Google AJAX Language API

What is the Google AJAX Language API?

With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript.

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Android

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. This early look at the Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.

 

http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html

http://www.helloandroid.com/node/258

Song Bird- Play music. Play the Web.

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

Songbird is a player and a platform. Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.

 

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SQL Prompt™ Latest version: 3.6.0 Intelligent code completion for SQL Server

 

SQL Prompt automates the retrieval of database object names, syntax and snippets as you write, intelligently offering only appropriate code choices. In addition to displaying the object creation-SQL script, SQL Prompt is highly customizable so you can make it perform exactly the way you want.

Using SQL Prompt will improve your productivity and dramatically reduce your time at the keyboard. See the animation below displaying a typical scripting event and how much effort and time SQL Prompt can save you.

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Detect application launched from command window

recently one in experts -exchange asked me how to detect application launched from command window.

   1: static void Main(string[] args)

   2: {

   3:     foreach (string arg in args)

   4:     {

   5:  

   6:         MessageBox.Show(arg);

   7:  

   8:     }

   9:  

  10:     Application.EnableVisualStyles();

  11:     Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

  12:     Application.Run(new Form1());

  13:  

  14:  

  15:    

  16: }

 

pass the parameters from the command window..this feature can be used to load the program based on various environment settings

BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio

BlackBerry® offers leading wireless solutions, providing access to a wide range of applications on a variety of BlackBerry smartphones, as well as BlackBerry enabled devices around the world. BlackBerry wireless solutions combine wireless devices with software and services to keep mobile professionals connected to the people, data and resources that drive their day.

 

BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio

The BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® allows enterprise developers and system integrators to leverage existing Microsoft® based developer tools to wirelessly enable applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. It lets developers working within a .NET programming environment use their development tool of choice, while still taking advantage of the benefits of the BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS). They can enjoy simplified wireless application development, deployment and management for the enterprise.

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COALESCE() accepts a series of values and a value to use in the event that all items in the list are null; then, it returns the first not-null value. This tip describes two creative uses of the COALESCE() function in SQL Server.

this functionis very much usefull in building a comma seprated strings which i used in my project

i used this functions to get all the id's based on a common value

declare @oid varchar(8000)

SELECT @oid = COALESCE(@oid +',', '') +convert(varchar(1000),ConsumerOrderids ) 
from ConsumerOrderInfowhere consumerid = 124

select @orderdetailsid

the output was
1001,1002,1003