The developers of the GPLed C# IDE wrote some well-presented documentation that discusses in part their add-in architecture:
"SODA - SharpDevelop Open Development Architecture
Almost all mid to large size software projects have some sort of add-in architecture. An add-in is basically an extension to the functionality of the main application. The common way to introduce an add-in structure is to load libraries from a specific directory at runtime. (Author: Mike Krueger)"
I was involved with a project with these guys...
Clarity Content Manager
Kind of a neat licencing structure too... open source customizable code (not GPL'd though).
I think the cafeteria staff could handle using it just fine.
Last major project they had was for Terasen. The Clarity product was used in the pipelines division, while M$ Content Manager was used by the other divisions. The pipelines division had a much easier time of it with respect to workflow of editing and approvals. Saved a wack of $ compared to the rest of the company, too.
Pub names... so many visited, memory weak now. Reading the rest of the article, I see from the Map what I thought was Murphy's is now (or always was) McGann's.
I've been to Doolin (years ago) and can honestly say say it was one of the coolest weekends of my life. [If you've ever seen the movie Ryan's Daughter, it was filned there.]
Be sure to take the morning boat across to the small island of Inishsheer (phonetically - can't remember the Irish spelling). If you're lucky, dolphins will swim alongside the boat. Check out the beach - you'd swear it was right out of a caribbean travel catalogue (the Gulf Stream ends at Ireland - there are actually Palm trees in some parts!). Right near it is an ancient church sunk into th hill. There was also a small cottage/restaurant flying a pirate flag. Totally organic. Fish caught hours before. Only a little salt added. Incredible. How food used to taste, I guess.
Two main pubs in town. O'Conner's and Murphy's. The former has the better food, and the latter had better music. Can't really go wrong - so check them both out!
The music. Pubs have "musicians' corner" where you can sit and start playing if you have talent. Whoever shows up: guitar, singer, fiddle - whatever. They may never have met, but they all know common songs and add their own twists to it. Sometime the whole whole pub will just stop talking and listen - knowing that that combination will never happen again. Magic.
Crawling back to my B&B, I looked to my right: A full moon was silhouetting a castle.
Fscking incredible.
Rory.
Quicktime 5 was retracted due to faulty research..
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...and Quicktime 7, though it would be very unstable, is suspected to exist.
//next accountant user, please respond in a better than Enron manner!
R.
Agreed - even among the IT literate...
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.. it can be a bit of a challenge.
I was involved with a startup that had quasi-confidential info floating around. Idea - let's all use PGP! Huge headache just getting a Network Associate to talk to us. You'd have trouble finding someone to GIVE money to, it seemed at the time.
And then... How long until I had the GUI design and Macintosh guys shamefully admitting they'd forgotten their passwords?
Mass adoption might just require the kind of, uhhh... "central guidance" that would defeat the purpose of it anyway.
When a company I was with in Calgary, Alberta, Canada was rolling out DSL a few years back, they ran into an interesting problem:
The local telco would not play nice, and would not let us co-locate in a given neighbourhood c.o.. (Seems our new technology was going to seriously undercut their $$$ T1 and ATM business. Go figure.)
The solution? We bought HOUSES near the c.o. for our equipment! (This was technically inelegant because it added to the loop-length, but it was cool because they gave rent-free housing to select staff).
So, local regulations and big telco helpfulness can have a big impact on the economics of a DSL-type rollout.
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'The people that complain the most that "it has no apps" are people looking for Adobe software and Macromedia software.'
Consider potential user base from Adobe's perspective:
Based on some limited exposure to the design agency community, I'd suggest that the majority of Adobe's most serious and loyal potential users work in a Mac shop already = They've already been using an alternative Windows.
Entertainment and limited leisure time.
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The point of games is entertainment. We've all got limited leisure time. You have to WORK to get a linux box tuned for games. Even then the return on your investment has a smaller pay-off than the windows-environment hassles, because there are fewer choices.
I have a couple of boxen, both W2K and *nix. I really wanted to make it happen, but I just found that I enjoyed playing more than configuring.
I'm just sorry the chickens and eggs did get sorted out(if the "leak" is indeed real).
Slashdot Mirror
Also disappointed in my typo, but it WAS just a Beta comment! :)
Agreed, this is not new. However Beta is new. Sometimes it's good to stick with the old.
Dissapointing. On the upside, it may free up time for other activities after over a decade of visits.
Hope someone can make a good call on this.
Bigger R
"one fairly affluent community..."
Don't you mean "effluent"?
ba-dum-da-tshhh.
The developers of the GPLed C# IDE wrote some well-presented documentation that discusses in part their add-in architecture: "SODA - SharpDevelop Open Development Architecture Almost all mid to large size software projects have some sort of add-in architecture. An add-in is basically an extension to the functionality of the main application. The common way to introduce an add-in structure is to load libraries from a specific directory at runtime. (Author: Mike Krueger)"
"Polish up your Linux skills boys and get those resumes up to date."
Don't you mean Finnish up?
I was involved with a project with these guys... Clarity Content Manager Kind of a neat licencing structure too... open source customizable code (not GPL'd though). I think the cafeteria staff could handle using it just fine. Last major project they had was for Terasen. The Clarity product was used in the pipelines division, while M$ Content Manager was used by the other divisions. The pipelines division had a much easier time of it with respect to workflow of editing and approvals. Saved a wack of $ compared to the rest of the company, too.
Maybe he's unhappy about certain "modifications" to his core technology?
Just like Zimmerman hinting that newer versions of NAI PGP (post 6.58?) might have issues.
And why he refers to it as a delicate situation.
Just a thought.
Pub names... so many visited, memory weak now. Reading the rest of the article, I see from the Map what I thought was Murphy's is now (or always was) McGann's.
R.
I've been to Doolin (years ago) and can honestly say say it was one of the coolest weekends of my life. [If you've ever seen the movie Ryan's Daughter, it was filned there.]
Be sure to take the morning boat across to the small island of Inishsheer (phonetically - can't remember the Irish spelling). If you're lucky, dolphins will swim alongside the boat. Check out the beach - you'd swear it was right out of a caribbean travel catalogue (the Gulf Stream ends at Ireland - there are actually Palm trees in some parts!). Right near it is an ancient church sunk into th hill. There was also a small cottage/restaurant flying a pirate flag. Totally organic. Fish caught hours before. Only a little salt added. Incredible. How food used to taste, I guess.
Two main pubs in town. O'Conner's and Murphy's. The former has the better food, and the latter had better music. Can't really go wrong - so check them both out!
The music. Pubs have "musicians' corner" where you can sit and start playing if you have talent. Whoever shows up: guitar, singer, fiddle - whatever. They may never have met, but they all know common songs and add their own twists to it. Sometime the whole whole pub will just stop talking and listen - knowing that that combination will never happen again. Magic.
Crawling back to my B&B, I looked to my right:
A full moon was silhouetting a castle.
Fscking incredible.
Rory.
...and Quicktime 7, though it would be very unstable, is suspected to exist.
I have this sinking feeling prior earnings may have been overstated...
...the chance that I choose or forget to upgrade?!
I think I'll take door #2, Bob.
IANAA but...
//next accountant user, please respond in a better than Enron manner!
R.
.. it can be a bit of a challenge.
I was involved with a startup that had quasi-confidential info floating around. Idea - let's all use PGP! Huge headache just getting a Network Associate to talk to us. You'd have trouble finding someone to GIVE money to, it seemed at the time.
And then...
How long until I had the GUI design and Macintosh guys shamefully admitting they'd forgotten their passwords?
Mass adoption might just require the kind of, uhhh... "central guidance" that would defeat the purpose of it anyway.
R.
"V" ery funny.
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When a company I was with in Calgary, Alberta, Canada was rolling out DSL a few years back, they ran into an interesting problem:
The local telco would not play nice, and would not let us co-locate in a given neighbourhood c.o.. (Seems our new technology was going to seriously undercut their $$$ T1 and ATM business. Go figure.)
The solution? We bought HOUSES near the c.o. for our equipment! (This was technically inelegant because it added to the loop-length, but it was cool because they gave rent-free housing to select staff).
So, local regulations and big telco helpfulness can have a big impact on the economics of a DSL-type rollout.
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Once again with feeling (sorry I forgot, under deadline):
Jump Project
SuperWaba
Good progress is being made in native compiler for Palm OS. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump/
and also http://www.superwaba.org for info on the related JVM for PDAs that it replaces.
Good stuff.
Here's a blurb on an adapter that should do the trick for you...- hp pa-200111/msg00001.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2001/debian
'The people that complain the most that "it has no apps" are people looking for Adobe software and Macromedia software.'
Consider potential user base from Adobe's perspective:
Based on some limited exposure to the design agency community, I'd suggest that the majority of Adobe's most serious and loyal potential users work in a Mac shop already = They've already been using an alternative Windows.
The point of games is entertainment. We've all got limited leisure time. You have to WORK to get a linux box tuned for games. Even then the return on your investment has a smaller pay-off than the windows-environment hassles, because there are fewer choices.
I have a couple of boxen, both W2K and *nix. I really wanted to make it happen, but I just found that I enjoyed playing more than configuring.
I'm just sorry the chickens and eggs did get sorted out(if the "leak" is indeed real).
Moderator - Offtopic?
The weak joke was on topic, no?
Maybe we need a Marginally Funny category?
Bummer.
..REALLY be fast on that puppy!