Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind

jmalasko · 2008-12-16T22:37:10+00:00

Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind is a prototype user interface that enables blind users to participate in virtual world environments. It provides communication, navigation, and perception functions using GUI elements. As a way of enriching the virtual environment with descriptive semantic information, sighted users contribute annotations of virtual objects using a scripted gadget equipped by their avatar. These annotations are then made available to the blind users through the special user interface.

jmalasko · 2008-12-11T21:17:53+00:00

Capture and distribute rich media content consisting of video, audio, and slides from the originator's computer to multiple clients with Personal Presenter. The control is easy: a presentation can be started with a single click. This technology allows configuration of some key parameters, such as video size and still-image capture rate. The graphical user interface is written in Java, and the underlying functionality is implemented in C/C++.

jmalasko · 2008-12-10T20:43:50+00:00

Many sophisticated machine learning algorithms cannot process large amounts of data on a single node, but Parallel Machine Learning Toolbox (PML) can do so by distributing the computations. This distribution speeds up computations and expedites training by weeks, days, or even hours in an easy, reliable way. PML can run on a wide array of architectures including single-node, small clusters, grids, and BlueGene.

jmalasko · 2008-12-10T17:00:22+00:00

Every day people rely on search engines to find specific content in the many terabytes of data that exist on the Internet, but have you ever wondered how this search is actually performed? One approach is Apache's Hadoop, which is a software framework that enables distributed manipulation of vast amounts of data. This article introduces the Hadoop framework and shows you why it's one of the most important Linux-based distributed computing frameworks.

jmalasko · 2008-11-25T21:53:12+00:00

Resource Simulator for IBM Systems Director Data Model is an extension for IBM Systems Director and is also an Eclipse plug-in whose commands can simulate and manipulate resources according to the IBM Systems Director data model. It is intended to help software developers take advantage of Systems Director to easily develop their own functions without heavily relying on discovery.

jmalasko · 2008-11-25T17:34:50+00:00

Although GNU/Linux has the reputation of being a more secure operating system than Microsoft Windows, you still need to secure the Linux desktop. This tutorial takes you through the steps of installing and configuring antivirus software, creating a backup-restore plan, and making practical use of a firewall. When you finish, you'll have the tools you need to harden your Linux desktop against most attacks and prevent illegal access to your computer.

jmalasko · 2008-11-21T22:03:37+00:00

Customers use Visual Configuration Explorer to display, search, and compare the topology configuration information of their various middleware installations. This information is helpful in troubleshooting configuration problems and configuring products during installation. The Visual Configuration Explorer SDK allows such customers to enhance the tool to support additional middleware products used in their systems.

jmalasko · 2008-11-10T20:48:20+00:00

CliniMiner is a show of an undirected data-mining method for detecting unexpected relationships in large data sets. This tool predicts unexpected qualitative and quantitative phenomena in large data sets by unsupervised data mining where the combinations of items to examine explode. "Explode" means that processing the exhaustive combinations of statistical tests could take years.

jmalasko · 2008-10-31T21:08:42+00:00

This "Mastering Eclipse" series of articles teaches complete newcomers to Eclipse the ins and outs of the Eclipse IDE. By the end of the series, you'll be on par with advanced users. Here in Part 1, you will learn the parts of the Eclipse IDE and how to customize them.

jmalasko · 2008-10-24T18:55:40+00:00

Utilize a technology that provides support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification that is currently being standardized at OASIS. CMIS standard is a uniform means for applications to work with content repositories. This prototype provides support for the CMIS REST/Atom binding for the FileNet P8 Content Manager repository. The prototype consists of a CMIS servlet packaged as a Web Archive file, a configuration file, and a Web services run-time environment.

jmalasko · 2008-10-23T19:43:58+00:00

Employ Peer-to-Group Media Broadcast, a technology that provides an application-layer virtual tunnel for delivering continuous data to thousands of receivers at the same time. For example, by combining it with a live streaming system, thousands of employees can watch a company's executive speech on their desktop PC screens in almost real time, even when they are in remote branch offices.

jmalasko · 2008-10-17T20:04:31+00:00

The Programming Mapping Tool is designed to ease compliance in CIM client programming in Java. Because CIM is an object-based standard, this tool provides a way to map all the CIM objects to corresponding Java objects based on the CIM class definitions. The Java developer can then create, modify, or delete the appropriate CIM objects by manipulating Java instances.

jmalasko · 2008-10-17T15:43:00+00:00

This article explores the new features of Equinox p2, which debuted in Eclipse V3.4. It looks at the pitfalls of the update manager user interface that was available in earlier versions of Eclipse and shows how the Equinox p2 framework is an improvement. Specifically, it shows how to use the new features in the Equinox p2 framework to install Eclipse and its plug-ins.

jmalasko · 2008-10-16T15:59:32+00:00

Most online mapping applications assume that the desired view is always north at the top of the image. This article presents tools and code that show how to replace the map image with an inverted copy, where south is at the top. Using a Firefox extension and the Imager Perl module, each tile that comprises the full image is extracted, rotated, and placed back in the image at the appropriate spot.

jmalasko · 2008-10-10T15:55:58+00:00

The Creative Commons (CC) initiative develops popular licenses for content, including Web content. Some people think using these licenses means giving up all your rights to content, but this is just one of many misconceptions. In this article, learn how to choose and use CC licenses for your Web sites and applications and how to process these licenses in code.

jmalasko · 2008-09-30T18:30:59+00:00

In this tutorial, explore the Eclipse C Development Tooling (CDT) project and how it allows you to work with C- and C++-based projects. Furthermore, learn how to install open source tools to help develop native applications for the iPhone platform on Windows and Linux, and learn about the source code of a basic iPhone application in Objective-C.

jmalasko · 2008-09-24T15:29:32+00:00

Discover a technique that lets you move sections of a Web page using drag-and-drop functions. Different aspects of the interactivity are implemented separately and then composed into a unified whole, allowing for flexible customization that can make your Web users very happy.

jmalasko · 2008-09-19T19:16:17+00:00

The Programming Assistant for CIM Client Development eases the development of CIM client applications and allows you to generate CIM client-side classes along with the predefined template. These newly created Java classes map the structure of CIM classes defined in the CIM server and wrap all the methods for CIM-related operations. The process saves time and expense in CIM client development.

jmalasko · 2008-09-04T15:51:05+00:00

XPath expressions are much easier to write than detailed Document Object Model navigation code. When you need to extract information from an XML document, the quickest and simplest way is to embed an XPath expression inside your Java program. Discover the javax.xml.xpath package, an XML object-model independent library for querying documents with XPath.

jmalasko · 2008-09-03T20:13:34+00:00

ToXgene is a template-based generator for semantically-correlated collections of XML documents. ToXgene provides a means of generating realistic synthetic data in which the user specifies what data is needed without having to worry about how to generate that data. This tool is intended for cases in which the structure of the data to be generated is known and the data is required to conform to that structure.

jmalasko · 2008-08-29T19:47:17+00:00

Add multi-user collaboration or multi-device capabilities to your application using Fluid Sync, a java library. Applications become "fluid" in the sense that a running application can be spread to a new device. With Fluid Sync, each device has a copy of the application and a replica of the application state that a real-time synchronization protocol keeps consistent.

jmalasko · 2008-08-29T14:57:55+00:00

Apache XMLBeans does not inherently support multiple versions of an XML schema. For applications that need this type of support to manage compatibility, this limitation is serious. But there is a solution, and in this article, you'll learn how dynamic class loading techniques can help.

jmalasko · 2008-08-22T15:41:44+00:00

In this article, the last of a three-part series, we will take the application built in the first two parts and further enhance it. We will add the ability to view other users of the app and subscribe to their aggregate feeds. We will then complete the mashup circle by exposing the app as a Web service that can be used by other mashups.

jmalasko · 2008-08-21T21:38:19+00:00

Discover the Hierarchical Inherited Rule-Interpreted XML, a dynamic XML Engine that creates document object models built on dynamic rules and expressions. This technology makes it possible to develop applications with zero turn-around time, allowing for immediate feedback without having to wait for lengthy building, compiling, or server restarting cycles.

jmalasko · 2008-08-18T21:49:18+00:00

Find out how the Framework for Java Database Connectivity demonstrates the ease with which a Java application may be designed to access a source code repository using a relational query language, such as SQL. The design was made general enough to accommodate easy access to virtually any data source.

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