May 2008 - Posts
What is the LCDS?
The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments—as well as Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia. Register to download the free LCDS release, then start creating your own e-learning courses today!
•Register to download the free LCDS tool
What does the LCDS offer?
With the LCDS, you can:
•Develop and deliver content quickly, while it is timely and relevant.
•Distribute your content via the Web or in a learning management system.
•Deliver Web content that conforms to Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 1.2, and which can be hosted in a learning management system.
•Upload or attach your existing content. (LCDS supports multiple file formats.)
•Choose from a wide variety of forms for authoring rich e-learning content.
•Develop your course structure and easily rearrange it at any time.
Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks intended for use by developers who build complex, enterprise-level applications. Enterprise Library is used when building applications that are typically to be deployed widely and to interoperate with other applications and systems. In addition, they generally have strict security, reliability, and performance requirements.
The goals of Enterprise Library are the following:
- Consistency. All Enterprise Library application blocks feature consistent design patterns and implementation approaches.
- Extensibility. All application blocks include defined extensibility points that allow developers to customize the behavior of the application blocks by adding their own code.
- Ease of use. Enterprise Library offers numerous usability improvements, including a graphical configuration tool, a simpler installation procedure, and clearer and more complete documentation and samples.
- Integration. Enterprise Library application blocks are designed to work well together or individually.
These are typically rationalized through:
There will be a webcast in June 2008 giving an overview of the new features of Enterprise Library 4.0. You can find more detail on the Enterprise Library landing page.
What's New
This release of Enterprise Library includes the following:
- Integration with the Unity Application Block
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 2.0 support and improved instrumentation
- Performance improvements (particularly, in the Logging Application Block)
- Pluggable Cache Managers
- Visual Studio 2008 support
- Bug fixes
Note: existing public APIs (v3.1) are still supported.
Links
VIA : Mike Walker's Blog
Welcome to the developer preview of the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. The Yahoo! Internet Location Platform provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. Our purpose in creating the Internet Location Platform is to provide the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world's geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral manner.
The Internet Location Platform is designed to facilitate spatial interoperability and geographic discovery; users can traverse the spatial hierarchy, identify the geography relevant to their users and their business, and in turn, unambiguously geotag, geotarget, and geolocate data across the Web.
Getting Started
- Get an Application ID
- Read the online documentation
- Fire up a web browser or your favorite scripting language and explore the world
read more here Yahoo developer Network
a wonderful explanation about the error message: “Login failed for user ''. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.”
read it here SQL Protocols
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