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New global research reveals an astonishingly passive approach to website performance

Member 9726046 — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:39:00 GMT

New Delhi, May 21 2013 - Research has shown that even minor delays to website response times can have a sizable impact on customer satisfaction, page views, conversion rates and site abandonment[1]. Despite this, an astonishing percentage of organizations (32%) do not or don’t know if their website is monitored on a 24x7 basis. That’s according to an independent global research study undertaken by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by Borland, a Micro Focus company (LSE: MCRO.L).

Proving that many organizations still haven’t got the basics covered since the birth of first generation websites in the mid 1990s, a shocking 26% of CIOs from 590 organizations across the globe admitted they are not or don’t know if they are monitoring response times for mission-critical transactions. These include transactions such as shopping cart and database record retrieval on their websites. Financial services, retail and media, leisure and entertainment companies all confess to poor figures given they would typically have large scale e-commerce transactions, with 23%, 24% and 25% respectively.

80% risk customer experience and satisfaction
When it comes to trouble-shooting:
• 72% of respondents confirmed they are not always alerted at the first sign of a problem on their web services

• 80% are not always able to resolve a problem on their web services before a customer becomes aware of it. From a sector perspective, media, leisure and entertainment companies and financial services organizations are the worst culprits, with 90% and 87% respectively

The situation is even worse for web apps on mobile
• 34% of CIOs are not tracking how quickly their own website loads on mobile devices and 36% are not tracking how quickly their web application loads on mobile devices

• That’s despite the research respondents confirming they would only wait an average of seven seconds before abandoning a website due to lack of responsiveness

Testing and preparing for heavy traffic peaks is poor
Although 79% of CIOs are conscious of the events that drive peak traffic volumes, such as seasonal events or holiday periods, 44% do not simulate website performance with heavy load testing to see if they can handle the increased pressure on their websites. This is compounded by a communication breakdown between marketing and IT departments:
• 69% of CIOs are not made aware of their marketing department plans well ahead of schedule, which means they can’t plan for and test to ensure optimum website performance

• 73% of respondents are not always made aware of specific launches before they happen

Archie Roboostoff, Borland Solutions Portfolio Director, at Micro Focus, said: “Users have very little truck with poor performing websites today so these insights are pretty astonishing. 88% of online visitors are less likely to return to a site after a bad experience[i] so taking a passive approach to website performance is a massive risk to reputation, and for e-commerce sites, revenue too. It just goes to show that a solid performing website is still a competitive advantage, and that any company delivering an equally good web experience on mobile is likely to win the customer retention and acquisition battle.”

Nitin Dang, Country General Manager, Micro Focus, India and SAARC, said: “With the patience level of consumers declining with each step forward in technology, it is now becoming vital for businesses to ensure they test their websites on multiple platforms. With the trend demanding online presence, putting in the groundwork for robust performance is crucial to offer a rich and seamless experience the customers and in turn take full advantage of peak shopping periods through the year. The Silk product set are an easy to use, full functional set of interfaces (clients), which enables you to perform automated functional testing in a variety of development environments and programming languages. They are an efficient, cost-effective way to ensure your mission-critical applications meet performance expectations and service-level requirements.”

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Notes to Editors
The independent research survey was undertaken by Vanson Bourne in February 2013. It covered 590 IT decision makers in nine countries including UK (100), France (100), Germany (100), USA (100), Brazil (100), Australia (35), New Zealand (15), Hong Kong (15) and Singapore (25). The respondents were from mainframe organizations with 501+ employees, covering multiple industry sectors.

Of the respondents, 56% have both a ‘main’ and a ‘mobile’ version of their website, while 43% have a single site serving both mobile and traditional browsers.
To download an overview of the research, please click here.

About Borland

Originating in 1983, Borland Software Corporation is a world-class provider of requirements, test and change management solutions. As part of Micro Focus Ltd, a member of the FTSE 250, Borland offers tools that are open, agile and work across the entire Application Development Lifecycle to enable customers to build better software, faster. For additional information please visit www.borland.com.

To find out more about the Borland Silk product set visit: http://www.borland.com/silkportfolio.
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Visual Studio 2012 Support is Added for Aspose .NET & SSRS Components

sherazam — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:48:00 GMT

Many of our users use Visual Studio to speed up development and help organize their code. It’s a flexible development platform, and version 2012 adds tools that improves agile development and helps testing in Windows 8. All Aspose .NET and SQL Server Reporting Services products can be used with Visual Studio 2012. Developers can now use Visual Studio 2012 to work with Microsoft Word and other word processing formats from inside their own applications for creating, manipulating and converting documents independently of Microsoft Office Automation using Aspose.Words for .NET. They can also work with Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet file formats in their own applications and can create, manipulate and convert documents without needing Microsoft Office Automation using Aspose.Cells for .NET. Aspose.Cells for .NET lets you automate reports and work with external data sources, create and export charts and work with formula. Developer can also work with Adobe Acrobat PDF files without relying on Adobe Automation. Aspose.Pdf for .NET lets you create and modify PDF files: concatenate or split files, add digital signatures, save pages to image format and more. Moreover, Developers can now use Visual Studio 2012 to work with Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation formats using Aspose.Slides, can manipulate Microsoft Visio files using Aspose.Tasks, can generate and recognize a large number of 1D and 2D barcodes using Aspose.BarCode, can Work with Microsoft Outlook, from emails to contacts and appointments using Aspose.Email as well as can Draw, manipulate and convert images using Aspose.Imaging. Recognize characters from entire images or specific areas using Aspose.OCR and many more advance features in their own applications.

About Aspose

Aspose offers a powerful set of file management components with which developers can create applications which can open, edit, create and save some of the most popular business file formats. Supported formats include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, and Microsoft Project files. Tools allow developers to perform OCR, work with images, create and read barcodes and perform many other document conversion and management tasks. Aspose produce components for .NET, Java and SharePoint, as well as rendering extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports exporters.

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WSO2 Vice President of Technology Evangelism to Present Webinar on Participating in Open Source Communities

Member 9795673 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:39:00 GMT

WSO2 webinar on May 30, examines how IT professionals can take advantage of open source communities to optimize the success of their projects

Palo Alto, CA – May 21, 2013 – Open source software (OSS) communities provide a vast range of benefits. They empower developers to enhance their personal brand, increase business opportunities, fill important open source project gaps, and optimize the success of their projects. To help IT professionals realize these advantages, WSO2 Vice President of Technology Evangelism Chris Haddad will present a webinar examining ways to actively participate in open source communities.

The one-hour technical session, "10 Ways to Start Participating In Open Source Communities," will be held Thursday, May 30, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Pacific. For more information, visit http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2013/05/10-ways-start-participating-open-source-communities.

In the webinar, Chris will explore how IT professionals can transition from an OSS consumer to an open source contributor, and he will examine how contributing to open source development can help build a developer’s personal brand and career. He then will review 10 actions IT professionals can take to start participating in open source communities. Chris then will conclude by highlighting specific opportunities within the WSO2 and Apache OSS communities.

Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of technology evangelism, works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Jelastic Launches New Version of Its Innovative Java and PHP Hosting Platform

SoftPressRelease — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:31:00 GMT

Jelastic, Inc., today announced the launch of a new version of its ultra-scalable cloud hosting platform. The new version, Jelastic 1.9.1, features a CRON scheduler, the ability to schedule database backups, and the latest versions of software stacks (including PostgreSQL 9.2.4).

Jelastic offers a fundamentally new approach to Java and PHP hosting: no need to learn custom systems or recode applications in order to deploy. Jelastic is the first cloud platform that can run and scale any Java or PHP application without any code changes.

The newly launched Jelastic 1.9.1 has a number of new features and improvements.

- Regulating the sequence of balance charging
- Config manager improvement
- PostgreSQL 9.2.4 support
- CRON Scheduler
- Scheduling backups for end user DBs
- Cutting database tables
- Notification about running out of resources (Mem, Disk, CPU)
- NetBeans IDE Plugin
- Generating direct URL for solution deploy
- Software Stacks Versions

Users of Jelastic 1.9.1 get access for each node configuration files and can choose to configure all the servers together or just a specific one.

Dmitry Sotnikov, Jelastic COO said, "Jelastic 1.9.1 features CRON scheduler, which allows users to schedule jobs to run periodically at certain times or dates. They can also run programs at a specified time with a help of scheduler, which receives instructions and performs any tasks following derived scenarios. Users can also backup databases or specific tables right from the configuration files. Jelastic assures that all data is being saved periodically and can be restored or reused."

Another new feature of Jelastic 1.9.1 is a notification about running out of resources. When the traffic grows an application requests more resources for normal work. If the limits selected are too low, this can lead to the failure in the app performance. For such cases the notification about running out of resources is implemented.

Now even more software stacks are supported including PostgreSQL 9.2.4 which provides:

- synchronous and cascading replication
- unlogged tables, per-column
- collations, and much more

The PosGIS module has also been enabled. It is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.

Jelastic 1.9.1 is already available through a selection of web hosting providers world-wide. To see the list of partners, please visit http://jelastic.com/partners or sign up now for free at http://jelastic.com.

Release notes for 1.9.1 can be viewed at http://jelastic.com/docs/release-notes-191

About Jelastic

Jelastic, Inc. is based in Palo Alto, California, and offers a PHP and Java hosting platform for application designers, developers and web hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) offering designed especially for web hosting companies to deploy and offer to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java and PHP applications and allocates server resources, thus delivering true next generation Java and PHP cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at http://jelastic.com.

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Load MS Project Template (MPT) Files & Enhanced Gantt Chart Rendering

sherazam — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:00 GMT

What’s new in this release?

We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 5.4.0. With this month’s release, Aspose.Tasks for .NET now supports loading Microsoft Project Template (MPT) files which enable users to create project from constructor using template as parameter. Now Project’s constructor can be used to create project from templates and read existing projects as well, avoiding usage of ProjectReader. In this month’s release, we have added enhancements to the Gantt chart rendering by providing the option to roll up Gantt bars that marks any summary task in the project by its visible subtasks. In addition, we have also provided the facility to avoid marking non-working time on Gantt chart. The rendering process has also been enhanced to allow printing/hiding of legends on each page. We have also added additional task constraints in this month’s release which include StartNoEarlierThan, FinishNoEarlierThan, MustStartOn, and MustFinishOn task constraints. Loading Microsoft. This month’s release also includes a number of bug fixes related to XML output, where unnecessary data was present as compared to the output by MSP, identifying external tasks, incorrect duration while rendering Gantt chart, and custom fields. Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.

Microsoft Project MPT templates support.
More options in Gantt Chart Image rendering
Project Rendering option without Legends on Each page in new Rendering Technique
Add support for different types of TaskConstraints.
Difference in percentage calculation (resource allocation and task completion) when date = 'NA' in constraint
Some unexpected elements in XML output.
Export to XML by Aspose.Tasks differs from export by MS Project - some extra data was added.
[CustomAttributes] enhanced reading some attributes from MPP
[Gantt Chart Rendering] Duration field returns incorrect data is fixed
[Custom Fields] Cost field ignores point '.' from decimal values is fixed
External tasks cannot be identified by IsExternalTask property of Aspose.Tasks.Task
Custom fields of date type that uses lookup table does not returns date value
Project Reading Exception while reading the MPP file
Could not retrieve Enterprise Custom Fields information from 2010 MPP

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET
Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.
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Customer Success with Aerospike Leads Marie-Anne Neimat to Join as a Company Advisor

Member 9795673 — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:47:00 GMT

Neimat’s pioneering roles at Oracle and TimesTen with in-memory relational databases will help Aerospike drive the next generation of hybrid in-memory and flash databases

Mountain View, CA – May 20, 2013 – The big data discussion is shifting to “fast data” as more companies seek to harness the unprecedented volumes of information being generated at high velocity via Web, social and mobile interactions and sensors. These businesses are rolling out new applications that respond immediately to what people, devices and systems are doing now. In turn, this is driving the demand for a new class of highly distributed in-memory databases that also are optimized for fast, stable flash-based storage.

In the wake of this fast data wave, Aerospike, Inc. (http://Aerospike.com) has attracted in-memory database pioneer Marie-Anne Neimat to join the real-time database company as an advisor. Ms. Neimat co-founded TimesTen, Inc. the first company to develop and commercialize an in-memory relational database. Most recently, she served as vice president of engineering for three of Oracle’s databases, including TimesTen, which Oracle acquired. Bringing a track record of database innovation and deep insight into CIOs’ demands, she will play a strategic role in helping Aerospike to build on its technology leadership and rapid market adoption.

The Future of Fast Data in Production Today
Already, customers (http://www.aerospike.com/why-aerospike/customers/) have the enterprise-grade Aerospike real-time hybrid DRAM and flash memory database (http://www.aerospike.com/performance/architecture/) in production supporting fast data applications within some of the world’s most data-intensive environments. These companies’ real-time big data platforms rely on Aerospike to consistently respond within milliseconds, even while scaling to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second (TPS) and managing billions of objects and terabytes of data—all with 100% uptime.

“The ubiquity of smart devices is heralding a new era of fast data where the value of applications lies in the ability to sense and respond to Internet-scale data in real time. However, it is also challenging databases to cost-effectively and reliably deliver speed at scale,” Ms. Neimat observed. “Aerospike is at the forefront of the database revolution in addressing this challenge with a unique hybrid memory approach and scale-up/scale-out architecture that is deployed at dozens of Internet-scale sites today. I’m excited to join the Aerospike team in building on this tremendous momentum.”

Joining Forces With In-Memory Database Innovator
Marie-Anne Neimat was at Oracle Corporation where she most recently served as vice president of development for three database products: Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Oracle Berkeley Database, and Oracle NoSQL Database. Prior to joining Oracle, Ms. Neimat was co-founder of TimesTen, Inc. the first company to develop and commercialize an in-memory relational database. There, she served as vice president of engineering and board member, and in 2004 she was recognized on the Fast Company Fast 50 list of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. TimesTen, Inc. was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Prior to founding her own company, Ms. Neimat worked at HP Labs where she managed several database research projects. Ms. Neimat holds a BSC in mathematics from Stanford University and a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. She holds several patents and is the author of many publications in refereed conferences and journals.

“It is a deep honor to have Marie-Anne join us as an advisor. With her roles in leading in-memory database design at Oracle and TimesTen, she brings valuable insights into the data demands facing CTOs today, and a track record of success in growing database adoption,” said Bruce Fram, Aerospike CEO. “With Marie-Anne joining Don Haderle, father of IBM DB2, and Roger Sippl, Informix founder and Silicon Valley pioneer, we have an incredible advisory board with an unmatched breadth and depth of experience. These advisors, along with the technology rock stars driving our database development, are solidly positioning us to lead the fast data revolution being fueled by the Internet economy.”

About Aerospike
Aerospike, Inc. offers the only real-time Internet-scale database that delivers predictable high performance for mission-critical applications. Aerospike’s hybrid memory (DRAM and native flash) architecture scales up and out, consistently processing over 500k transactions per second per node with sub-millisecond latency. With automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization, the Aerospike database reliably stores billions of objects and terabytes of data—while providing 100% uptime and 17x better TCO than other NoSQL databases. Customers accelerating their business with Aerospike include adMarketplace, Bluekai, Chango, eXelate, Federated Media, The Trade Desk and [x +1]. For more information, visit http://Aerospike.com.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

WSO2 CTO to Present Tutorial on Extending Cloud Capabilities at Cloud East 2013

Member 9795673 — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:40:00 GMT

Session will use an open source enterprise DevOps PaaS example to highlight support for multi-tenancy, elasticity, polyglot language support, and lightweight containers

Palo Alto, CA – May 20, 2013 – Increasingly, the cloud platform or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is the top choice of middleware as IT professionals seek complete platforms that can scale from a single instance to running complete enterprise applications as a service. WSO2 today announced that WSO2 Co-founder and CTO Paul Fremantle will present a comprehensive PaaS approach at Cloud East 2013 conference in a tutorial entitled “Stratos and App Factory.” The Cloud East 2013 conference will be held May 24, 2013 at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge, UK.

Taking Advantage of an Open Source PaaS
The tutorial is aimed at cloud developers and architects looking to use PaaS and extend cloud capabilities within or across organizations. Paul will review the WSO2 Stratos open source Java PaaS foundation (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratos/) and its evolution, including core principles and approaches. He also will provide an overview of the forthcoming WSO2 App Factory open source DevOps PaaS (http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory/) (currently in beta) and examine how it adds continuous integration and application lifecycle management to WSO2 Stratos. Paul will combine demonstrations with hands-on information to explain how to use WSO2 Stratos and WSO2 App Factory to create a development and runtime PaaS. Additionally, he will discuss key capabilities they provide, including support for multi-tenancy, elasticity, polyglot language support via "cartridges", and lightweight containers using Linux Containers (LXC). The session will be held on Friday, May 24, 2013, from 1:00-1:45 p.m., at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge, UK.

About the Presenter
Paul Fremantle is WSO2 co-founder and CTO, vice president of the Apache Software Foundation Synapse Project, and co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee. Recognized by InfoWorld as a Top 25 CTO, Paul has played a pioneering role in open source development, beginning with the original Apache SOAP project where he donated code to enable access to Enterprise JavaBeans. Paul also led IBM’s involvement in the Axis C/C++ project. In addition to publishing numerous articles, Paul has authored two books, Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition and The XML Files.

About WSO2 Stratos
WSO2 Stratos is the industry’s first foundation for implementing a PaaS that combines support for heterogeneous applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform runtimes with native, secure multi-tenancy. Designed to be independent of the underlying infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it can run on any cloud infrastructure, including VMware, Eucalyptus, Amazon and OpenStack. WSO2 Stratos runs all 13 cloud-ready middleware products that comprise the award-winning, 100% open source enterprise middleware platform. As a result, IT organizations have the flexibility to deploy the same middleware on servers or in public, private or hybrid clouds.

About WSO2 App Factory
WSO2 App Factory is a multi-tenant, elastic and self-service enterprise DevOps platform that enables multiple project teams to collaboratively create, run and manage enterprise applications. It is built on WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Stratos, and it integrates with popular software development and operations offerings, such as Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Bamboo, Jira, FindBugs and JUnit, to name a few. Combining complete application lifecycle management and PaaS capabilities, WSO2 App Factory makes it possible to develop, test, deploy to production and retire applications with a single click. Its user-friendly storefront also makes it easy way to discover and consume applications and APIs.

About Cloud East 2013
Cloud East is East of England's leading conference on cloud computing and NoSQL for cloud and data practitioners. The event has a strong, practical focus on helping IT professionals best take advantage of their cloud, NoSQL and data technologies. The conference is organized by Software Acumen, based in Cambridge, England, who runs free and paid-for events for the software community; focused on sharing real-world, practical experiences, while encouraging networking and fun. For more information, visit http://www.cloudeast.net/ce2013/index.php.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Resize Shape Height/Width of Visio Diagram & Better Shape Connectivity

sherazam — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:00 GMT

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET 3.2.0.This version will allow you to resize the shape height and width. The connector line automatically adjusts when the shape is moved to a different position. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes and enhancements reported earlier. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

Redraw glued connectors when child shape is moved and connector is a part of group shape.
Redraw glued connectors when child shape is moved and connector is a separate shape.
Redraw glued connectors when group shape is moved.
Create methods to change height and width for shape without master.
Create methods to change height and width for shape with master.
Create methods to change height and width for group shape.
Keeps connectors glued when simple (not group) shape is moved.
Research possibility to move connectors when child shape(as part of group) is moved
Out of Memory exception occurred during VSD to PNG conversion.
Aspose.Diagram for .NET 3.0.0 is generating incorrect results with its .NET Framework 3.5 library is now fixed
During VSD to PNG conversion, shapes and rectangles are missing only with .NET Framework 3.5.0 is now fixed
Changing height and width of the shape is enhanced.
Aspose.Diagram now allows the connectors to move around the child shape when it is moved.
Aspose.Diagram.DiagramException, when method GluedShapes is called from child shape which is a part of a group shape is fixed

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Diagram for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Diagram for .NET

Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure .NET alternate for MS Visio Object Model.It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files on ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It makes use of the advanced functionality of Visio's services to manipulate Visio docs on a server. Developer can open files & manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills, to more complex elements, and then export to native Visio formats or XML.

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Slide Notes, Export to PPTX & Third-Party Customization Support Added

sherazam — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:22:00 GMT

What's New in this Release?

We are pleased to announce the long awaited release of Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 4.8.0. In this new release we have introduced support for third-party customization. Now, you can add slide notes and even add custom images as logos for generated presentations. For more details about this feature, please read about customized rendering. We have also addressed some table rendering issues in this new release. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

Allow third-party customization of rendering results
Images inside table cells are improperly rendered is now fixed
Border object created around slide when multiple objects are placed in a List
Cell's height is greater than defined in report definition is fixed
Borders exported with different line width is resolved
Images missing is fixed when exporting to PPT/PPTX presentation
export to PPTX issues are resolved
Setting CanGrow property to False now affect the exported table
The dotted border line overlapping by image in table cell is fixed
Bullets missing in rendered presentation is fixed
Tablix border lines visibility for table cells is fixed
Top and bottom margins are different from what is defined in the report is fixed
The bullets rendering with left-aligned text is resolved
Chart borders are drawn as separate rectangles around the chart area is now fixed
Exporting to PowerPoint 97-2003 format displays white borders around each is resolved in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services

Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services (SSRS) is a rendering extension for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008 Reporting Services (32-bit and 64-bit) to generate reports in Microsoft PowerPoint PPT, PPS, PPTX and PPSX formats. All RDL report features including tables, matrices, charts, images, sub reports, groups and lists are converted with the highest degree of precision to PowerPoint presentations or slide shows. It creates presentations on the server without utilizing Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Australia

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Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Typemock CEO: Software Development Without Unit Testing is Reckless

manny6 — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:17:00 GMT

Tel-Aviv, May 16, 2013 – Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of automated unit testing solutions held a corporate event to celebrate eight years since its founding. CEO Eli Lopian addressed the gathering and laid out his thoughts on the necessity of unit testing in software development: “Any software programmer that does not do unit testing is a reckless coder”, declared Lopian. “Unit testing is an essential part of any software development process. It allows you to deliver working code, with fewer bugs, faster. Typemock has made huge advances with its automated unit testing tools in the past eight years. The old arguments that unit testing is too hard no longer apply!”

Lopian noted that Agile Software Development has become widely accepted in recent years, but that some programmers still insist that unit testing is not an integral part of the Agile process. Lopian argues this point: “Without unit testing you may think you are Agile, you may be running fast but you are not healthy, you won’t be able to keep up to speed. Sooner or later, you, or even worse: your customers, will start finding bugs which will compel you to introduce changes to what is now legacy code - without any tests to show you what you’ve done wrong. In today’s hyper-competitive market, corporations cannot afford the resource and time drain of having to re-write their entire code every few years due to code decay.”

Lopian predicted that in the coming years all software will be developed with unit testing. He hopes the change will come from industry-made regulations similar to ISO, so that “software safety standards” will be in place. “As a developer myself, I have a dream”, Lopian ended, “that programmers will take the leap and become agile – really agile! This means not being afraid of legacy code, this means being proud of the software they've created, and this means building usable and sustainable code for millions of users. All this is within everyone's reach right now – with unit testing”.

About Eli Lopian
Eli founded Typemock in 2004 and serves as its CEO. A well-known figure in the agile and test driven development (TDD) arenas, Eli has over 17 years of R&D experience at large companies such as AMDOCS (NYSE:DOX) and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In his previous roles, prior to founding Typemock, Eli was responsible for optimizing the development process and led the transformation of the development environment to support efficient processes and tools.

About Typemock
Typemock was conceived in 2004 to help programmers become agile through easy unit testing. Since the launch of the first version of Typemock Isolator in 2006, thousands of companies around the world use Typemock tools to make automated unit testing easy and to prevent bugs. Typemock users are developers from a wide range of sectors – such as defense, medical, and finance – that demand exceptionally high standards of quality and minimum bugs.

Typemock is a privately funded company.
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New WSO2 White Paper Explores Solution Architecture for Modernizing Big Data Analytics Within the Government Intelligence Community

Member 9795673 — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:47:00 GMT

White paper from WSO2 examines how to optimize the storage, management and analysis of big data using open source tools that are established and well vetted

Palo Alto, CA – May 16, 2013 – Today, commercial organizations are storing, retrieving, analyzing and exploiting large and disparate data sets, which are often geographically dispersed and subject to extraordinary security measures. As a result, the global IT industry has evolved powerful tools to optimize the storage, management and analysis of big data. For many valid reasons, military and civilian intelligence communities (IC) in the United States have been slow to exploit these tools, despite collecting orders of magnitude more information than ever. A new white paper from WSO2 examines how IC executives, CIOs and acquisitions managers can apply lessons learned by commercial IT organizations in using open source big data solutions to maximize organizational capabilities, mitigate analyst workloads, achieve more accurate and rapid intelligence analysis, and foster widespread adoption—all while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) over time.

The white paper, “Managing Big Data for the Intelligence Community,” explores the nature of the big data problem facing the intelligence community. The paper examines the existing tools the IC has developed to handle intelligence collection, data ingestion, transport, storage, analysis and exploitation. It then explores the leading big data challenges facing the intelligence community and why IC executives and CIOs are re-examining their roadmaps for existing tools. The paper concludes by offering architects and developers a cost-effective prototype solution architecture for managing big data, which enables a timely implementation and is based on modern, established open source data management and analytics tools that are established and widely adopted.

The paper can be downloaded at http://wso2.com/whitepapers/managing-big-data-for-the-intelligence-community.

About the Author
Adam Firestone is WSO2 director of defense and government solutions. In this role, he works across the scope of the WSO2 team to understand and craft technology solutions that address the unique challenges facing today’s military, intelligence and government organizations. A former US Army officer and defense industry IT executive, Adam has led the design and development of critical weapons and command and control systems, as well as spearheading the integration of open source software and principles within the defense enterprise. He recently was awarded the Historic Breechloading Smallarms Association’s 2012 President’s Cup and Gold Medal.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Email Conversion to MHTML, ICS Files Processing & PSTs Creation are Enhanced

sherazam — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:33:00 GMT

What’s new in this release?

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Email for Java 2.9.0. As Aspose.Email for Java is autoported from its equivalent .NET version, any new feature implemented in the .NET version is available automatically in the ported Java version. Aspose.Email for Java 2.9.0 now supports adding contacts, notes, tasks, calendar, and journal items to PST files in the same way as messages are added to PST. We have also fixed a number of bugs, reported earlier by our valued customers and users, in this month’s release. Issues related to email conversion to other formats such as MHTML, saving image from a VCard, processing ICS files, creating PSTs with a large number of email messages, saving attachments from message using stream and some exceptions. The main bug fixes added in this release are listed below

Adding MapiContact, MapiNote, MapiTask, MapiJournal and MapiCalendars to PST file
Exception "java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException" raised with utf-7 string decoding is fixed
Exception "UriFormatException was unhandled" raised for ICS file is fixed
Outlook 2010 Received Date column set to NONE for PST created from AE 2.8.0
EML to MHTML conversion - accentuated characters now displayed properly
FormatException while loading the ICS file is now fixed
EML meeting with no Recipients conversion to MSG gives ArgumentNullException is now fixed
German special characters not handled properly while converting MSG to MHTML format is now fixed
Issue with long encoded MailAddress display name is resolved
Scanpst reports errors for a PST created with Aspose.Email are fixed
Encoding problem resolved while rendering messages to mhtml format
Message that was extracted from PST file with PersonalStorage.SaveMessageToStream loses attachments is now fixed
Saving photo data from VCard gives ArgumentException was now handled
Chartset porblem when saving EML is fixed
Issue resolved for reading message Exception while extracting messages from PST

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Email for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Email for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview:Aspose.Email for Java

Aspose.Email for Java is a Non-Graphical Java component that enables Java applications to read and write Microsoft Outlook documents without utilizing Microsoft Outlook. It enables developers to create new MSG file from scratch, update an existing MSG file, read Outlook MSG file & get it's properties like subject, body, recipients in to, cc and bcc, Adding or removing attachment, sender information and MAPI properties. Aspose.Email for Java can be used with Web as well asDesktop Application.

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Etteplan | Tedopres and MadCap Partner to Enable Single-Source Publishing of Simplified Technical English

Member 9795673 — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:13:00 GMT

Launch of Etteplan | Tedopres HyperSTE Plug-in for MadCap Flare Empowers Authors to Write STE Content Once and Deliver it in the Format and Language of Readers’ Choice

La Jolla, CA, USA and The Netherlands – May 15, 2013 – MadCap Software, Inc. and Etteplan Oyj’s Dutch subsidiary, Etteplan | Tedopres, have entered a strategic partnership facilitate the authoring of content in Simplified Technical English (STE). Etteplan | Tedopres is the maker of HyperSTE, best-in-class quality assurance software for standardized documentation. MadCap Software is the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS. Through their partnership, the companies are delivering HyperSTE for MadCap Flare, MadCap’s flagship software for multi-channel, single-source publishing of content to print, Web and mobile devices.

Realizing the STE Advantage
The Simplified Technical English specification provides guidelines for authoring clear, concise documentation. This clean, standardized approach to writing has enabled multi-national companies to trim their translation costs by up to 30%. At the same time, the concise style is tailor made for the smaller screens of mobile devices. As a result, STE is rapidly gaining adoption by companies seeking to optimize how they deliver content to their customers, partners and employees.

HyperSTE from Etteplan | Tedopres supports STE content development by providing rich, comprehensive functionality for checking content grammar, terminology and style. It is now available as a plug-in for MadCap Flare, the only software that lets authors create a single project and then directly publish it in multiple formats optimized for the Web, mobile devices, desktops, and print publishing. Additionally, the native XML architecture and support for Unicode and right to left (RTL) languages in Flare facilitate the ability to translate content into a broad range of languages. Using HyperSTE and Flare together, authors now have a powerful platform for developing content in STE once and then delivering it in the format and language of readers’ choice.

“Hand-in-hand with the global adoption of MadCap Flare and a rapid rise in the use of our software for multi-device publishing, we are seeing greater interest among our customers for the ability to author content in Simplified Technical English,” said MadCap Founder and CEO Anthony Olivier. “Through our partnership with Etteplan | Tedopres, we can now provide authors a fully integrated solution for standardizing their vocabulary and styles to further improve consistency, eliminate ambiguity, and reduce the complexity of their content—while ensuring compliance with corporate terminology and style guide rules. “The innovation of HyperSTE in ensuring quality STE content provides a powerful complement and natural extension to our cutting-edge Flare software.”

"MadCap Flare is in use at our company as well as at many of our customers where it has proven to be a comprehensive, state-of-the-art tool for creating and publishing content across multiple channels and facilitating translation into other languages,” said Berry Braster, marketing and sales director of Etteplan | Tedopres. “We immediately saw the synergies of partnering with MadCap to combine the power of our HyperSTE software with Flare to provide an integrated solution for delivering feature-rich STE content.”

About Etteplan
Etteplan provides engineering services and technical product information solutions to global industrial equipment manufacturers. Etteplan is specialized in improving the efficiency of engineering and product development processes as well as improving the competitiveness of products in all stages of the product life cycle. The results of the innovativeness and technical competence of our experts can be seen in numerous industrial solutions and everyday equipment.

Etteplan is one of the leading engineering companies in the Nordic countries and the biggest and oldest Nordic service provider in China. Etteplan’s engineering units in China provide cost-efficient and high-quality engineering services and technical product information solutions to local and global companies.

Etteplan is a Finnish public company employing almost 1,800 experts in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and China. In 2011, Etteplan had turnover of EUR 119.4 million. Etteplan's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd under the ETT1V ticker.

For more information, visit: www.etteplan.com, www.tedopres.com

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About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a leading technical communication software firm specializing in integrated applications for end-to-end content development, delivery and management. MadCap’s software products provide state-of-the-art content workflow solutions for multi-channel publishing, including the Web, print, desktop and mobile. Through its strategic partner Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), MadCap delivers solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and the .NET environment. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the documentation industry. Learn more about MadCap Software at www.madcapsoftware.com.

MadCap Software, the MadCap Software logo, MadPak, MadCap Flare, MadCap Mimic, MadCap Capture, MadCap Lingo, MadCap Analyzer, and MadCap Contributor are trademarks or registered trademarks of MadCap Software, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. Other marks are the properties of their respective owners.

WSO2 Director of Product Management to Speak About the Benefits of a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise DevOps Platform at Open-IT Summit 2013

Member 9795673 — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:53:00 GMT

Presentation will examine how to take advantage of a cloud-enabled enterprise DevOps platform to collaboratively create, run and manage applications

Palo Alto, CA – May 15, 2013 – WSO2 today announced that Isabelle Mauny, WSO2 director of product management, will deliver a presentation at Open-IT Summit 2013. The session, “Adopt a DevOps Cloud Factory and Improve Delivery,” is part of the event’s Case Studies How to/Best Practice track on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The Open-IT Summit conference is being held May 22-23, 2013 at the Berlin Exhibition Center in Berlin, Germany.

The Benefits of a Cloud-Enabled Enterprise DevOps Platform
Increasingly, enterprises are seeking to harness the cloud to extend their business capabilities across a connected ecosystem of suppliers, channel partners, distributors and customers. This session will explore how to optimize application delivery by adopting a shared, multi-tenant and elastic enterprise DevOps platform as a service (PaaS) (http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory/ ) based on open source software and open standards. Additionally, it will examine how this platform enables an agile, on-demand application development environment that helps transform business IT management.
• Time: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
• Location: Berlin Exhibition Center, Hall 6.3

About the Presenter
Isabelle Mauny, WSO2 director of product management, leads the WSO2 Madrid office and focuses on enhancing the company’s middleware products, platforms and solutions to maximize customer value. Isabelle brings more than 18 years of technology, consulting and management experience in Java, application development, middleware, and SOA, through her roles at IBM and Vordel. Additionally, Isabelle is a published author and regular speaker on the topics of system administration, application development, and programming.

About Open-IT Summit
Open-IT Summit aims to highlight aspects of sustainable value creation through open forms of collaboration. The showroom and conference will bring together leading European open IT providers, suppliers, users and developers, focusing on top-of-mind open IT issues, including cloud, big data, infrastructure, and case studies. The event will take place alongside the conference facilities of LinuxTag 2013, considering the different needs of the open source and open IT community. Additionally, Open-IT Summit will host a themed lounge for face-to-face meetings with open IT experts and a networking pit to extend business opportunities. For more information, visit http://www.open-it-summit.de.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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IEC61131 PLC Automation Programming and Simulation Visualization Source Code Kit for C/C++, .NET

kellyonlyone — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:53:00 GMT

IEC61131 PLC Automation Programming and Simulation Visualization Source Code Kit for C/C++, .NET
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Size Reduced for Images in PDF & Performance Boosts for Many Features

sherazam — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:13:00 GMT

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Words for .NET & Java (13.4.0) has been released. This month’s release includes contains a massive 154 improvements to Aspose.Words, including several big performance boosts and interesting new features. The amount of memory required to render a document has been reduced by more than 20-30%. Rendering of images to PDF improved by approximately 25% when saving with JPEG compression. The size of images stored in PDF files generated by Aspose.Words has been reduced in many cases. Duplication of images could sometimes occur in some situations. This issue has been resolved and file size improved in these cases. In this release Aspose.Words introduces support for digitally signing DOC and DOCX documents. A digital signature adds an extra layer of protection to a document and ensures that the document content has not been tampered with. This feature adds an “invisible” signature to the document, which is not to be confused with a signature line which is a digital signature accompanied by a normally handwritten signature image. With this release Aspose.Words can now detect the compliance of a loaded OOXML document and resave the document using the correct compliance. This avoids the document being saved to the wrong specification and unexpected compatibility warnings. The list of most notable new and improved features in this release are listed below

Improved memory performance for large documents (now code uses ~20% less memory for 1Gb+ documents)
DOC and DOCX document can be signed with digital signatures, also signatures can be removed;
3D color for VML extrusion effect is supported
Improved performance of PDF rendering of documents with Jpeg images
DML Charts enhancements: surface charts rendering, moving average trend lines rendering and more
Supported rendering of revisions
Improved pagination of footnotes
Implemented character paragraph indents
Fixed positioning of a table broken across pages when it has repeated header rows
Improved table row wrapping around floaters
Fixed issue with Arabic-Indic numerals inside SDT
Aspose.Words allows to write OOXML documents that do not cause Compatibility Mode when opened in MS Word 2010-2013
Support XAML (Flow document).
Digitally sign a DOCX document
Digitally sign a DOC document
Support surface chart rendering.
Parapragh Tight Wrap property now preserve on re save the document
Docx to HTML conversion issue with Paragraph rendering is resolved
/revision marks/ Hidden text becomes visible in PDF
Text wrapping is changed from "Square" to "in line with text" in output Doc/Docx
/revision marks/ Revision formatting and comments are not preserved in PDF
Support AlternateContent upon reading charts for rendering.
Force LoadFormat during document load
Add another Automation to Aspose migration tip to the docs
Support band formats upon rendering surface charts.\
Support rendering of Linear trendlines.
Support rendering of Moving Average trendlines.
Review the blog release for the dashboard
Add the release to the downloads module
Include dashboard in the MSI and add prompt the user to open at the end of the installer
Add dashboard to dlls only zip for all products
Remove .sh file to register Aspose.Words.dll on Mono
Remove existing demo code from the installer
Feasibility study // Avoid reconvertion of non-JPEG images for texture brush.
Line AutoShape causes Aspose.Words to hang during rendering
System.InvalidCastException throws while converting from RTF document to other file formats
Avoid using fonts during rendering checboxes.
Size of images is changed after open/save the document.
File size is increased two times after open/save the document.
Support transparency in WMF emulated by SRCPAINT and SRCAND raster operations.
VML // Shape shadow effect rendering
Text inside textbox is cropped during rendering is now fixed
Position of Textbox is incorrect after converting to DOCX
Investigate whether we can decrease memory usage upon rendering documents.
DML linear gradient brushes should use transformation matrices instead of angle.
/page vertical alignment/document to pdf conversion, image lose its position is fixed
while converting doc to pdf, image properties now available
Pdf page count is greater than input Word document, after converting doc to Pdf
DOC to PDF conversion issue resolved; All pages not exported to PDF
Document text out of position is fixed, While saving Word document in Pdf format
While doc to Pdf, footer image rendering is fixed.
While converting Word document to Multipage Tiff image, first image missing is fixed.
TextBox is hidden while rendering is fixed.
Docx to PDF conversion issue resolved with tables
Doc to PDF conversion issue resolved with left margin
Doc to PDF conversion issue resolved with Text field's text
Work out a useful way to avoid running into Compatibility Mode when saving OOXML and opening in Word 2010
Docx to Html conversion issue resolved with text position
Text is misplaced after conversion from Doc to Pdf is fixed
Improve work with brushes upon rendering charts.
Complete and release the offline examples dashboard
Unexpected vertical border line appears besides characters in Html is fixed
Errors with math symbols when converting .docx to .pdf on Ubuntu is fixed
Table Width Changed Issue resolved in Html2Doc2Html
Font is incorrectly imported from HTML is now fixed
Two tables are joined into one
One of the tables incorrectly reads into model
Content is imported as a single Paragraph
Text contents misplaced while conveying from Doc to Fixed file format
HTML to Doc conversion issue resolved with Paragraph Left Indent
Open and Save HTML file lost Left Indentation of Paragraphs
XPS printing issue resolved with text at physical printer
Shape's z-order is corrected in HTML export.
Create infrastructure for compliance info gathering during OOXML document loading
Failed assertion in BorderGrid.AddCell()
Word 2013 now respect zoom level set by Aspose.Words
Add support of 3D color to extrusion effect.
Add support of gradient brush scale.
Incorrect tab width when list aligned tab occurs after another tab
Shadow for shapes with broad stroke differs from MS Word 2013 result
Line width is now considered during applying extrusion effect
Support Z-Axis labels rendering.
Improve drop lines rendering for 3D line charts.
/footnote balancing/ Docx to PDF conversion issue
Line chart is rendered as smooth but should be rendered as straight lines.
Font of text inside WordArt Shape is now corrected in PDF
Update links to Aspose site in shortcuts created by the installer

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Words for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Words for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Words for .NET

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET applications to read, write and modify Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, TOC updated/rebuilt, Embedded OOXML, Footnotes rendering and support of DOCX, DOC, WordprocessingML, HTML, XHTML, TXT and PDF formats (requires Aspose.Pdf). It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. You can even use Aspose.Words for .NET to build
applications with Mono.

More about Aspose.Words for .NET

Homepage Aspose.Words for .NET
Homepage Java Word Library
Download Aspose.Words for .NET
Download Aspose.Words for Java
Demos for Aspose.Words
Online documentation of Aspose.Words
Post your technical questions/queries to Aspose.Words Forum
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Phone: 888.277.6734

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WSO2 Director of Defense and Government Solutions to Present Government PaaS Case Study Keynote at Cloud Computing East 2013

Member 9795673 — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:51:00 GMT

Presentation will examine how a governed cloud-based distributed system can effectively manage diverse developer groups across government organizations

Palo Alto, CA – May 14, 2013 – A governed cloud-based distributed development environment helps connect program managers and information assurance professionals with developers to facilitate application development. This enables software acquisitions program managers across government organizations to control and field applications both locally and remotely. WSO2 Director of Defense and Government Solutions Adam Firestone will examine the impact and benefits of this approach in his keynote presentation at Cloud Computing East 2013. The event runs May 19-21, 2013 at the Marriott Boston Copley Place in Boston, MA.

Adam Firestone will present his keynote examining governed platform as a service (PaaS) on Monday, May 20, 2013. The session is part of the event’s Cloud Computing for Government gCLOUD© Track, which focuses on government cloud computing deployments. In his talk, Adam will identify classic programmatic risks associated with distributed development teams and rapidly evolving information assurance requirements, and he will explain how a governed PaaS-based distributed development environment mitigates these risks. Adam then will explore how this architectural approach empowers program managers to effectively manage projects with multiple developer organizations and reduce the time and cost associated with the certification of traditional and mobile application development in the government sector.

About the Presenter
Adam Firestone is WSO2 director of defense and government solutions. In this role, he works across the scope of the WSO2 team to understand and craft technology solutions that address the unique challenges facing today’s military, intelligence and government organizations (http://wso2.com/whitepapers/the-revolution-in-military-affairs-2-0-information-dominance-and-the-democratization-of-information-technology). A former US Army officer and defense industry IT executive, Adam has led the design and development of critical weapons and command and control systems, as well as spearheading the integration of open source software and principles within the defense enterprise. He recently was awarded the Historic Breechloading Smallarms Association’s 2012 President’s Cup and Gold Medal.

About Cloud Computing East
Cloud Computing East 2013 is a strategic business summit jointly presented by the Cloud Computing Association (CCA) and the Distributed Computing Industry Association. The conference will focus on these three major sectors, including government, healthcare, and financial services, whose use of cloud-based technologies is revolutionizing business processes, increasing efficiency and streamlining costs. The Cloud Computing East 2013 speaking faculty will be made up of over 100 thought-leaders who will bring broad industry knowledge, technological savvy, and strategic insight. For more information or to register, visit http://www.cloudcomputingassn.org/events/T1301/overview.html.

About the DCIA
The DCIA is an international trade organization, established in 2003, with more than one- hundred industry-leading member companies, including software developers, broadband network operators, and content providers. The DCIA conducts working groups, oversees political initiatives, and publishes the weekly online newsletter DCINFO. To learn more, visit http://www.dcia.info.

About the CCA
The CCA is an independent membership organization, founded in 2012, dedicated to building a community of end-users and service providers of cloud-based solutions and products through individual professional memberships and industry conferences. The CCA has quickly amassed a contact list of three-hundred thousand industry participants. For more information, visit http://www.cloudcomputingassn.org.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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PDF to DOC, XPS, PNG Conversion & Improved PDF Printing & Text Extraction

sherazam — Tue, 14 May 2013 05:04:00 GMT

What's New in this Release?

The latest version of Aspose.Pdf for .NET (8.0.0) has been released. This release includes better support for existing file manipulation. This new release has specific improvements for PDF printing, PDF to DOC, XPS and various image format conversions. We have also focused on watermarking, text extraction, PDF compression and bookmarking functionalities. Please note that we recently introduced an Examples dashboard which contains code examples for Aspose.Total for .NET products. From this release, the Examples dashboard is part of the product installer. So once you have installed this new version, you can find the Examples dashboard in the Examples folder in Aspose.Pdf for .NET’s product installation directory. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

Disable paging in PDF document
Update Validate(..) method to take Stream object as an argument
Examples dashboard with Aspose.Pdf for .NET
Cell Text Wrapping issue in Table Row is fixed
PDF to PNG conversion issue is resolved
Complete text is now extracted from PDF file
Using unicode characters in TOC
Unable to extract/get page number information regarding bookmarks
Pdf printing now working printing images
PDF to PNG: Conversion process hanging is fixed
Image rendered as black while converting Pdf to JPG is fixed
Printing halting is resolved for indefinite time
While printing using PdfViewer, data missing in footer is fixed
Opacity property of FreeTextAnnotation is now working
PDF to XPS: resultant file is now corrected
PDF to DOC: Bullets and frame container missing is fixed
OptimizeResources(), error message is fixed when viewing resultant PDF
FreeTextAnnotation contains multiline international characters, result is broken
Multi-page table rendering properly is fixed
Error fixed while concatenating PDF files
Watermark is now being added to PDF document
Checkboxes appearance is fixed on first page footer and remaining pages
All output PDFs are of the same size as input PDF
How to embed and extract blank data in XMP
While filling a richtextbox field, line break tag in XML not working
Unable to clear Keywords property is now fixed
Process hanging is fixed while converting Pdf to Tiff
Aspose.PDF 7.8 is showing missing dependency error is now fixed
PDF concatenation, bookmarks are now being included in resultant file
Concatenate attached Pdf files is now fixed
Assemblies referenced in Aspose.Pdf for .Net 7.8.0 but missing in build is fixed
Multiline TexboxField now honor new line
Textfragment now implementing Bold and italic fontstyles simultaneously
Different footer on last page of PDF file is resolved

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Pdf for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Pdf for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf is a .Net Pdf component for the creation and manipulation of Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Create PDF by API, XML templates & XSL-FO files. It supports form field creation, PDF compression options, table creation & manipulation, graph objects, extensive hyperlink functionality, extended security controls, custom font handling, add or remove bookmarks; TOC; attachments & annotations; import or export PDF form data and many more. Also convert HTML, XSL-FO and MS WORD to PDF.

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Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465

Aerospike Named Lightning Round Winner for Big Data Track for TiEcon 2013

Member 9795673 — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:24:00 GMT

Aerospike recognized for its leadership among peers and game-changing technology behind the Aerospike real-time Internet-scale database

Mountain View, CA – May 13, 2013 – Aerospike (http://Aerospike.com), provider of the real-time Internet-scale database, today announced that it has been named one of the Lightning Round winners for the Big Data track of TiEcon 2013. Lightning Round winners are recognized for their leadership among their peers and their game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Aerospike and other Lightning Round winners will be honored at TiEcon 2013 on Friday, May 17, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

“We realized that Internet-scale consumer services would lead the big data-driven application revolution. So we built our NoSQL database for speed at scale, with hybrid DRAM and flash memory and maximum reliability through self-managing, automated cluster technology,” said Srini V. Srinivasan, Aerospike founder and vice president of engineering and operations. “We are honored to be named a Lightning Round winner at the prestigious TiEcon event. It recognizes our groundbreaking approach and proven success in mission-critical Internet-scale deployments.”

“To honor the startups that are showing signs of early success and huge potential for success, TiEcon has created a new category of Lightning Round winners who will have the chance to pitch their stories to the full Big Data track, comprising of investors, industry executives, prospects, analysts and media,” said R. Paul Singh, co-convener of TiEcon 2013.

Aerospike is a powerful, mission-critical NoSQL database (http://www.aerospike.com/performance/architecture/) for real-time big data applications. The Aerospike Hybrid (DRAM and Flash) Memory System™, Aerospike Smart Clusters™ and Aerospike Cross Data Center Replication (XDR) capabilities implement an architecture that is ACID, in production for more than three years with zero downtime, processing tens of terabytes of data and 30 billion transactions per day with 2-3 millisecond reads/writes while meeting a 99.9% service-level agreement (SLA).

TiEcon is TiE's premiere annual event and is the largest conference for entrepreneurs in the world. TiEcon 2013 offers full day tracks on three of the hottest industry verticals of Big Data, Mobility and Software Defined Infrastructure on May 17th, 2013. The second day of the conference, May 18th, focuses on issues of entrepreneurship including how-tos, Women, Youth, Professional Services, Global and Social Entrepreneurship.

To check out the full list of Lightning Round Winners, visit http://tiecon.org/announcing-the-2013-lightning-round-winners. For more information on TiEcon 2013, visit www.tiecon.org.

About TiEcon
TiEcon is the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with loyal participation from top technology companies, leading venture capital firms, and global service providers. TiEcon 2012 attracted 3,000+ attendees from across the world—including CEOs of established companies to first-time entrepreneurs creating new companies, to leading investment professionals and corporate executives. TiEcon was listed by Worth Magazine in their September 2011 issue to be among the 10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship along with TED and the World Economic Forum. For more information on TiEcon, visit www.tiecon.org.

About Aerospike
Aerospike, Inc. offers the only real-time Internet-scale database that delivers predictable high performance for mission-critical applications. Aerospike’s hybrid memory (DRAM and native flash) architecture scales up and out, consistently processing over 500k transactions per second per node with sub-millisecond latency. With automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization, the Aerospike database reliably stores billions of objects and terabytes of data—while providing 100% uptime and 17x better TCO than other NoSQL databases. Customers accelerating their business with Aerospike include adMarketplace, Bluekai, Chango, eXelate, Federated Media, The Trade Desk and [x +1]. For more information, visit http://Aerospike.com.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Add Linked OLE Object Frame to Slide & Presentation Rendering to PDF

sherazam — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:39:00 GMT

What's New in this Release?

The long awaited version of Aspose.Slides for Java (7.3.0) has been released. In this new release we have introduced the long awaited feature of linked OLE frames. Please visit our documentation section for further information and code examples.. We have also improved the performance of Aspose.Slides for Java in terms of rendering to PDF and thumbnail generation. Some presentation cloning issues have also been addressed in this new release alongside presentation corruption issues. Some important new feature improved features and bug fixes as given below

Write capability for linked OLE objects
Chinese font’s text rendered as blocks in the generated PDF is fixed
RADAR chart changed to bar chart is fixed
Cloned presentation opened as blank slides in PowerPoint 2007 is resolved
Highlighted text and bullets text improperly rendered is fixed
Chart labels overlapping issue is resolved
Slide background color changes is fixed in generated PDF
Value is too large exception on exporting presentation to PDF
Spaces lost is fixed when extracting slide text
Presentation repair message appears when presentation is saved using OutputStream is fixed
Exception resolved on loading presentation
Wrong text wrapping is fixed in Debian environment
The right to left text inside the presentation is improperly rendered in generated PDF is fixed
Arrows rendering is now corrected on thumbnails
The right to left text inside generated thumbnail is improperly rendered
Presentation repair message on cloning slide with in presentation
Spaces lost on saving presentation is resolved
Presentation repair message on saving the presentation using Aspose.Slides
Text missing in generated PDF is now fixed
The wrong text rendered is fixed in the generated PDF for empty text holder
The image missing is resolved in generated PDF
Presentation Repair message pops up on removing the slide from presentation is fixed in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Slides for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.

Overview: Aspose.Slides for Java

Aspose.Slides is a Java component to create, read, write and modify a PowerPoint document without using Microsoft PowerPoint. It supports PHP applications and provides all advanced features for managing presentations, slides, shapes, tables and supports PPT, POT, POS PowerPoint formats. Now you can add, access, copy, clone, edit and delete slides in your presentations. It also supports audio & video frames, adding pictures, text frames and saving presentations as streams or SVG format.

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Contact Information

Aspose Pty Ltd

Suite 163, 79 Longueville Road

Lane Cove, NSW, 2066

Australia

Aspose - Your File Format Experts

sales@aspose.com

Phone: 888.277.6734

Fax: 866.810.9465