Development by Davis: “Open source wayfinding with Walk [Your City]” plus 6 more

Open source wayfinding with Walk [Your City]
Visual Basic .NET – Transacción con SqlConnection
AFDS Returns to Pacific Northwest with Focus on Heterogeneous Computing, Gaming, Cloud Computing and More
Bohemian broadband and the FOSS/maker culture
WordPress 3.4 Beta 2
Convert array of distinguished names to canonical names
Mozilla Open Badges ships beta release

Open source wayfinding with Walk [Your City]

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT

It's a two-second trip to visit walkyourcity.org. But before you head over there, you'll want to hear from Matt Tomasulo, founder of CityFabric and chief instigator of Walk Raleigh and Walk [Your City]. Urban Times called Walk [Your City] "Open Source Guerrilla Wayfinding." It's a simple idea of helping pedestrians overcome the hurdle of distance perception, and by doing so, promoting a healthier lifestyle.

A few weeks ago at Triangle Wiki Day, Tomasulo mentioned he wanted to take his Walk Raleigh idea global, and using the principles of open source were the perfect way to do so. The open source walking adventure is starting. Tomasulo has started a successful Kickstarter campaign and is gathering support for the Walk Your City platform.

See how open source has influenced the Walk [Your City] project in our interview with Matt Tomasulo.

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Visual Basic .NET – Transacción con SqlConnection

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:33 AM PDT

 Dim conexion As SqlConnection = Nothing Dim transaccion As SqlTransaction = Nothing  Try conexion = New SqlConnection("ConnectionString") conexion.Open() transaccion = conexion.BeginTransaction()  'Lógica de negocio  transaccion.Commit() transaccion = Nothing conexion.Close() conexion = Nothing Catch ex As Exception If (Not IsNothing(transaccion)) Then transaccion.Rollback() transaccion = Nothing End If If (Not IsNothing(conexion)) Then conexion.Close() conexion = Nothing End If End Try

AFDS Returns to Pacific Northwest with Focus on Heterogeneous Computing, Gaming, Cloud Computing and More

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the addition of keynote speakers, David Perry, CEO and Co-Founder at Gaikai and Phil Pokorny, CTO at Penguin Computing to its largest technical conference, the

Bohemian broadband and the FOSS/maker culture

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Last month, Verizon announced their HomeFusion broadband Internet service, which provides faster-than-DSL Internet service to a broad swath of rural America. After paying a one time fee of $200 for a device that hangs on the side of your house, you can live anywhere Verizon's LTE cell phone service reaches and receive fixed wireless broadband Internet at that location for $60/month.

For the longest time, rural home dwellers have had very poor choices for high-speed Internet. Some chose to use satellite Internet service, but that was often a costly and unsatisfactory solution. Verizon's new option is going to be

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WordPress 3.4 Beta 2

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:52 PM PDT

Howdy, folks! Another week, another beta. Since we released Beta 1 last week, we've committed more than 60 bug fixes and feature adjustments based on testing and feedback. If you've been testing Beta 1, please update to Beta 2 to make sure things are still working for you. If you are a theme or plugin author and have not yet started testing your code against the 3.4 beta, now's the perfect time to start. And as always, if you find any bugs, let us know! Full details on testing and bug reporting can be found in last week's Beta 1 post.

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Convert array of distinguished names to canonical names

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 03:42 PM PDT

I have an array that is full of user's and computer's distinguished
names from Active Directory. How can I convert each element in the
array to the user's or computer's CN?

For example, if my array looks like this:

"CN=TestUser1,OU=TestOU,DC=abc ,DC=com"
"CN=TestUser2,OU=TestOU,DC=abc ,DC=com"

Mozilla Open Badges ships beta release

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Adding skills and achievements to your online identity

When Mozilla's Open Badges project began in late 2010, it was little more than a demo and an audaciously big idea: what if we could use the web to create whole new ways to "show what you know?

Today, that big idea is becoming reality, with impressive partners and new Mozilla Open Badges beta software coming together to test how digital badges can supercharge learning and identity.