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Search for flight information with the Bing API

The Bing API allows developers to query the Bing Engine. Queries can be sent using JSON, XML or SOAP. In order to query Bing you will need an Application ID available on the Bing Developer Center . You will also need to agree to the terms of service....

Published 16 Aug 2011 7:34 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Bing API

The role of release management in enterprise software development

Release management is the process of managing software releases. Every program and application needs to be maintained, periodically updated and released to market in order to keep its business value. Although this seems pretty simple to the end user,...

Published 27 Aug 2010 6:00 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Enterprise Development, software life cycle

The comeback of MapReduce

MapReduce has been gaining some popularity lately. With the Parallel Library Computing patterns and objects databases like MongoDB using it. MapReduce is a computing algorithm which uses key value pairs in order to quickly find results in large amounts...

Published 11 Jun 2010 6:03 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Parallel Computing

My interview with famouswhy.com

An interview with Gal Ratner from Inverted Software FW Editor: What are your plans or objectives for the near future? Gal Ratner: We recently made an investment in social media and community integration software and we have plans to have the community...

Published 8 Jun 2010 3:37 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Bulk Image Resizer

Shopping Cart .NET Main Database diagram

This is the main database diagram for Shopping Cart .NET. It does not include the ASP membership tables. You can download Shopping Cart .NET from codeplex at http://shoppingcartnet.codeplex.com

Published 3 Jun 2010 5:28 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Shopping Cart .NET

What is a good job interview?

I was interviewing lots of developers in the past six months for some open positions. I must have talked to at least 50 people and it got me thinking about what a good interview is. A good interview is an interview that impacts the person across the desk...

Published 17 May 2010 11:34 PM by Gal Ratner

Podcast #1. Mobile Development with NBC's Kam Bhagia

In this podcast, we talk to Kam Bhagia about the past, present and future of mobile development. Kam is a Senior Architect Alternative Platforms at NBC.com and in his position, he is in charge of shaping the mobile platform of NBC. Listen Now This text...

Published 10 Mar 2010 8:29 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Mobile

How to change the site title in Dolphin 7.0

I was playing around today with Dolphin 7.0 checking it out. I wanted to change the site title. It’s a simple thing but I couldn’t find anything in the admin panel. I Googled it and found I need to edit the file header.inc.php and set $site...

Published 31 Jan 2010 6:20 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: MySql, Dolphin

The Ten basic rules of enterprise systems design

Over the years I have seen and been responsible for the design of many enterprise systems. From media encoding servers to financial and residual payments, I have seen many systems designs. Some good and some let’s say “required more thought...

Published 21 Oct 2009 6:28 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Software Architecture

The next version of SQL Server - Project code-named "Madison"

A quick look into the next version of SQL Server. This version makes use of Parallel Computing in order to to scale databases across nodes. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Christian-Kleinerman-Introduction-to-SQL-Server-Project-Madison/ Key customer...

Published 3 Sep 2009 6:19 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Parallel Computing, Data Warehousing, SQL Server 2008, Madison

Update a record in a SQL Server table from another record in the same table

In SQL Server you can update record fields with the values from another record using the following TSQL: UPDATE t1 SET t1.MyColumn = t2.MyColumn FROM MyTable AS t1, MyTable AS t2 WHERE t1.ID = @ID1 AND t2.IP = @ID2 This will update your table’s...

Published 22 Aug 2009 4:15 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: SQL, FROM, UPDATE

Add or remove an IP address from a remote server with netsh and pstools

Netsh.exe is a windows utility designed to help administrators perform operations using command prompt. More on netsh here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242468 PStools is an optional suit of components design for remote operations. Using PsExec you...

Published 29 Jul 2009 3:41 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: pstools, netsh

Javascript numeric paging

Comment on Javascript numeric paging http://www.invertedsoftware.com/tutorials/JAVASCRIPT-Numeric-Paging.html

Published 26 Apr 2009 6:09 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Javascript

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