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The first alpha version of simon - open source speech recognition suite - has been released

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The first alpha version of simon has been released! It is neither stable nor feature-complete, but it should give you a pretty good overview of what simon will be like. The project provides a ready-to-use interface for the julius CSR engine for a handicapped child which is not able to use the keyboard well. It integrates into X11 and Windows.

The project was started by a group of four students who try to make life easier for Tobias Pölzl - a spastic kid who has trouble typing with a normal keyboard.

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Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL and Wordpress on Windows Platform - Part 2

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This is the second part continued from the first article posted before. If on the first I had described how to install Apache, PHP and MySQL, in this second part I will cover how to install the most popular blogging platform - Wordpress - Basically its a web application built with PHP but the plug-n-play feature (if I am allowed to say that way) makes it easy to use, user friendly, fast in the term of deploying functionalities, plenty of supports - its scattered all over the net and open source of course.

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Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL and Wordpress on Windows Platform - Part 1

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Hi, this is the list of steps I have been using to install Apache, PHP, MySQL and Wordpress on Windows platform as development purposes, so this might not be the perfect setting for production server, but it works well for my development workstation in order to test and debug. I had wrote it with the most practical way hoping that these steps can be easily adapted by the first time user of Apache, PHP, mySQL and Wordpress if they want to taste this powerful combination of open source products. OK, lets get started shall we…

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Visual Basic.NET, an example of using HTTPWebRequest object

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On the other article which you can view it here, I had described how to use the WebClient object to download resources from the internet. But you do not have enough control with the WebClient if you need to do something more. This time we’re going explore the other more flexible object related to the internet download process.

This object called HttpWebRequest. It’s located under the System.Net namespace. With this object you will have more control over the process, such as the HTTPVersion and the KeepAlive property.

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Downloading file and extracting ZIP compressed file with Visual Basic.NET

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These are a couple examples of many simplified processes provided by the VB.NET. You can’t find these simplicity in its predecessor, the Traditional VB6.

Downloading a file - Believe it or not you only need less than 3 lines to download a file somewhere from the internet to you local drive. This sub procedure below can do that for you, without a reference to any library - it’s a built-in feature:

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