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I'm looking for a free UPC or Barcode database that is available for download. I have seen upcdataBase.com and a few others, but those do not allow for a free download of the db. File type is not a huge issue as I can work with SQL, csv, text, XML, json or anything else.
Anyone know where I can find one? I do not want a web service, I need an actual file or method of downloading all of the upcs or barcodes someone has. A large inclusive db would be great, but even a partial db would be great.
Thanks
Logical Solutions (http://www.LogicalSo.com) sells UPC barcode datamining software that scans the web for barcodes and product names, and build a database for you.
Gregg London sells UPC databases in the form of a "Product Load Service". There is more information on their site: http://www.glondon.com/upcdatabase.html
You probably can make a quick mashup using: searchupc.com and upcdata.info and then retrieve product information from google product API.
Also, you can use AWSECommerceService API to retrieve something like this:
ItemLookupRequest request = new ItemLookupRequest();
request.getResponseGroup().add("Large");
request.setIdType("UPC"); // TODO: need to change if it's EAC
request.getItemId().add(upc);
request.setSearchIndex("All");
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i am trying to learn ASP.Net MVC2/3 and trying to work on a web project that will actually be a blogging project. So i would have the similar structure as a normal blog looks like. I would have title, blog entry, some tags and other stuff. Now i want suggestion on using database. Since the blog entry i.e. an article would be a text with multiple paragraphs and might also contain some images. So i was wondering what kind of database should be good to store these texts. I can use SQL for storing text but not sure if it would be fast enough. Any suggestions on where can i get or i should say learn about good database design for such application.
Also it would be helpful if anyone can suggest a good source for ASP.net MVC3 learning. I can look online for tutorials, but some good books for beginners would be helpful.
Any suggestion would be great.
Thanks. :)
download sqlExpress from Microsoft, it will be plenty fast enough to store/retrieve text, it's free and it works well with .net
I think the easiest way to store the posts would be to store the text as HTML, with tags that point to somewhere in your file structure. When you add an image, you upload it to that directory, and generate a link for it.
Take a look at how wordpress works, that should give you plenty of ideas for writing your own code.
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I am trying to develop a web based document browsing system, that could look possibly something like : http://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences (then click on "Protein kinases: evolution of dynamic regulatory proteins").
What web technologies should I look at using? AJAX?
Thanks in advance.
Andy
AJAX could do the trick, but you'll need more than that.
Getting document sections and pictures with AJAX is half (maybe less than half) the job, as you'll need all the backend code to upload documents, maybe extract document sections from PDF, store documents hierarchically, retrieve the document hierarchy and pictures, and so on.
Moreover, you don't even told us what server-side technology you are going to use... Java, PHP, DotNet... and the database... PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, end the list goes on.
About the AJAX side and web UI, I suggest you take a look at jQuery and jQuery UI.
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I know that there are lots to read on the net about AJAX , but if U want to explained it for a non-web-technical person what would you say ?
"A style of web page where you can edit stuff without having to wait for the whole page to reload all the time"
It's a mechanism to communicate with webserver (backend) without refreshing the whole page. :)
But I believe this site is not a good place to ask these kind of questions.
"A way of updating a web page in sections, instead of all at once."
It's a technology that allows you to download only select portions of the web page, providing a faster and less disruptive page update.
Prior to AJAX, if you need PEN, you must have to buy PAPER and other things which you already have.
In AJAX, you get what you need.
A technique which escape your server from extra burden and fasten your responses
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I have a completed Cocoa application and would like to sell it. I have found many services that will sell your application, but not many that will also handle activation. Are there any services that will integrate activation into the installation file or are there any services that are easy to integrate (hopefully will take at max an hour to implement)? For example, SoftwareKey looks good, but it is only for Windows.
Thanks for your help in advance.
If you're talking about in-application purchase of Mac-based Cocoa applications, there's Golden % Braeburn and the new open source Cocoa Boutique. Kagi and eSellerate are also popular services for paying to activate Mac software.
I am not aware of a service that does both, but there are options such as the AcquaticPrime framework to take care of the licensing part. This question on StackOverflow may be helpful for you.
If you can write your own key generator then e-junkie is a cheap and easy to use system that can process payments and issue codes. With a bit of creativity you can even use a spreadsheet to generate pre-generated codes, then it's just writing the activation code in Cocoa. Took me no more than a couple of hours.
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I'm searching for the best way to automatically organize all user generated content in a social network.
I'm building a site in ruby based upon lovdbyless' framework. the site is a place for men to share specialised knowledge.
I've looked into wikis,forums, blogs by need a platform/organizational structure that will allow user generated content from these 3 sources to be automatically aggregated, indexed and make it searchable, so that other users can get access to it easily and efficiently.
Something like a knowledgebase, that is automatically updated wherever a user creates a forum post, personal blog post, wiki entry etc.so that the combined knowledge of the site is accessible to members with minimum effort
Titles and Tags.
If I may expand on Lance's answer, since I agree tags are the best structure, you could generalise that into a triple graph, perhaps with something like RDF. What is an RDF triple?
Thanks to stuff like semantic mediawiki, and SIOC turning up in both wordpress and Drupal, you basically have a pre-built architecture for doing this.
As long as you are happy working in RDF, it should just be a case of integrating the various UIs in a way that makes sense for the goals of your social network project.
There are even "federated" query engines that will query all sources as if they are one source.