This comment really shouldn't be marked as flamebait. It might be sad but it is true. A+ certifications in particular carry 0 weight in the US job market.
The reason bing has grown in marketshare is 2 fold, and neither reason is due to it being any better than Google. Personally, I think it sucks. Based on my biased, unscientific research Bing results seemed to weigh Microsoft related URL's higher.
1. It is the default search engine for Windows. It is not trivial to change it to something else (google) with a fresh copy of Windows 7 (in face it is a PITA). Most users have MSN as their home page not because they like it, but because it is the default home page on their windows machine and they don't know how to change it.
2. It is cannabilizing from other MS searches. The marketshare for Live Search, MSN, etc has decreased.
Microsoft tries to be too many things at once. They have corporate ADD and it shows. Bing is a fad and will be phased out in 24 months. It was developed ONLY to compete with google and lower market share, not bring anything new or innovative to the table.
Maybe they should spend less time crying and more time innovating. Nintendo with Wii-ware (sp?) and Valve with STEAM seemed to have figured out a decent solution. Physical game media is no different than CD's. Just a matter of time before they are relics of the past.
I hope T-mobile launches a few more Android based phones and becomes the defacto Android vendor. I've had services with all carriers and so far they have been my favorite. They are cheap, don't lock the phones down as much as Verizon or AT&T and the coverage is decent.
I switched from a Blackberry w/Data Plan on Verizon to a G1 on T-mobile and my phone bill was literally cut in half.
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I've done several sites using Drupal and ran into some of the upgrade and module installation SNAFUs mentioned here.
I found DRUSH to be one of the most useful modules available for handling module updates and installation. It is basically a CLI swiss army knife for tasks like module management, cache management, log management, etc. In short it is just plain awesome.
By using Drush and having Drupal Core checked out via CVS it is trivial to keep everything up to date in an automated fashion.
I'd imagine the morale of developers employed by Yahoo would take a huge dip is well. AFAIK most of the Yahoo infrastructure is based on open source technologies. If MS were to purchase Yahoo I'd be willing to bet money they would waste years migrating Yahoo to the MS stack, just for the sake of it being on MS technology. Exactly what they did with Hotmail. Much work with no real
The basic point is the merger would really be like mixing oil and water. Even from a fiscal standpoint i don't see it being a gain for Yahoo investors. The two companies just don't complement each other.
Very few colleges/universites these days have much in the curriculum teaching even basic *nix administration. I work for a college and we are a heavy MS shop both on the academic level and the systems level. We recently dropped all internal mysql application support due to lack of skill *nix admins on our staff.
Long story short...When students graduate they are more comfortable working with systems they know. Perhaps this trend is indicative of that.
Not sure where i've been. Prior to this i had never even heard of thinkfree. I just took it for a test ride and am quite impressed. I completely agree. Thinkfree is lightyears ahead of ajaxwrite. In theory it could also be utilized "offline" due to it being a in javat. Knock on java all you want. It works, it is widely accepted, and it has an absolutely incredible developerbase/community. Ajax has it's place but that place isn't as a deskop app replacement.
This is just a bad idea. A few arguments against it, which are reiterating other concerns:
1. The subsidies for broadband come from somewhere.....our taxes! So we pay for it anyways. This money would be well spent elsewhere.
2. Any gov't funded infrastructure becomes the gov't bitch. If they "own it" they "pimp it". Meaning they do what ever the hell they want with it. Censoring, spying, etc, etc.
I'd rather have lower taxes and less government involvement than pork barrells like this. I can see it now... they will start the Bureau for Internet Affairs and royally screw it up, wasting billions of our dollars.
My company uses image magick to resize and add watermarks to tens of thousands of website classified images. We created several wrapper methods to access it in our app.
AFAIK it is more extensive than alot of the native image manipulation libs that come with certain languages (java?). Comparing imageMagick to photoshop or other apps is apples to oranges. We have this running on headless FreeBSD and CentOS boxes with no X. Can't do that with photoshop!
No IT Manager in their right mind would allow users to access the components of windows u mentioned. To the end user there is a minute difference between xp and 2k with the classic skin enabled. What do they need to be retrained in? Click on the icon that says word? Office XP and 2k maybe but end users don't know the difference with windows. This is coming from a n admin that rolled out xp on a 2k client network and 95% of the enduser even noticed.
I would learn java. It runs on more platforms, plus if you learn java you have 95% of c# learned. The job market for java programmers is excellent. Honestly can't think of any compelling reasons to not choose java over c#.
I'm using eclipse right now. I'v been using it to code java and coldfusion since the 2.0 days. 3.1 is rock solid and fast as hell. I Don't think you've really used it before!!!
Is there any relation between education and preference over language. I know my school really pushed JAVA so that is what i use. I learned OOP concepts on it so Java just makes more sense to me. When I need to do simple web stuff I'll use Bluedragon CFML over php for that same reason. I can natively invoke java classes in CFML. (Can you in php?).
I had a v710 and lost it during one of my drunken adventures. Luckily I had assurion insurance. When I went to have my phone replaced they didn't have any v710's in stock so they offered me a shitty LG vx9000. I didn't feel that was a comparable phone as required in their TOS so I demanded (advice given to me by a very nice verizon sales lady) a v815. Boom, 2 days later i had the phone. It smokes the v710 and obex is easily hackable as well as bluetooth DUN.
I hate Linux. I think it's the most over rated piece of software ever built and survives simply out of spite and not because it is terribly good at doing something because it is not!
I have the strange feeling this moron has never had the fortune of setting up (or paying for) a server of any kind.
This is slashdot so coldfusion will always suck compared to php, however I know both php and coldfusion very well and use them both extensively. When it comes to playing with java/j2ee apps coldfusion development is WAY easier and quicker IMHO. Throw CFC's into the mix for invoking webservices, etc and coldfusion can really hold it's own against php. Plus New Atlanta has BlueDragon which is free and works wonderfully on linux. New Atlanta may stand to gain from this too. Allaire used be top notch for customer support but since they got bought out buy Macromedia it has gone down hill. New Atlanta is a small very dedicated company just like Allaire once was. As you can tell I'm a New Atlanta Fan Boy!
I agree. Dreamweaver is the best WYSWIG editor going. I work for a small college in the web services department and need the WYSWIG features when updating a bunch of shitty static MS FrontPage produced pages. The "bells and whistles" included with it are actually useful. The database integration is second to none. I like it just for coding SQL with ColdFusion or PHP code, just drag and drop the field names... no typos, plus you can see the datatypes right in the window.
I have yet to find something in the OSS world that has the integration and features of dreamweaver. Eclipse has some ColdFusion Plugins but leaves out other stuff. It is a great JAVA IDE though!
Flash is flash. Thats great that it is being ported. Flash remoting (XML) is a really impressive feature for data interfacing that is overlooked IMHO.
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This comment really shouldn't be marked as flamebait. It might be sad but it is true. A+ certifications in particular carry 0 weight in the US job market.
The reason bing has grown in marketshare is 2 fold, and neither reason is due to it being any better than Google. Personally, I think it sucks. Based on my biased, unscientific research Bing results seemed to weigh Microsoft related URL's higher.
1. It is the default search engine for Windows. It is not trivial to change it to something else (google) with a fresh copy of Windows 7 (in face it is a PITA). Most users have MSN as their home page not because they like it, but because it is the default home page on their windows machine and they don't know how to change it.
2. It is cannabilizing from other MS searches. The marketshare for Live Search, MSN, etc has decreased.
Microsoft tries to be too many things at once. They have corporate ADD and it shows. Bing is a fad and will be phased out in 24 months. It was developed ONLY to compete with google and lower market share, not bring anything new or innovative to the table.
Maybe they should spend less time crying and more time innovating. Nintendo with Wii-ware (sp?) and Valve with STEAM seemed to have figured out a decent solution. Physical game media is no different than CD's. Just a matter of time before they are relics of the past.
I hope T-mobile launches a few more Android based phones and becomes the defacto Android vendor. I've had services with all carriers and so far they have been my favorite. They are cheap, don't lock the phones down as much as Verizon or AT&T and the coverage is decent.
I switched from a Blackberry w/Data Plan on Verizon to a G1 on T-mobile and my phone bill was literally cut in half.
I've done several sites using Drupal and ran into some of the upgrade and module installation SNAFUs mentioned here.
I found DRUSH to be one of the most useful modules available for handling module updates and installation. It is basically a CLI swiss army knife for tasks like module management, cache management, log management, etc. In short it is just plain awesome.
By using Drush and having Drupal Core checked out via CVS it is trivial to keep everything up to date in an automated fashion.
Curse you anonymous coward! You made me snarf diet pepsi all over my keyboard!
I'd imagine the morale of developers employed by Yahoo would take a huge dip is well. AFAIK most of the Yahoo infrastructure is based on open source technologies. If MS were to purchase Yahoo I'd be willing to bet money they would waste years migrating Yahoo to the MS stack, just for the sake of it being on MS technology. Exactly what they did with Hotmail. Much work with no real
The basic point is the merger would really be like mixing oil and water. Even from a fiscal standpoint i don't see it being a gain for Yahoo investors. The two companies just don't complement each other.
portsnap is your friend.
portsnap fetch update
port upgrade firefox
done.
Not only is it great documentation. Sergio is very helpful and active in the javascript/prototype community. He has assited me several times.
Probably because scriptaculous is an effects library built on top of prototype, without prototype it is useless.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.h tm&r=6&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=anything&p=1&OS=anything &RS=anything
Oracle has patented the technology for "Finding what group a user is in". This is absolutely pathetic.
Very few colleges/universites these days have much in the curriculum teaching even basic *nix administration. I work for a college and we are a heavy MS shop both on the academic level and the systems level. We recently dropped all internal mysql application support due to lack of skill *nix admins on our staff.
Long story short...When students graduate they are more comfortable working with systems they know. Perhaps this trend is indicative of that.
I think you hit the nail right on the head. I'd mod you up if I had points.
Not sure where i've been. Prior to this i had never even heard of thinkfree. I just took it for a test ride and am quite impressed. I completely agree. Thinkfree is lightyears ahead of ajaxwrite. In theory it could also be utilized "offline" due to it being a in javat. Knock on java all you want. It works, it is widely accepted, and it has an absolutely incredible developerbase/community. Ajax has it's place but that place isn't as a deskop app replacement.
This is just a bad idea. A few arguments against it, which are reiterating other concerns:
1. The subsidies for broadband come from somewhere.....our taxes! So we pay for it anyways. This money would be well spent elsewhere.
2. Any gov't funded infrastructure becomes the gov't bitch. If they "own it" they "pimp it". Meaning they do what ever the hell they want with it. Censoring, spying, etc, etc.
I'd rather have lower taxes and less government involvement than pork barrells like this. I can see it now... they will start the Bureau for Internet Affairs and royally screw it up, wasting billions of our dollars.
My company uses image magick to resize and add watermarks to tens of thousands of website classified images. We created several wrapper methods to access it in our app.
, 200);
Poor Example:
myImage1 = imageMagickResize(thisImage.jpg,destImage.jpg,300
AFAIK it is more extensive than alot of the native image manipulation libs that come with certain languages (java?). Comparing imageMagick to photoshop or other apps is apples to oranges. We have this running on headless FreeBSD and CentOS boxes with no X. Can't do that with photoshop!
No IT Manager in their right mind would allow users to access the components of windows u mentioned. To the end user there is a minute difference between xp and 2k with the classic skin enabled. What do they need to be retrained in? Click on the icon that says word? Office XP and 2k maybe but end users don't know the difference with windows. This is coming from a n admin that rolled out xp on a 2k client network and 95% of the enduser even noticed.
I would learn java. It runs on more platforms, plus if you learn java you have 95% of c# learned. The job market for java programmers is excellent. Honestly can't think of any compelling reasons to not choose java over c#.
Plus chicks dig java programmers.
Glad I didn't vote for that giant douche, i voted for turd sandwich.
I'm using eclipse right now. I'v been using it to code java and coldfusion since the 2.0 days. 3.1 is rock solid and fast as hell. I Don't think you've really used it before!!!
Is there any relation between education and preference over language. I know my school really pushed JAVA so that is what i use. I learned OOP concepts on it so Java just makes more sense to me. When I need to do simple web stuff I'll use Bluedragon CFML over php for that same reason. I can natively invoke java classes in CFML. (Can you in php?).
I had a v710 and lost it during one of my drunken adventures. Luckily I had assurion insurance. When I went to have my phone replaced they didn't have any v710's in stock so they offered me a shitty LG vx9000. I didn't feel that was a comparable phone as required in their TOS so I demanded (advice given to me by a very nice verizon sales lady) a v815. Boom, 2 days later i had the phone. It smokes the v710 and obex is easily hackable as well as bluetooth DUN.
WICKED PISSAH!
I hate Linux. I think it's the most over rated piece of software ever built and survives simply out of spite and not because it is terribly good at doing something because it is not!
I have the strange feeling this moron has never had the fortune of setting up (or paying for) a server of any kind.
This is slashdot so coldfusion will always suck compared to php, however I know both php and coldfusion very well and use them both extensively. When it comes to playing with java/j2ee apps coldfusion development is WAY easier and quicker IMHO. Throw CFC's into the mix for invoking webservices, etc and coldfusion can really hold it's own against php. Plus New Atlanta has BlueDragon which is free and works wonderfully on linux. New Atlanta may stand to gain from this too. Allaire used be top notch for customer support but since they got bought out buy Macromedia it has gone down hill. New Atlanta is a small very dedicated company just like Allaire once was. As you can tell I'm a New Atlanta Fan Boy!
time = money
I agree. Dreamweaver is the best WYSWIG editor going. I work for a small college in the web services department and need the WYSWIG features when updating a bunch of shitty static MS FrontPage produced pages. The "bells and whistles" included with it are actually useful. The database integration is second to none. I like it just for coding SQL with ColdFusion or PHP code, just drag and drop the field names... no typos, plus you can see the datatypes right in the window.
I have yet to find something in the OSS world that has the integration and features of dreamweaver. Eclipse has some ColdFusion Plugins but leaves out other stuff. It is a great JAVA IDE though!
Flash is flash. Thats great that it is being ported. Flash remoting (XML) is a really impressive feature for data interfacing that is overlooked IMHO.
Who cares about Fireworks.