Phone taxes up 240% in two years!
I’ve been a happy Vonage customer for years. This tax situation is not their fault. They’ve provided me with good service, great features, for the same price for year after year. The government, however, is killing me. In 2005, I paid $4.20 in taxes and “fees” per month. In 2006, I paid $4.20 in taxes [...]
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Gates and M$’ future direction in programming?
My friend, Russell Campbell, sent me this link this morning. Gates talks up declarative modeling language effort F(@*$($(*&*#(*$$*#()@) I’m so happy I’m getting off the M$ B$. Here’s my favorite quote that I think says it all: “It’s something that will change software development…” Of course this is a gem too: “… a lot of [...]
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I Read Blogs.
Yes, it’s true. I get much of my information based on blogs and links to other sites from blogs. Considering that most of the mainstream news is the same from site to site to site, I only need to read one news site, and I feel as if I’ve read them all. CNN is the [...]
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Foxpro Users Groups – My experience
Cathy Poutney blogged the other day about Foxpro User Groups. Evidently they’re having some trouble keeping things going. We’re lucky to have a very active Foxpro Users Group here in Atlanta. http://afug.com I think we continue to be successful because of our group effort. Russell Campbell is a great president, partly because he never gives [...]
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InfoWorld article on REALbasic
Here is a short but sweet article on REALbasic from InfoWorld. The main gist of the article is that RB2008R1 will be gaining the features of introspection and possibly some web features. What I’m wondering is if these two things are directly related. To create an AJAX version of a RB form, say, a program [...]
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Making REALbasic impersonate VFP
When transitioning from one language to another, there’s always an awkward time where you’re thinking like the old language, and struggling with the new. In the past it has been of help to create functions in the new language to help the transition process. Eventually the “transition” function set is abandoned for the pure implementation [...]
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Frustration with KGhostView
I dictate that we run MEPIS Linux in our house. It’s a great balance between usability by using KDE, open-sourced software, and free software. I like it. MEPIS comes with KGhostView and KPDF for PDF reading. It used to come with the Adobe Acrobat Reader but I think they didn’t include that in the latest [...]
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FoxForward – Registration deadline approaches
I just wanted to give you a friendly reminder that the next price bump or FoxForward is coming up this weekend. Either way, it is still great value at $450 by this weekend, or $550 thereafter. We’d love to have you attend the conference. There will be plenty of Fox presentations, as well as other [...]
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Top 10 Greatest Technologies of the last 40 years
Today, for no apparent reason whatsoever, I’m going to list what I consider the top technologies of the last 40 years. Just out of the blue. No reason. Last 40 years. What were the top technologies to be developed or exploited? Let’s begin… in no particular order: The Microwave Oven. Just sneaking in at 40 [...]
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Lefebvre certifies Microsoft as “Insane”
I met Paul at the REAL World conference this year. Very sharp guy. Paul says that M$ isn’t dead, it’s gone off it’s rails insane. Read more at his blog at Software Made Simple. The Visual Foxpro crowd is left adrift same as the VB6 crowd that Paul mentions. M$ expects us to enter their [...]
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