Archive for May 2010

Music Explorer FX 2.0: Now with Real Music

May 16, 2010 5:42 PM

The latest version of Music Explorer FX is now available. It boasts some significant changes, most notably access to full-length, licensed audio tracks. Real Music A significant limitation of previous versions of MEFX was the lack of access to licensed audio. Since most music is not freely available, MEFX would have to offer up whatever free content it could find on the internet. So if you brought up Lynyrd Skynyrd, for example, you were likely to come up with five remixes of someone sampling Freebird, when really all you wanted is the studio version of Sweet Home Alabama.

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posted by Sten Anderson

Google Analytics – Reports

May 13, 2010 8:43 PM

The CITYTECH Azure Calculator (CAC) is a Silverlight based tool that takes IIS log files as input and produces a graph that shows how much it would cost to run that server on Windows Azure. Check the CITYTECH Azure Calculator out here.

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posted by Rohit Srinath

Google Analytics – Reports

May 13, 2010 8:43 PM

OK, we agreed, we should track information about the visitors using Google Analytics, but how to view that information and what Reports Google provides to analyze it. There are multiple reports and you can customize it too…

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posted by Rohit Srinath

CITYTECH Azure Calculator BETA

May 12, 2010 8:52 PM

The CITYTECH Azure Calculator (CAC) is now ready with a BETA release! After a few last minute hiccups the application is up on CITYTECH’s Windows Azure instance and ready for use. Check it out here. The CITYTECH Azure Calculator is a Silverlight based application that is served up via Windows Azure. Currently the application runs completely within a users browser on the Silverlight framework. In future releases we hope to leverage some more Worker Roles to let Azure do alot of the heavy lifting.

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posted by Pat McLoughlin

Google Analytics for Silverlight

May 12, 2010 7:55 PM

Google Analytics for Silverlight – There are multiple analytics framework available to integrate with your Silverlight application. There is SilverlightAnalytics and then there is MSAF. MSAF – Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework seems to be more promising with more extensiblity and feature full and with the backing from Microsoft. It supports out-of-browsers, offline capability, A/B Testing and Support multiple analytics services simultaneously without impacting performance. MSAF can be used by designers in Microsoft Expression Blend to add tracking to applications without coding.

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posted by Rohit Srinath

Google Analytics for Silverlight

May 12, 2010 7:55 PM

The CITYTECH Azure Calculator (CAC) is a Silverlight based tool that takes IIS log files as input and produces a graph that shows how much it would cost to run that server on Windows Azure. Check the CITYTECH Azure Calculator out here.

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posted by Rohit Srinath

Google Analytics

May 12, 2010 7:52 PM

We are always curious to know how popular our website is. How many page hits, from which part of the world? On which particular page users spent more time? Which button was clicked most? Did people ever add any items into the shopping cart? How long a user spent time on the website? Did the new marketing campaign kick off? Which month of the year there is tons of web activity? If these are the questions that boggle your mind, welcome to Web Analytics.

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posted by Rohit Srinath

Grails ate my Spring persistence layer

May 7, 2010 3:46 PM

The time-saving aspects of using Grails for web application development have been well-documented. Take, for example, an ordinary Spring/JPA application. I did a quick analysis of such an application as a concrete example of just how much code and development effort could have been saved by using the GORM features of Grails alone.

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posted by Mark Daugherty

Introducing the CITYTECH Azure Calculator

May 5, 2010 10:22 PM

For the last month the .NET Nerds (Seth, Rohit and I ) have been huddled in the CITYTECH nerdery working on a project to show off some of the great features of the Windows Azure platform. Our goal for the project was to create something both useful and interesting. After many refactors of both ideas and code I am very happy to introduce the CITYTECH Azure Calculator (CAC)! The CAC is in its final stages of testing and will be available in the next 24 hours.

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posted by Pat McLoughlin