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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The Excite-ment is gone!
Okay. Not gone. Just down. It’s weird that a major site such as this is suffering from a full failure. You sure don’t see that every day. Excite is my home page, partly because they allow me to see my anniversary dates such as birthdays, etc. plus the news as I want to see it. [...]
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My conversation with Overstock.com
Welcome to Overstock.com’s Customer Service Live Chat! You will be joined with a chat representative as quickly as possible. (Less than 2 minutes) Welcome to Overstock.com Customer Service, you are now chatting with Skyler. Skyler: Thanks for visiting Overstock.com, this is Skyler, how can I help you? you: I’m searching for furniture. I am unable [...]
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REAL World – Day Zero
I left my wife and kids and dog at 11am this morning and began my long journey to the REAL World conference, held in Austin, Texas. While DevCon is going on in California, I’m drinking from the fire hose of REALbasic. The flight was uneventful, which is an event all to itself! The flight wasn’t [...]
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Moneydance : Accounting for Win, Mac, and … gasp! … Linux!!!
http://Moneydance.com I haven’t even given it a try … yet. But I’ve been looking for something like this. I have been using the very aged “Checkbook Tracker” to track my business checkbook. It does my math for me, and that’s about it. I run most of my business on Linux machines, and I’ve been looking [...]
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FoxForward 2007 – Speaker List Finalized
We have received word from the balance of the FoxForward presenters. Just today, we have finalized the list. We’re grateful to welcome back Alan Stevens as a repeat presenter. We’re also welcoming two new presenters; Woodie Westbrook from Alabama to speak on n-tier design, and we’re also glad to welcome four time Visual FoxPro MVP, [...]
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FoxForward – Takes its first attendee registration
Only hours after opening up registration, we’ve had our first attendee plunk down the coin to attend our conference. Very exciting. I was worried about not getting enough attendees. Now, my aprehensions have shifted to worrying about having to shut down registration for getting too many. I’m guessing that if we get more than 100 [...]
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FoxForward ’07 – Deadline is today; registration opens!
If you haven’t submitted a topic for FoxForward 2007, there’s still some time! Today is the deadline for presentation submissions. The topics and presentations last year were top notch. We’re looking for Fox topics, and we’re also interested in adding more eclectic topics as well. If you’re working with some cool technology, that might make [...]
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REALbasic – Release 2
REALsoftware released their second of four planned releases of the year today; RB2007 release 2. It features an incremental compiler, improvements to the code editor, and lots of enhancements to the debugger. The debugger really needed some improvements. I was spoiled by the debugger in VFP comparatively. A good sign about RB is that, according [...]
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