Open source is often described as being free as in freedom and free as in beer.
MicroSoft’s Visual FoxPro isn’t open source free as in beer but parts of it are open source as in freedom. The fox team has included a lot of the source code available for review. Not for modification where […]
Microsoft is hopping onto the RSS bandwagon for Longhorn. I must be missing something but why is this news? The only reason that I see it being news is that this is another example of Microsoft taking an open standard, and attempting an “embrace and extend” approach.
Here’s a link to Joe Wilcox’s article: […]
Peter Banks was making some interesting observations now that VB.NET is now 5 years old.
Click here for the Google cached version of the article
Main point: “VB Classic” was a RAD tool that made developers productive. VB.NET, while more powerful, may be too difficult to knock out the “one-off” programs that are quite useful in […]
Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.
The world is changing. No one can stop it but it’s been interesting what has been happening in the programming world. There has been a huge outsourcing of projects to third world countries. I think the vast majority of those initial projects have failed. I think […]
Helios is involved in a grassroots effort to get the local middle school off of Windows, or at least off of M$ Office. He blogged about it here: http://lobby4linux.com/WordPress/?p=18.
Short story: in walks the M$ sales guy looking to get them signed up again and hears about the school considering a open sourced solution. […]
Some websites that I go to open up popup windows that Firefox can’t block. I guess I could turn off Java Script. In fact I’ve been reading about many programmers doing so with great success. I could also go out and install additional plugins to help with the issue as well but […]
The VFP road map came out the other day. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/roadmap/ I’ve been trying to gather my thoughts about it. The VFP community is busy looking at what has been written and quickly starting analyzing the space in between the words, and then the space in between the letters.
To quote Freud: […]
Okay. It’s not really a sale.
About a year ago, I heard a tip on TechTV (Boy, I miss that station and I never watch the G4 crap that’s on now. All games.) that if you visit the Belkin web site, put something in your shopping cart, and type in the coupon code of […]
Ouch!
I was trying to get some travel information from one of my favorite internet travel sites, BiddingForTravel.com but it looks like they were subject to an attack!
http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardfrm98.showMessage?topicID=1.topic
The hacker not only deleted most of their online content but also deleted most of their backups. You’d think that offline backups would have been available. Some […]
A funny perspective from Robin Miller.
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/18/2033216.shtml
I am definitely a SimplyMEPIS fan because “it just works”. Hardware detection, full office suite, advanced graphics software, …heck… advanced everything software.
I loved the above article.