the world’s HIVAIDS afflicted people live in Africa. At the same time, one of the growing markets for consumer electronics such as mobile devices, handheld PC etc may be found here in Africa. This represents a population overlap, and it is only prudent that some amount of research has been directed towards attempting to find ways to incorporating technology in the treatment of the numerous diseases on the face of the continent7.

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been known to be one of the deadliest diseases known to man. Apart from the threat that this highly infectious bacterial disease presents to human life, it also enjoys some additional notoriety for lowering the sufferer’s immune system to make it easy for other diseases, which may have various degrees of harmfulness, to attack the sufferer.

As if that were not enough, TB has a deadly habit of mutating at the least case of drug non adherence. Therefore any TB caregiver knows that a patient who demonstrates non compliance with drug rules is clearly not interested in getting healed. As a result of this, over the years, ways to enforce religious adherence of medication have been tried but success has largely eluded caregivers.

In South Africa, there is a very laudable project, the SimPill’s award-winning Adherence System project, which uses a real-time management system to increase adherence to medications prescribed to treat chronic illnesses – particularly tuberculosis, which is a significant cause of death of people living with HIV.

3.3       SOCIAL ISSUES

Serious projects that utilize technology to address social issues have been implemented in South Africa. One such idea named Fahamu’s Umn Yango (meaning ‘doorway’ in isiZulu) has been implemented to curb domestic violence by equipping people with cell phones as tools to monitor and report abuse. Under this scheme, victims use cell phones to call a predefined and popular number and give details of the abuse.
The fear of being victimized has always made it difficult for victims, witnesses or relatives to step up and lodge complaints to the relevant authorities. There are examples of places where people had reported abuses and had been picked upon by the abuser. We have had friends of a victim reporting an abuse of their friend only to go home to be abused themselves by their spouses as punishment for “poking their noses in other people’s business”. These good citizens were made to pay the price for exposing a wrong thing.
This fear has been totally eliminated under this project because of the provision of anonymity, the telephone call could be made in secret, and even the details of the reporter are not always required. This is a sharp contrast to the situation in the past where victims, neighbours, or witnesses were required to walk into a police station to make a formal report.

Apart from successes chalked in the number of reports that are received, there has also been a reduction in the numbers of abuse cases. This may be partly due to the deterring feeling among would-be abusers that, any passerby holding a mobile phone might just make sure they get a visit from a police detective for spouse battering.

3.4       ANIMAL FARMING

Technology has also been put to good use in farming.

Farmers who rear cattle in small herds, over time, develop a personal relationship with the animals, the farmer knows all of them and can notice a missing animal or a sick one with just a glance. However, because it takes months of careful observation of the behaviour of every cow to know every animal well enough to take note when there is an infection or when an animal does not ruminate properly, this task would be ineffective if it were performed by a human shepherd with a large herd.

To remedy this situation, the technology of vocal tags has been developed in Europe. This project employs a tag, which is a belt fitted with sensors and worn around each animal’s neck. These sensors monitor several indicators such as the animal’s rate of rumination, voice clarity, digestion and breathing and send the data collected to a central computer.

Over time the computer knows what is normal for every cow and will notify the shepherd when something goes wrong with a cow.

The advantage of this project is that a farmer can take quick and specific action like giving treatment to the particular animal involved. This removes the need to give general treatments to the whole herd, which is both time and money wasting.

These are some of the ways that technology is being used towards increased development.

CHAPTER 4

WHAT LESSONS HAVE BEEN LEARNT?

No matter how promising an idea or project sounds, there are bound to be problems encountered in the deployment of the project. In achieving the above projects, following are some of the problems one is likely to be faced with:

In the election monitoring program, misinformation has been identified to be one of the problems starring the program in the face. It is true that when all the information is not localized in the hands of government, then a lot more transparency will be achieved, but it is also true that mass misinformation remains an unpleasant possibility.

Another problem could arise when there is a situation where people do not necessarily trust the degree of independence of the so called independent observers. It may lead to a problem where parties could cast a slur on the reputation of the observers so as to use the resulting mistrust to set the stage for a possible rejection of the results.

Overall this is a laudable idea and if a means of verification were added, the figures would mean much more to a lot of people.

Whilst celebrating the successes chalked, it is important to note that a number of other factors needed to progress before a state could move towards a more democratic model of governance. According to African political expert, Sheldon Gellar, these changes include: strengthening independent media, growing and ensuring freedom of civil society, decentralizing power, ceding more control to local governments, empowering women and improving judicial systems to ensure independence and power to punish.

Governance is one area that is set to reap some benefits of this phenomenon when used judiciously, unilateral rule and arbitrary action may be reduced towards a more participatory approach to leadership in Ghana

Technology could help achieve those goals to some extent, as communication was the key to overcoming oppression.

In some of the cases, such as the election monitoring or domestic violence reporting, the internet could be used to provide communities with means to communicate, to organize and obtain good information which is not controlled by the government. However, this is not practical in Africa since only a tiny percentage of Africans have affordable access to internet.

In the healthcare project, basic mismanagement has been identified as one of the reasons why many projects seem to skid to halt after being piloted. Needed funds are not always available to those who need them.

Another problem observed was that the people who will be using the project are not always consulted in the designing and planning of the ideas, so there is a lack of communication between beneficiaries, health professionals, technologists, and managers.

Another problem was the theft of cell phones. Although cell phones are a relatively low-cost technology, they still hold considerable value in poverty-stricken areas, and are commonly stolen. And, such theft is likely to rise as these devices become more and more complex. However this is quite debatable since some analysts argue that losing a cell phone to a thief is less of a financial loss than losing a more costly machine.

In the domestic violence project one stumbling block was the communication gap between the various parties involved in the system. Feedback was largely missing and people could not tell whether their input was useful – or received, and in some cases, police officers who receive messages reporting violence against women may not be prepared to respond.

Another problem was the unfortunate situation where some unscrupulous people made the work more difficult for the authorities by raising false alarms. This could be addressed by education and the incorporation of punitive measures.

However to use effective punitive measures, even more advanced technology will be required, for example to pinpoint a particular cell phone subscriber, and take action against them like blocking their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Cards etc.

And the usual problem of financing in many projects is ever present as well, and it is the more predominant one in the animal rearing project.

CHAPTER 5

CONCLUSION

Granted, there are challenges that exist in using technology to achieve development goals, but such efforts still hold great potential and the costs of any obstacle will not stand in comparison to the threat of underdevelopment and poverty. So we can only strive to work harder at such solutions.

Our development attempts and efforts should think more seriously about sustainability and scalability. One important consideration in this direction is the affordability of the programmes we plan and develop. The more affordable options have a higher chance of success, so the fact that most of the development projects do not require any extraordinarily complex or new gadgets is indeed pleasant to note.
Also throughout the creation and deploying of any project, enough consultation should be carried out to ensure that there is a general buy-in into the idea from the creators to the beneficiaries. This will make an idea command a common sense of ownership.
The quality of the management should also be improved and measures should be put in place to ensure the right things are done.

Identifying the problem is half the solution. We already now have greater awareness and we have made some attempts at solving them. Putting our acts together to draw the lessons and re-strategizing with a new approach -technology, is definitely the way to go. I am confident of the viability of this new approach.

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Great Plains Development: Dexterity, Vba, Econnect, Sql ? Highlights

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Microsoft Dynamics GP, current version 10.0 as of June 2008 is pretty flexible platform if you are looking for modifications, custom modules programming, add-ons and extensions. As many mid-size ERP GP has multiple customizing tools and you have to get some excurse into each one of them to select the best in your situation. Before rushing into modifications overview, please think through the fact, that GP is owned and supported by Microsoft Dynamics subdivision (former Microsoft Business Solutions) and as such you should expect it to be tightly linked with such Microsoft technologies as .Net, MS SQL Server, MS Office, Sharepoint, SRS (or SQL Server Reporting Services). Plus, you should know the history of GP design – it was originally designed by Great Plains Software in earlier 1990th with popular shell IDE and programming language approach: Great Plains Dexterity (compare to SAP ABAP or Navision C/Side – shells were believed to resolve computer platform dependence). Now is the time to review:

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3.       VBA. This customization option typically comes together with Modifier Module. In essence Modifier exposes GP screens as old-good-days OLE server. Modifier uses Dex forms, however it is not obvious to VBA developer, until he or she has to refer to GP objects descriptions: tables, forms, variables

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Runtime libraries in the context of Website development services

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:54:50 +0000

When the software development world is well versed with the concept, use and importance of a runtime library, the website development services cannot afford to stay ignorant or even ignore the term and its meaning. A runtime library is integral to custom web development, as any custom web page development most of the times implies proper source code development in PHP,ASP, VB, DOT NET et al to achieve a particular web application or feature.The task of websites development invariably involves web programming in varying extent depending upon the complexity of the project. Accordingly varies degree of relevance of runtime library between websites development projects. To elucidate, the concept of runtime library is different than a standard program library. A runtime library is always a custom-built library keeping a particular platform and compiler in mind. A runtime library is for the use of the compiler to translate a specific source code into target machine language during the execution of the program in question. It basically implements functions that are integral to a programming language but cannot be incorporated in their target elaborate form within the source code, or otherwise the code will become too large to handle. Runtime library contains these compiler-specific functions to be implemented during runtime of the program. The functions implemented inside the runtime library are generally not available to the application programmers and are for compiler use only. These functions may generally include all input, output and memory management functions. The constitution of a runtime library depends upon the manufacturer of the relevant compiler and may either be a part of the standard library or be the larger body containing the standard library. The runtime library has an important role to play as it is where the runtime-specific functions are performed that decides eventual effectiveness and accuracy of a program. Logical errors, checking for arrays, dynamic nature of checking, exception handling and debugging etc. are some instances of runtime bound functions that determine the proper functionality of a program and are implemented inside the runtime library only.

Sun Softwares Offers Professional Software Development

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:34:43 +0000

Sun softwares is a Mohali based IT Company with its offices in US, Netherland and Canada. The company was started in 1999 with the aim to provide world class IT and software development services to its customers. Company has clients mainly from US, Canda, Europe and Australia with more than 70% software exports to US. Company started with 5 employees and today is has more than 500 employees around three difference offices. Today, Sun Softwares is considered to be one of the fastest growing IT companies in the region. Sun-softwares provide wide range of services like software development, software development consulting, software development outsourcing, SEO, web design, web development, E-marketing and ORM etc.

Sun softwares are one of the leaders in software development industry to turn your software ideas into a certainty. The software products the company offers can save the valuable time and resources of organizations. Sun Softwares provides a range of products and services that are stable, reliable, and affordable.

Professional at Sun-softwares are highly experienced and trained in there field of expertise. Employees are given timely training both in house and through other certification courses to keep them updated on the latest IT technologies being used. The company believes in focusing on Customer Satisfaction as its top corporate values. The main objective of the company is to exceed its growth goals while establishing long-term relationships with its valued clients.

Professional at Sun-softwares are highly experienced and trained in there field of expertise. Employees are given timely training both in house and through other certification courses to keep them updated on the latest IT technologies being used. The company believes in focusing on Customer Satisfaction as its top corporate values. The main objective of the company is to exceed its growth goals while establishing long-term relationships with its valued clients.

In order to know in detail about the various innovative software products that Sun softwares offers log visit www.sun-softwares.com

A Brief Overview on Ruby on Rails Development and its Various Features

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 08:45:46 +0000

Ruby on Rails is the most popular web application development framework written using Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails often called RoR or Rails is an open source web development framework and an object oriented programming language that helps to develop simple, complete and powerful web applications with rich interactivity and functionality.

RoR is developed using the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern and it is favourite among Ruby on Rails developers because of its philosophy of CoC (Convention over Configuration), DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), and close association with the agile development methodology. The main advantage of using Ruby on Rails is the agile nature of development, what takes months on other platforms, takes only week to develop on Ruby on Rails.

Ruby on Rails was first extracted from Basecamp by David Heinemeier Hansson in July 2004 and it is really easy to deploy web solutions using Rails as it works well with a wide range of web servers.

Some of the features which have driven Ruby on Rails a popular framework amongst the open source developers’ community are:

1. Applications are developed faster using simple methods using less code.

2. Integrates Perl’s pragmatism, Smalltalk’s conceptual elegance, ease to use from Python and learning concepts.

3. An open source Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications.

4. Easy to deploy web solutions using Rails as it works well with wide range of web servers and databases that implement CGI or Fast SGI.

5. Supports databases like MySQL, SQL, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle and helps the Ruby on Rails programmers to create the applications better and user friendly.

6. No compilation phase required.

ROR supports rapid application development due to which it is gaining popularity day by day. Ruby on Rails web development helps the rails developers to be successful in building robust and elegant applications in a more efficient and less troublesome way.

Rating Sites Development with ASPDOTNET

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:11:07 +0000

Rating people, their skills, their abilities, their look, etc. are very old activity in human being history. It goes date back in 19th century that people used such rating system. The best use of rating system found in field of research. Another hot field was beauty contest and models rating. During 1990s C-band satellite channel had broadcasted a rating program ‘Perfect 10′. They featured only women who ranked 10 for attractiveness. These contests became popular throughout 1990s.

There are plenty of types of parameters for rating but most used types of rating sites are as follows:

Business Rating Sites: When you are searching actively for some products or services you will use business rating sites. Yelp is big name in this category. You will find top five listing coming from the Yelp when you run a search in Google or Yahoo! People like to review their experiences or feeling for particular product or services on Yelp and like sites. Shopping, restaurant, health, food, entertainment, etc. categories are available.

Movie Rating Sites: People like to see best movie in doing so they need information regarding to movie. There are many ways to get more information on movies and movie review sites are probably one of the best ways to do that. You can get instant idea whether specific movie is great just by looking at its ratings and if you are interested in more detail information you can read movie reviews done by users. Rotten Tomatoes, The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Blippr Movies, Yahoo Movies, etc are best movie rating sites.

Book Rating Sites: Books are still read a lot, not only printed but digital too. Book rating sites allow people to rate, recommend and receive recommendations for books. You will find the classification of books based on plot, setting, character, and writing style.

Product Rating Sites: Product rating sites are biggest in nature. They vary according to the types of product. Some sites rating based on consumer satisfaction, price ranges, after sales services, etc.ConsumerReports.org is one of the examples which covers products from small scale to big scale industries. Cnet.com gives rating and reviews of products.

Game Rating Sites: Gaming is one of the big industries itself. People like to play games give it rating and some reviews about it. Some games are free while some are too expensive therefore, before buying looking at rating and reviews helps a lot. IGN.com, Gamespot.com, etc. are good sites for rating and reviews.

Wine Rating Sites: Wine rating sites allows visitors to easily rate wines and find wines based on rating, price or place sold (restaurants, bars, wine bars, liquor stores, grocery stores, etc.). It then lists wines rated by others, selectable by wine type. WineApe.com, weinplus.com, etc are good wine rating sites.

Apart from these kinds of rating sites there are plenty of types available for rating categories. But all rating sites are not perfect in themselves. Many sites lack features that can prevent multiple rating from the same users. However there are no guaranties that genuine users are giving rating, for instance RateMyProfessors.com gives rating for school or college professors but we can’t say that always students giving rating not other professors.

Now you may have question that which technology is appropriate for such big scale websites development. ASPDOTNET is a technology that can be used to develop rating sites development. It has all features available to make a success for such kind of development. It is platform independent as well as multi-language supporting platform that let you build your application in any language. It is dynamic language so support dynamic page generation for rating sites. It is server side scripting thereby enhance the performance at user level. ASPDOTNET Development may be the final answer for the development of rating sites.

Great Plains Custom Development: Dexterity, Econnect, Sql, Vba and Modifier

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:17:46 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics GP programming and software development is typical as GP ERP system itself is for wide variety of businesses: manufacturing, shipping & receiving, warehouse management & logistics, project organization, non-profit to name few popular. Great Plains has large number of horizontal and vertical solutions, often referred as third party modules or add-ons, however in some scenarios to tune standard logic or develop small in-house modification to GP is more feasible. To give you a flavor of what GP customization is, let’s review tools and scenarios:

1.       GP Dexterity modifications. Dexterity is the architecture of Great Plains Dynamics today and also at the time when Dynamics was just born – earlier 1990th. Dex has its own programming or scripting language – Sanscript and it has Integrated Development Environment, where Dex programmer do their software coding job. Dex customizations were very popular since the introduction of Great Plains and they are equally popular nowadays. Dex mods are seamlessly integrated into GP user workstation and security realm. If you are Microsoft Visual Studio C# or VB .Net programmer, then you should review eConnect and its customization options, as we assume that learning curve to get Dex programming skills might be too long and less desirable

2.       eConnect. At the SQL Server side, eConnect is in essence the collection of encrypted stored procedures, in one or another way imitating original Dexterity logic. This technology allows GP integration to be designed and called from eCommerce application, for example: creating master records (customer, vendor, project, GL account, etc.) and so-called work transactions (SOP invoice, POP receipt, Payroll transaction for instance)

3.       SQL stored procedures. This approach was typically extending Dexterity in the past, prior to eConnect introduction. When eConnect was introduced around 2004, then SQL programmer was encouraged to call eConnect stored procedures versus developing new ones from scratch. However there are a lot of areas where direct SQL coding is feasible, especially if it is very simple integration, or where eConnect logic is not available (yet).

4.       VBA and Modifier. This is traditional tool, related to OLE technology days and still popular and powerful today. It works like that – you add new buttons or fields to existing GP screens with Modifier and then you append VBA scripts often with ADO logic to access GP tables to add business logic to new object