XtractPro - Data Extraction and Transformation

I've always been fascinated by the unexpected ways some people succeeded in life. Biggest success stories have frequently an amazing legend behind. Nobody believed in them or tried to shut them down. I compiled here a list of these stories, as a reminder nothing comes easy and when it comes, it happens in most unexpected ways.
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This article briefly presents data collection and aggregation concepts, then focus moves to data exposure, determined by user or business needs. The final chapters present some aggregation-based websites from own portfolio, with the ideas that led to business decisions.
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This is an online strip generator, to interactively create cartoons from separate images. It was written in ActionScript 3, using Adobe Flex (MXML classes) and the FlashDevelop open-source IDE. Drag images and drop them into one of the three frames. Move, resize or rotate them. When ready, switch to Preview to see how the online image generated from the frames will look like when published.
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In over 20 years of software development, I designed and implemented over a dozen projects where migration of data and metadata from one database system to another was the main concern. Here are the guidelines of what to expect and how to handle migration of a legacy obsolete desktop database to Microsoft Access.
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This blog was created from scratch in ASP.NET few years ago. While you should rather consider today a free blogging/CMS solution using frameworks such as WordPress, Google's Blogger/Blogspot, Drupal, Joomla etc, if you still want to experiment or create an ASP.NET blog, website or CMS from scratch, here are the guidelines.
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