Microsoft SharePoint Server on an older PC

New Project: To setup a MS SharePoint Server (Feb/2016)

Working Thesis on Content Management Systems (CMS), references needed

Hi folks, I am working on a thesis on CMS, and will be needing references for my research. I am focusing on Drupal, as it's the CMS of choice for the agency I work for. I have some background in WordPress, and Joomla, so having some references for comparison would be appreciated. The references should be from peer reviews sources if possible. Thanks in advance.

Google Refiner

Google Cleans Up Messy Data with Refine

If you live for data, slave over spreadsheets and constantly find yourself sifting through endless rows and columns of facts and figures, Google’s got a lovely new product just for you — and it’s free and open-source, too.

Google Refine is a project born of Freebase Gridworks, a data-cleaning tool Google() acquired when it bought Metaweb during the summer. Google has since renamed Gridworks and relaunched it as Refine.

Basically, Refine makes it much easier for data geeks to clean up and use big sets of data.

For example, if you’re writing an academic paper, government study or news article that requires you to download and parse spreadsheets from Data.gov or similar source of free information, you might notice all kinds of inconsistencies when you try to sort the data. This is a particular problem when you’re using free, open-to-the-public data that no one has maintained or cleaned up in the past.

Google Refine builds on its Gridworks roots by helping its users correct inconsistencies, changing data formats, extending data sets with data from web sources and other databases and much more. Refine also brings “a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase) and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions,” according to the official Google Open Source blog

See the original post by MashableTech for images and video demo.

I discovered Adobe's InDesign (CS4) is able to create epub compatiable files for eReaders like the Nook, and other readers (some need addition formating, like for the Kindle). I've uploaded to Google Doc some White Papers that Adobe has on the subject and felt their worth sharing, for those that use InDesign.

Exporting_epubs

jQuery Mobile Project

The jQuery project is really excited to announce the work that we’ve been doing to bring jQuery to mobile devices. Not only is the core jQuery library being improved to work across all of the major mobile platforms, but we’re also working to release a complete, unified, mobile UI framework.

Absolutely critical to us is that jQuery and the mobile UI framework that we’re developing work across all major international mobile platforms (not just a few of the most popular platforms in North America). We’ve published a complete strategy overview detailing the work that we’re doing and a chart showing all the browsers that we’re going to support.

Right now we’re working hard, planning out the features that we want to land and doing testing against the devices that we want to support — and hoping for a release later this year. If you wish to help, please join the discussion in the jQuery Mobile Community.

Learning to use mobile blogger's SMS posting methods, neat.

Calibre

Testing for conversion of PDF files to e reader format. Using version. 0.6.42, I plan to upgrade software, due to errors generated in the current version.