Ummm, I'm a bit disappointed that: 1) the code has not been made available (although the author claims he will send it to you if you send him an email) 2) no apache 2.0 support (though he claims it is coming).
I'm tempted to rewrite it to support both 1.3 and 2.0 and open source it.
A lot of development these days does not require very much OS specific development. C# is actually an elegant language from what I've seen, and has a lot of similarites (and even improvements IMO) to java. The.net framework also seems to mirror many of the java frameworks. Perhaps your best bet is to take the opportunity your company is giving you to learn C# and.NET - and use that as your transition. Being a c++ unix developer, it seems to me that there are a lot more Java/J2EE or C#/.net jobs out there than platform specific c++ positions (much to my dismay:). Take on linux as a pet project, it doesn't need to be your career.
Erlang does have some great applications - but I don't think one can say OOP doesn't scale well(forgive me if I am misreading your post). For example, C++ has been proven to be extremely scalable. Not only can it be scalable performance wise (read speed and size), but it has proven to be scalable project wise (read large collaborative project).
Nah, I used linux as my soul desktop for 4 years. Problem is, StarOffice is bloatware.. and many of the things I want to do (other than developing software) don't quite work right on linux (like recording digital audio for example). OSX solves all of the above problems.
Nah, I just haven't posted before. I personally feel like there is thriving competition in the software market and that the court decisions are based on misunderstandings. You truly think that there is no competition?
your better off paying 799 bucs for an iMac than wasting your time and their time trying to make linux useful to you. Linux is pretty stone age as a desktop environment - and with MacOSX you get most of the benefits (and the cost really isn't that much more).
Problem is: Linux blows. download it all you want... its still barely usable. I think we're better off spending our money on MaxOSX since it is more than a bandwagon, it is actually a threat to M$.
whatever. Get off the netscape/linux bandwagon and take a look at the obstacles micro$oft has overcome. Just cuz they kicked everyone's ass, doesn't mean they have a monopoly. I say let them be... and lets try to beat them fair and square with some software that is actually useable (read MacOSX, not Linux/StarOffice/etc....).
ummm, no. the fact that you DONT buy ms software proves that it is not a monopoly. imaging if linux desktop tools didn't bite so much ass... then microsoft would be f*#&ed. but instead, i say f*#&linux. mac osX is the only possible answer to the ms machine. Stop wasting your energy on linux, and move out of the stone age.
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Ummm,
I'm a bit disappointed that:
1) the code has not been made available (although the author claims he will send it to you if you send him an email)
2) no apache 2.0 support (though he claims it is coming).
I'm tempted to rewrite it to support both 1.3 and 2.0 and open source it.
A lot of development these days does not require very much OS specific development. C# is actually an elegant language from what I've seen, and has a lot of similarites (and even improvements IMO) to java. The .net framework also seems to mirror many of the java frameworks. Perhaps your best bet is to take the opportunity your company is giving you to learn C# and .NET - and use that as your transition. Being a c++ unix developer, it seems to me that there are a lot more Java/J2EE or C#/.net jobs out there than platform specific c++ positions (much to my dismay :). Take on linux as a pet project, it doesn't need to be your career.
Erlang does have some great applications - but I don't think one can say OOP doesn't scale well(forgive me if I am misreading your post). For example, C++ has been proven to be extremely scalable. Not only can it be scalable performance wise (read speed and size), but it has proven to be scalable project wise (read large collaborative project).
Nah, I used linux as my soul desktop for 4 years. Problem is, StarOffice is bloatware.. and many of the things I want to do (other than developing software) don't quite work right on linux (like recording digital audio for example). OSX solves all of the above problems.
Nah, I just haven't posted before. I personally feel like there is thriving competition in the software market and that the court decisions are based on misunderstandings. You truly think that there is no competition?
your better off paying 799 bucs for an iMac than wasting your time and their time trying to make linux useful to you. Linux is pretty stone age as a desktop environment - and with MacOSX you get most of the benefits (and the cost really isn't that much more).
Problem is: Linux blows. download it all you want... its still barely usable. I think we're better off spending our money on MaxOSX since it is more than a bandwagon, it is actually a threat to M$.
whatever. Get off the netscape/linux bandwagon and take a look at the obstacles micro$oft has overcome. Just cuz they kicked everyone's ass, doesn't mean they have a monopoly. I say let them be... and lets try to beat them fair and square with some software that is actually useable (read MacOSX, not Linux/StarOffice/etc....).
ummm, no. the fact that you DONT buy ms software proves that it is not a monopoly. imaging if linux desktop tools didn't bite so much ass... then microsoft would be f*#&ed. but instead, i say f*#&linux. mac osX is the only possible answer to the ms machine. Stop wasting your energy on linux, and move out of the stone age.