IAS-RESEARCH BLOG

The status of Electrical Consulting Industry is fragmented. More on this later. What is ststus of the EMTDC/Netomac based simulation assigment... More on this later.

I am assessing the market potential of Linux Based embedede systems development.

We are trying to acess opportunites for model development for fabless industries. More on this later.

I am working on making sure I can do the WPf Development on XPP- Service Pack 2 Box. More on this later.
I have started a discussion on www.eggheadcafe.com
It is Here
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/56/10061524/wcfwpf-enabling-...

I have personal feeling that EDA industry is at a crossroads.

The events at Cadence is a sign of things to come for the entire industry.

Start reading codes of opensource like

1.0 Joomla/Drupal CMS
2.0 Oscommerce/Majento
3.0 Start playing with GOF patterns with EA( Sparx Systms)
4.0 Start working witrh Linux/Sun Box
5.0 Start reading Sun Documentation books
6.0 Start reading couple of oriely's Networking books
7.0 Look into source code of the Linuux Kernel.
8.0 Start looking into linux/solaris systems programming.
9.0 Try to understand how GDB work- debugging process and signal handler.
10.0 Then jump into .net- because MS wants to blind you with MS Technology.

I just purchased the Jommla-1.5 Website Design and Template design books from Packet Publisher and they are useful. Very Practical to say the least. I am looking for Information about how Dreamwevaer from Macromedia can help in creating Joomla and Drupal related Templaes using CSS and PHP. Any Information will be appreciated.

Ref:
1.0 Jommla 1.5 Book
http://www.packtpub.com/Joomla-Template-Design-open-source-PHP-MySQL/book
2.0 Joomla Template Design
http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-version-1-5/book

I am installing Windows 2008-32 Bit and or 64bit Basic Server on Intel dual core(2.4 GHZ) machine with 2 GB DDR Memory and 320 GB SATA Drive. I just bolted the machine together. I plan to use the machine for production of ASP.NET development/Work/Testing.

Any ideas which version I should be installainng and why? I have pizza box after pizza box of Microsoft action pack's media and I never had any time to look at them, or even open them.

All ideas will be appreciated.

I have to debug large chuncks of CSS for the Drupal and Jommla Templates and it is always a challenging task.
Fortunately I found the Firefox Web development tools and made the work manageable.

I highly recommend these tool sets.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

This one suggested by Dirk
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_upload

This is My Favourite
http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/book/links/

Jommla CSS Debugging Tips
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=125552

Here is some information about the quirk modes-IE7/FF-3.07.

I have started using Flash8 Professional Version. And the Action script Features are great. wwww.lynda.com has some great tutorials for FL8. I think fl8 will have some incredible success in new gene ion of cell phone. Wifi/WIMAX based cell phones will have a field day with flash8.