I am a heavy Adobe user on Windows. I publish books, and in my experience, Adobe products are expensive and sometimes difficult to get working properly. (For example, PageMaker and various fonts.) Adobe does not even publish a support email address!!! As Adobe shows its true colors, Apple users may get the message and move on to other alternatives, like GIMP. I wish there were a painless (easy transition and friendly usage) PageMaker-like application for Linux. Suggestions, anyone?
I like the out-of-box thinking here. Hierarchical was brilliant, but this scheme matches the human brain in a new and useful way.
I wish Linux (and Unix) file systems offered an integrated option for dual-fork files, like those on the Mac. That feature would facilitate clean implementation of ideas like the subject new file structure, and much else...
I'm a perl guy and I looked at a number of books before buying Professional PHP. I wanted to get up to speed fast. My critique:
Good: More helpful for quick-start than the web sites. Reasonably complete, with good examples. Good PostgreSql coverage (and MySQL, of course).
Bad: Some of the more obsucre aspects seem to have been simply copied from the web (same language, same examples). This is not helpful, if the original web-text was inadequate or obsolete.
Looking at it from a more global perspective, why do we keep voting these coporate-sponsored whores into public office? That's the root of the problem, isn't it?
I don't think anyone really knows if the merger will eventually be good or bad for HP. The most important aspect of the merger-vote is that a failed merger would probably end Carly's destructive medieval reign at HP.
As a previous 20-yr HP employee (now retired), I interpret Carley's threat to kill the PC business (and fire even more employees) as a ploy to motivate employee stockholders to vote in favor of the merger. However, she under-estimates the intelligence of the average HP emmployee.
I installed SQL-Ledger about a week ago. Once you get the database working, the install is easy. It is written in perl, so fast enough and *very* extensible. The architecture is sensible enough that I was adding features within days of the installation. The user community is diverse and helpful, and the support ($99/yr) is the best I have ever experienced.
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I am a heavy Adobe user on Windows. I publish books, and in my experience, Adobe products are expensive and sometimes difficult to get working properly. (For example, PageMaker and various fonts.) Adobe does not even publish a support email address!!! As Adobe shows its true colors, Apple users may get the message and move on to other alternatives, like GIMP. I wish there were a painless (easy transition and friendly usage) PageMaker-like application for Linux. Suggestions, anyone?
I wish Linux (and Unix) file systems offered an integrated option for dual-fork files, like those on the Mac. That feature would facilitate clean implementation of ideas like the subject new file structure, and much else...
Good: More helpful for quick-start than the web sites. Reasonably complete, with good examples. Good PostgreSql coverage (and MySQL, of course).
Bad: Some of the more obsucre aspects seem to have been simply copied from the web (same language, same examples). This is not helpful, if the original web-text was inadequate or obsolete.
Looking at it from a more global perspective, why do we keep voting these coporate-sponsored whores into public office? That's the root of the problem, isn't it?
I don't think anyone really knows if the merger will eventually be good or bad for HP. The most important aspect of the merger-vote is that a failed merger would probably end Carly's destructive medieval reign at HP.
As a previous 20-yr HP employee (now retired), I interpret Carley's threat to kill the PC business (and fire even more employees) as a ploy to motivate employee stockholders to vote in favor of the merger. However, she under-estimates the intelligence of the average HP emmployee.
I installed SQL-Ledger about a week ago. Once you get the database working, the install is easy. It is written in perl, so fast enough and *very* extensible. The architecture is sensible enough that I was adding features within days of the installation. The user community is diverse and helpful, and the support ($99/yr) is the best I have ever experienced.