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I finally got the chance to go visit the new Microsoft Store at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. I have to say that I was pretty impressed. The Microsoft Store is directly across from the Apple Store. The comparison between the two stores is so obvious, that you feel the competition oozing out of [...]
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the Microsoft Store
Posted: December 16, 2010 in Featured, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Apple, Apple Store, Microsoft, Microsoft Store
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No App for That! Is Steve Jobs Failing Apple?
Posted: May 14, 2010 in Featured, Marketplace Infrastructure, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Adobe, Apple, Apple vs. Adobe, Applications Development, commodity, differentiation, Flash, innovation, iPad, iPhone, Open Source, product erosion, sign, significance, standardization, Steve Jobs, tech savvy, Tech War
“It’s Innovation, not Open Source. . .” I just finished reading Gregg Keizer’s Computer World article, “Adobe escalates feud with Apple over Flash.” In his article, Keizer outlines some new developments in the ongoing Next Tech War. Specifically, Keizer links to a post on Adobe’s website titled, “Freedom of Choice,” which offers a letter from [...]
The #TechWar Continues $AAPL $MSFT $ADBE #Flash #HTML5 #Silverlight
Posted: May 3, 2010 in Featured, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Apple, Flash, HTML5, iPad
Microsoft joins the Tech War and shows Apple how to do this “social media thing” the right way. In a ZDnet article just published today, titled Microsoft fires back at critics of its HTML5 strategy, Ed Bott describes the very different approaches Microsoft and Apple are taking to announce their support for the HTML5 standard. It [...]
The Next Tech War: Mobile Applications Development Platforms
Posted: April 12, 2010 in Featured, TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Adobe, Apple, CS5, Google, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Silverlight 4, Steve Jobs, Windows Phone 7, XNA 4
This Means War! Today, Adobe launches the highly anticipated Creative Suite 5 (CS5). The most anticipated feature of CS5 is the ability to develop applications using Flash technologies and compile the application so it will run in Apple’s iPhone. The great thing about this, from Adobe’s perspective, is that it allows hundreds of thousands of [...]
Apple iPad? I get it now…
Posted: February 1, 2010 in TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: Amazon, Apple, B&N, eBook, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Nook
I had an “Ahh Haa” moment as I read Nathan Bransford’s blog. (@NathanBransford on twitter) For those who don’t know: Nathan Bransford is a Literary Agent for top agency Curtis Brown, LTD. His blog can be found here: http://ow.ly/12P4I I’d been wondering for several weeks now, why Apple decided to finally produce the iPad. I’d [...]
How to search JDE EnterpriseOne Data Dictionary from SQL
Posted: August 17, 2009 in TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: ERP, JD Edwards, JDE, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL
Wouldn’t it be nice if, as a developer, you could stay inside of SQL or your chosen Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and get all the information necessary to identify what fields and tables you need to use to access the JDE data? Wouldn’t it be great if you could not only see the descriptions, but also see field lengths? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to search for specific field aliases throughout JDE to discover all the tables where specific fields are used throughout the JDE system? While we’re wishing, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could perform wildcard searches for field descriptions, aliases, data types, and other information in the Data Dictionary, right from our development environments?
How to convert EnterpriseOne (JDE) Julian Dates
Posted: August 16, 2009 in TechKnowledgy ArticlesTags: AS/400, Dates, ERP, Gregorian, iSeries, JD Edwards, JDE, Julian, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Reporting Services, SQL, SQL Server, SSRS, T-SQL
Overview If you’ve ever worked with Oracle/PeopleSoft’s EnterpriseOne ERP system (also known as JD Edwards or simply JDE) you’ll quickly find that dealing with dates from the database is a bit challenging. EnterpriseOne stores all dates in the system in Julian Date format. EnterpriseOne has a lot of dates in every table. The Julian Date [...]
