The Snowbound Imaging Technology Blog

Welcome to Snowbound Software’s Technology Blog. This interactive resource focuses on technologies that improve the document lifecycle from input through archiving. Topics include imaging, viewing, conversion and content management, as well as development environments such as Java, .NET, and Windows.

Check in for helpful technical tips, information and advice from our developers and panel of imaging experts, and we want your input, too! Share your questions, thoughts, opinions, experiences and knowledge with other IT and business professionals, or comment on topics addressed by other contributors.

What’s Your View on Web 2.0 Technology?

Written on September 30th, 2008 by Snowbound

How have Web 2.0 technologies (wikis, blogs, social networks, video sharing, etc.) impacted your work?

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What’s Your View On Client/Server Technology

Written on August 27th, 2008 by Snowbound

For what processes is your company moving away from client/server technology? Or are you still finding value in client/server architecture?

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What’s Your View on Email?

Written on July 31st, 2008 by Snowbound

How are you archiving email? What is your process for attachments — Do you keep them inline, separate them from the email, or another process?

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Microsoft Office Binary Formats

Written on July 11th, 2008 by Chris

It’s been just over a month now that the technical documentation for the Office binary formats has been available via download. What does this mean for developers and customers of third-party Office solutions?

Well, for one, it means that there is now universally public access to those specifications in electronic form. Previously, there was some documentation available in paper form, but trying to work collaboratively was no easy task. Those who did have access couldn’t easily share the documents internally, and they were covered by a confidentiality agreement and were not allowed to be freely distributed to just anyone.

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JDBC Content Handler for VirtualViewer

Written on June 26th, 2008 by Andy

One way the VirtualViewer Java servlet can be extended is by customizing the content handler on the backend of the servlet, allowing for tighter integration into content repositories or databases. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system licensed under the BSD license which has a strong industry backing and a number of different APIs including C/C++, Perl, Python, PHP, and JDBC which allow for database transactions to be written in your language of choice.

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