Searching Tip: Context

Are you ready to take your search capabilities to the next level?  If you’re like many professionals today, you’re inundated by information at work, and sifting your way through it can be challenging.  You probably already use Google, Bing, or some other search engine for the Internet.  And maybe you even use the search tools built into Microsoft Windows, built into your applications, or built into your smartphone.  But if you’re not using this tip on search context, give it a read and see how it can help you sift through that growing mountain of information you deal with every day.   Continue Reading

Inforbix Gets Started

For those of you familiar with the key players at Dassault, ENOVIA, and SmarTeam over the years, you probably know Oleg Shilovitsky.  Oleg is the former Chief Technology Officer for SmarTeam, and is one of the founders of a new product data applications company, Inforbix.  Simply put, Inforbix is in the early stages of developing novel technologies for use in the engineering and manufacturing software space.  Continue Reading

Microsoft’s Free XML Editor

XML is the wonder of the modern programming age. Its plain text can represent objects with properties and attributes to capture complex structures in a simple text file. And it’s even fairly easy to understand. Just look at it. It’s logical. But as logical as XML is, when you look at an XML file in production, it’s huge, convoluted, and impossible to grasp in one glimpse inside of Notepad.  Lucky for us, our friends at Microsoft have come up with an answer in their free XML Notepad 2007 tool.  Continue Reading

Microsoft’s Free XML Editor

XML is the wonder of the modern programming age. Its plain text can represent objects with properties and attributes to capture complex structures in a simple text file. And it’s even fairly easy to understand. Just look at it. It’s logical. But as logical as XML is, when you look at an XML file in production, it’s huge, convoluted, and impossible to grasp in one glimpse inside of Notepad.  Lucky for us, our friends at Microsoft have come up with an answer in their free XML Notepad 2007 tool.  Continue Reading

Autocomplete and IntelliSense

If you’ve been developing programs for a while, you probably either love autocompletion features or you hate them.  If you’re in the former camp, or you’re just getting started with programming, this tip is just for you.  Autocomplete, or the Microsoft equivalent, IntelliSense, is a feature within certain software that tries to automatically complete what you’ve started typing before you finish typing all of the letters yourself.  For a lot of people, this is a real time-saver and can prevent typographical mistakes.  But what if you’re working on code in a text file, or in a development environment that doesn’t have autocomplete?  Here are a few utilities that can help you out.  Continue Reading

Internet-Based Clipboard

Have you ever needed to copy text or a complex hyperlink between two different computers?  Of course you have.  Depending on how often you do this sort of thing, you might have some creative solutions like using a USB thumbdrive or copying a plain text file across the network.  But the folks at cl1p.net are offering a different answer – one that is useful in a number of other situations where thumbdrives and network shares aren’t feasible.  Continue Reading

Multiple Vaults in Aras Innovator for Global PLM Support

The majority of businesses these days have a need to manage documents in at least one location other than the “main” site. If the documents have any size to them, the vaulting process can be very painful and time consuming, regardless of the PLM system in use. Luckily, most PLM systems, including Aras Innovator, have the ability to house vaults in multiple locations to support such a multi-site environment.  This allows for the vaulting operations to be moved local to the user, saving time and money. Continue Reading