5 Business Models for Social Media Startups Jun Loayza is the President of SocialMediaMarketing.com, a company focused on building social media campaigns for companies. He is also the co-founder of Viralogy.com, which measures and ranks your social influence online. He loves to meet other young, motivated entrepreneurs, and can be reached though his personal blog. During the first Internet boom, the most common business model was probably, "get a ton of traffic, then figure out how to make money" — which savvy readers will note isn't a very good business model. Today's social media startups are finding unique ways of generating revenue from the very beginning. 1. Description: This business model works by offering a basic service for free, while charging for a premium service with advanced features to paying members. Examples of the Freemium Model: UserVoice, Flickr, Vimeo, LinkedIn, and PollDaddy I spoke with Marcus Nelson from UserVoice about their use of the freemium model and how it works: 1. 2. 1. 1. 5. 3. 1. 1. 4. 1. 5. 1.
Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy WPF NotifyIcon Version 1.0.8 released April 2nd 2016. This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (aka system tray icon or taskbar icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the Windows Forms NotifyIcon component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich ToolTips, Popups, context menus, and balloon messages. Browse/fork/clone Git repository (includes sample application)Download library via NuGet Features at a glance Custom Popups (interactive controls) on mouse clicks.Customized ToolTips (Vista and above) with fallback mechanism for xp/2003.Rich event model including attached events to trigger animations in Popups, ToolTips, and balloon messages. Tutorial and Support A comprehensive tutorial that complements the attached sample application can be found on the Code Project: Please post support questions to the CodeProject forum only. Screenshots XAML Declaration Sample
Test management tools Test management tools are used to store information on how testing is to be done, plan testing activities and report the status of quality assurance activities. The tools have different approaches to testing and thus have different sets of features. Generally they are used to maintain and plan manual testing, run or gather execution data from automated tests, manage multiple environments and to enter information about found defects. Test management tools offer the prospect of streamlining the testing process and allow quick access to data analysis, collaborative tools and easy communication across multiple project teams. Many test management tools incorporate requirements management capabilities to streamline test case design from the requirements. Tracking of defects and project tasks are done within one application to further simplify the testing. Structuring the test process[edit] Implementation[edit] Using[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit] References[edit]
NHibernate Queries - Examples Today was the first day of my NHibernate course, and I think that it might be good to point out a few of the samples that we worked with. Those are pretty basic NHibernate queries, but they are probably going to be useful for beginners. Let us take my usual Blog model, and see what kind of queries (and results) we can come up with: Let us find a blog by its identifier: var blog = s.Get<Blog>(1); Which results in: We can also try: var blog = s.Load<Blog>(1); Which would result in… absolutely no SQL queries. Now, let us try to search by a property: var blogs = s.CreateCriteria<Blog>() .Add(Restrictions.Eq("Title", "Ayende @ Rahien")) .List<Blog>(); Which results in: If we try to make the same with HQL, it would look: var blogs = s.CreateQuery("from Blog b where b.Title = :title") .SetParameter("title","Ayende @ Rahien") .List<Blog>(); Which results in slight different SQL than using the criteria: What about trying a more complex conditional? Which results in: Which would result in: Which results in:
Application lifecycle management ALM software suites[edit] Some specialized software suites for ALM are: See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Keuper, Frank; Oecking, Christian; Degenhardt, Andreas; Verlag, Gabler (2011). Electronic sources[edit] NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models A while ago I sat down and talked with a colleague about the Entity Framework, he raved about how important the separation of the logical model from the physical one is. I don’t really buy into that, but that is beside the point. Last week, on the Progressive.NET NHibernate workshops, I setup, quite accidently, to create a single domain model and map it to several physical data models. Let us start from the following domain model: I am going to present three things for each physical data model manifestation. s.CreateQuery("from Owner owner where owner.Name = 'ayende'") .List<Owner>(); We will start with the classic, table per class, which looks like this: The database schema is: You might want to pay some attention to the association between Consortium and its owner, using <many-to-any/>. Trying to execute the aforementioned query will give us an error, NHibernate is not aware of any persistent class called Owner and HQL queries are not polymorphic over unknown types. Which result in:
Server, simplified: A power user’s guide to OS X Server Update: We've covered the new features in updates 2.1 and 2.2 here. Even long-time Mac users could be forgiven for not knowing anything about OS X Server, the business-oriented version of the operating system that has been developed alongside the better-known consumer version for as long as OS X has existed. For a long while, the software shipped only with the Xserve, Apple's enterprise-class server hardware. Standalone licenses for the unlimited client version of the software cost $1,000 all the way up until Snow Leopard, when the price dropped to a still-imposing $500. All this changed in early 2011 when Apple discontinued the Xserve and replaced it with repurposed configurations of the Mac Mini and Mac Pro. With Lion Server and now Mountain Lion Server, the software has followed the hardware in becoming cheaper and simpler, and in shifting its focus from large businesses to small ones. Introduction and installation Goodbye Server Admin Tools, hello again Server.app Notes for upgraders