The project also announced a great internship program, helping pair students with mentors with deep mainframe experience to help build the open source platform.
More like who needs a Mainframe when you can just as easily install Linux on your typical 64 CPU 8TB POWER8 from IBM or whatever shit Sun^W Oracle is selling.
Get this, the largest IBM POWER system is more powerful and capable, not to mention faster than the biggest zSeries. The only people running Linux on Mainframes are idiots and people who already have a big Mainframe for some massive legacy application like SABRE or TPF; because you can have much faster communication between a Linux VM and z/OS or z/TPF than you can over external cabling.
Hmm, I don't agree with that comment. There are many I/O intensive jobs that Z architecture makes much more sense for than POWER or x86. Think real time big data analytics, financial services, etc. You can run TCO simulations where Z cost less that POWER or x86 in no time.
Here's a blog post I did about this as well earlier this year, with a funny story on how I got myself recognized in my company thanks to a bug in one of our systems.
When my DirecTV bill was starting to approach $80 a month, and realized we didn't watch much of anything other than the broadcast networks, we ditched it.
Now our setup is OTA Antenna, fed into a Tivo HD, and we use Netflix streaming to supliment everything we can't get OTA. OTA HD is noticeably better quality than cable or satellite, and not hard to pick up provided you don't live in a valley. Built a home antenna out of wire coat hangers, and can pull in 30+ channels ranging from 10 to 60 miles away. Total monthly cost: around $20 a month between Netflix and Tivo ( we pay for the Tivo service once a year for $129 ).
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This license forbids both commercial use and creation of derivative works. Now, download a copy of the community edition here. Unzip it and look at the "license.txt" file.
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So, which is the mistake?
This first license is for the documentation only; the Sugar CE codebase is licensed under the AGPL.
SugarCRM and OpenGoo are entirely different beasts; OpenGoo is Google Apps you can install on your own hardward; while SugarCRM is designed for Sales Force Automation, as well as a platform for design business applications.
That said, SugarCRM is a great platform for building business web applications on to replace aging VB, Foxpro, and other legacy database applications, that can be designed with a point and click interface and extended easily with PHP. I think most of the applications I've done for my previous SMB employer in the past I could have built on SugarCRM is half of the time and with more features.
Our site which is mostly visited by those in the commercial credit industry went from 2% Firefox this spring to 4% now. I have also seen a significant drop in IE 5.5 and 5.0 ( from 5-6% down to 1% ), but IE 6 holds on at around 93-94%.
Safari is barely a blip on the radar; for a while we got more IE 5.2 hits than Safari ones....
> Perl's DBI, whose docs tell you to ALWAYS write SQL like:
> $sth = $dbh->preprare('SELECT foo,bar FROM baz WHERE something=? AND another = ?') > $sth->execute(q{''Some\ things"'}, 10);
PDO does exactly this:
$dbh = new PDO("connstring"); $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT foo,bar FROM baz WHERE something=? AND another = ?'); $sth->execute(array($something, $another));
When I applied for my current job, they were looking for 5 years Visual Foxpro experience. I had none ( had to look up what VFP was before going to the interview ). But they were really happy with my relational database skills; they gave me the basic "design a database for managing widgets" and I was the only applicant to actually get it 100% correct ( that includes hires since me ).
I picked up VFP in about 2 months very proficently, and built several large applications from the ground up using it. I've also reworked thier web site into a full-featured web application using PHP/MySQL. I'm also in the process of moving us completely to MySQL for all data storage ( and away from DBF files ). I've turned out to be one of the best IT hires the company has ever had.
Agreed, this is really the best programming book I've ever owned. It is more than a great PHP book, but a great software development book, as it covers things like coding standards, unit testing, error handling, source code management, and much more. I can't recommend this enough to any programmer, especially one moving to the "next step" with PHP coding.
I heard him speak last fall in Toronto and he was the first person to ever make OOP sound practical to do in web projects.
And unfortuantely, you didn't read the full article in which you linked to.
While the main issue is that the password ( which changing MySQL to use the old password encription type is a solution, it's a hack. I'd hope RH set thier MySQL build to do this by default ), you still lack the extra function calls the new library (mysqli) has the the old one doesn't ( mainly to do with replication, but still handy nonetheless ).
For me, I'd rather sit on be with PHP 4/MySQL 4 or make the brave jump to PHP 5/MySQL 4.1. Obviously PHP must not be high on Redhat's priority list if a hack is need to get two previously fine working things together.
Has any one used the COM Automation Interface much? I've read the specs and it seems similar to MS Office, but is any one seeing any improvements by using OO instead of MS Office. I've done quite a bit of programming with Word and Excel, and would love to move them over to OO so I could bundle it with our app.
Could agree more with Bamboo. I have three big sticks in a nice ceramic vase on my vase and it'd terrific. It's maintainence free as well; I've had it on my desk for about and year and a half and had to water it 2-3 times. It's the best kind of plant for a guy like myself that often kills them.
For us, it was great until PHP 4.3.7 and PHP RC3 introduced this bug for all Win/PHP/IIS/MySQL installations. This is a very annoying bug that has been marked bogus by the developers and still exists in the 5.0 Final. I can't move forward at all ( even to 4.3.8 to which has security updates ) until then. We're sticking at 4.3.6 for now; I can't have Access Violation error at the bottom of every page.
I've been using Lucent chipset modems and they have been the easiest to use and work reliably. Just get the driver from the link in the parent's post, un-tar, run./build_module, then./ltinst2, then./autoload, then dial-up and go. I've used this setup reliablily under Mandrake and Fedora/Red Hat for years ( since RH 6.2 ).
I find that Redhat/Fedora make it the easiest for a dial-up user with the system-control-network package ( formerly called redhat-control-network ) which allows a normal user to bring up and down the link graphically. I drop the launcher in the gnome-panel and it's painless for the wife to get online and offline.
I used one of the ones with 2 PS/2 adapters on it for a friend of mine's computer, and it worked flawlessly. It was a P3/733 and was running Win2k. It was even recognized at boot time so I could work in the BIOS with it. Windows installed it and didn't even need to let me know about it.
up2date is designed for getting updates ONLY ( much like Windows Update / Automatic Updates ).
Fedora has both yum and apt ( which work identically, meaning you can install/update software from it, and it does automatic depedency resolution ), but it doesn't come with an GUI based package management ( like Synaptic ). I agree, Add/Remove Packages should be like this out of the box, but for now you can download Synaptic and achieve the same net effect minus the nice looking GUI.
yum is the future for Fedora. Right now up2date can be configured to use any yum repository, which comes in handy to keep many 3rd party packages ( such as those for multimedia that Red Hat limits/ignors ) updated. However, I agree that this needs to be intergrated back into the Add/Remove Programs so that you can fully manage packages ( kinda like what Synaptic does, but this needs more of a polished look to it ).
I have a umbrella cockatoo that lives in my office with my two machines. He's been pretty good about things ( once he got out of his cage and chewed up the wheel off a MS Intellimouse, that's about it ), but the dust is the problem. I wipe down everythingin the room with a damp cloth at least once a week, blow the dust out of my machines, and bath him at least once every two weeks ( in the shower, he's scared of squirt bottles, with my wife and I use to our advantage;-> ) and that helps keep the dust down. We also keep him well stocked with wood and rope toys and try to take him out of his cage once a day for 2-3 hours, or else he get cranky and lets himself out for a tour of the house.
We also have 3 Dogs ( Terrier Mix, English Springer Spaniel, Golden Retriever ). I made a makeshift bed out of old blankets in my office and one of them ( usually the Terrier ) lays on that and naps, while the other two will chew on Nylabones or Dog Toys and keep themselves happy. Granted our dogs are pretty lazy and like to lay around, so YMMV.
I'll take the two following statements in reverse.
Microsoft is exceeding the "standards speed limit" becasue they realize that the internet and computers are designed for greater speeds/standards.
This statement implies that Microsoft is compling with the standards in the first place, which isn't true as any web developer will tell you. If "exceeding the standards speed limit" was thier goal, then they would fully support CSS2 and then some, but as is we're lucky to have full CSS1 support in some areas.
Speed limits on midwest highways are typically 65 MPH but people generally exceed this by about 15 MPH because they realize that the roads are engineered for greater speeds.
But also realize that slower cars will work on the same road without problems. On the Microsoft highway this isn't always the case.
But more importantly you are impling that Microsoft is interested solely interested in making extensions to exhance the web. The truth is that they want to diverge the web into a 'Microsoft Proprietry' universe ( remember the idea behind MSN in Windows 95 was to make the Internet look like Windows ). Thankfully we have the W3C to keep everything in check and keep web development moving forward.
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The project also announced a great internship program, helping pair students with mentors with deep mainframe experience to help build the open source platform.
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.o...
More like who needs a Mainframe when you can just as easily install Linux on your typical 64 CPU 8TB POWER8 from IBM or whatever shit Sun^W Oracle is selling.
Get this, the largest IBM POWER system is more powerful and capable, not to mention faster than the biggest zSeries. The only people running Linux on Mainframes are idiots and people who already have a big Mainframe for some massive legacy application like SABRE or TPF; because you can have much faster communication between a Linux VM and z/OS or z/TPF than you can over external cabling.
Hmm, I don't agree with that comment. There are many I/O intensive jobs that Z architecture makes much more sense for than POWER or x86. Think real time big data analytics, financial services, etc. You can run TCO simulations where Z cost less that POWER or x86 in no time.
Here's a blog post I did about this as well earlier this year, with a funny story on how I got myself recognized in my company thanks to a bug in one of our systems.
http://jmertic.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/making-in-roads-in-your-organization-when-you-are-2000-miles-away/
When my DirecTV bill was starting to approach $80 a month, and realized we didn't watch much of anything other than the broadcast networks, we ditched it. Now our setup is OTA Antenna, fed into a Tivo HD, and we use Netflix streaming to supliment everything we can't get OTA. OTA HD is noticeably better quality than cable or satellite, and not hard to pick up provided you don't live in a valley. Built a home antenna out of wire coat hangers, and can pull in 30+ channels ranging from 10 to 60 miles away. Total monthly cost: around $20 a month between Netflix and Tivo ( we pay for the Tivo service once a year for $129 ).
The documentation for SugarCRM Community Edition is located here: Sugar Community Edition 6.0 Documentation.
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This license forbids both commercial use and creation of derivative works. Now, download a copy of the community edition here. Unzip it and look at the "license.txt" file.
GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007
So, which is the mistake?
This first license is for the documentation only; the Sugar CE codebase is licensed under the AGPL.
SugarCRM and OpenGoo are entirely different beasts; OpenGoo is Google Apps you can install on your own hardward; while SugarCRM is designed for Sales Force Automation, as well as a platform for design business applications.
That said, SugarCRM is a great platform for building business web applications on to replace aging VB, Foxpro, and other legacy database applications, that can be designed with a point and click interface and extended easily with PHP. I think most of the applications I've done for my previous SMB employer in the past I could have built on SugarCRM is half of the time and with more features.
Our site which is mostly visited by those in the commercial credit industry went from 2% Firefox this spring to 4% now. I have also seen a significant drop in IE 5.5 and 5.0 ( from 5-6% down to 1% ), but IE 6 holds on at around 93-94%.
Safari is barely a blip on the radar; for a while we got more IE 5.2 hits than Safari ones....
> Perl's DBI, whose docs tell you to ALWAYS write SQL like:
> $sth = $dbh->preprare('SELECT foo,bar FROM baz WHERE something=? AND another = ?')
> $sth->execute(q{''Some\ things"'}, 10);
PDO does exactly this:
$dbh = new PDO("connstring");
$sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT foo,bar FROM baz WHERE something=? AND another = ?');
$sth->execute(array($something, $another));
Check it out http://www.php.net/pdo
When I applied for my current job, they were looking for 5 years Visual Foxpro experience. I had none ( had to look up what VFP was before going to the interview ). But they were really happy with my relational database skills; they gave me the basic "design a database for managing widgets" and I was the only applicant to actually get it 100% correct ( that includes hires since me ).
I picked up VFP in about 2 months very proficently, and built several large applications from the ground up using it. I've also reworked thier web site into a full-featured web application using PHP/MySQL. I'm also in the process of moving us completely to MySQL for all data storage ( and away from DBF files ). I've turned out to be one of the best IT hires the company has ever had.
Yea, e-mail me at jmertic at gmail dot com if you'd be willing to ship any of those O2s to Ohio.
Agreed, this is really the best programming book I've ever owned. It is more than a great PHP book, but a great software development book, as it covers things like coding standards, unit testing, error handling, source code management, and much more. I can't recommend this enough to any programmer, especially one moving to the "next step" with PHP coding.
I heard him speak last fall in Toronto and he was the first person to ever make OOP sound practical to do in web projects.
And unfortuantely, you didn't read the full article in which you linked to.
While the main issue is that the password ( which changing MySQL to use the old password encription type is a solution, it's a hack. I'd hope RH set thier MySQL build to do this by default ), you still lack the extra function calls the new library (mysqli) has the the old one doesn't ( mainly to do with replication, but still handy nonetheless ).
For me, I'd rather sit on be with PHP 4/MySQL 4 or make the brave jump to PHP 5/MySQL 4.1. Obviously PHP must not be high on Redhat's priority list if a hack is need to get two previously fine working things together.
Why did they put MySQL 4.1 in here when PHP 4 doesn't even support it ( mysqli extention is in PHP 5, but not PHP 4 )?
Other Favs of mine include Radio Wazee and SomaFM.
Has any one used the COM Automation Interface much? I've read the specs and it seems similar to MS Office, but is any one seeing any improvements by using OO instead of MS Office. I've done quite a bit of programming with Word and Excel, and would love to move them over to OO so I could bundle it with our app.
Could agree more with Bamboo. I have three big sticks in a nice ceramic vase on my vase and it'd terrific. It's maintainence free as well; I've had it on my desk for about and year and a half and had to water it 2-3 times. It's the best kind of plant for a guy like myself that often kills them.
For us, it was great until PHP 4.3.7 and PHP RC3 introduced this bug for all Win/PHP/IIS/MySQL installations. This is a very annoying bug that has been marked bogus by the developers and still exists in the 5.0 Final. I can't move forward at all ( even to 4.3.8 to which has security updates ) until then. We're sticking at 4.3.6 for now; I can't have Access Violation error at the bottom of every page.
I've been using Lucent chipset modems and they have been the easiest to use and work reliably. Just get the driver from the link in the parent's post, un-tar, run ./build_module, then ./ltinst2, then ./autoload, then dial-up and go. I've used this setup reliablily under Mandrake and Fedora/Red Hat for years ( since RH 6.2 ).
I find that Redhat/Fedora make it the easiest for a dial-up user with the system-control-network package ( formerly called redhat-control-network ) which allows a normal user to bring up and down the link graphically. I drop the launcher in the gnome-panel and it's painless for the wife to get online and offline.
I used one of the ones with 2 PS/2 adapters on it for a friend of mine's computer, and it worked flawlessly. It was a P3/733 and was running Win2k. It was even recognized at boot time so I could work in the BIOS with it. Windows installed it and didn't even need to let me know about it.
up2date is designed for getting updates ONLY ( much like Windows Update / Automatic Updates ).
Fedora has both yum and apt ( which work identically, meaning you can install/update software from it, and it does automatic depedency resolution ), but it doesn't come with an GUI based package management ( like Synaptic ). I agree, Add/Remove Packages should be like this out of the box, but for now you can download Synaptic and achieve the same net effect minus the nice looking GUI.
yum is the future for Fedora. Right now up2date can be configured to use any yum repository, which comes in handy to keep many 3rd party packages ( such as those for multimedia that Red Hat limits/ignors ) updated. However, I agree that this needs to be intergrated back into the Add/Remove Programs so that you can fully manage packages ( kinda like what Synaptic does, but this needs more of a polished look to it ).
Actually, yes
I have a umbrella cockatoo that lives in my office with my two machines. He's been pretty good about things ( once he got out of his cage and chewed up the wheel off a MS Intellimouse, that's about it ), but the dust is the problem. I wipe down everythingin the room with a damp cloth at least once a week, blow the dust out of my machines, and bath him at least once every two weeks ( in the shower, he's scared of squirt bottles, with my wife and I use to our advantage ;-> ) and that helps keep the dust down. We also keep him well stocked with wood and rope toys and try to take him out of his cage once a day for 2-3 hours, or else he get cranky and lets himself out for a tour of the house.
We also have 3 Dogs ( Terrier Mix, English Springer Spaniel, Golden Retriever ). I made a makeshift bed out of old blankets in my office and one of them ( usually the Terrier ) lays on that and naps, while the other two will chew on Nylabones or Dog Toys and keep themselves happy. Granted our dogs are pretty lazy and like to lay around, so YMMV.
I'll take the two following statements in reverse.
Microsoft is exceeding the "standards speed limit" becasue they realize that the internet and computers are designed for greater speeds/standards.This statement implies that Microsoft is compling with the standards in the first place, which isn't true as any web developer will tell you. If "exceeding the standards speed limit" was thier goal, then they would fully support CSS2 and then some, but as is we're lucky to have full CSS1 support in some areas.
Speed limits on midwest highways are typically 65 MPH but people generally exceed this by about 15 MPH because they realize that the roads are engineered for greater speeds.But also realize that slower cars will work on the same road without problems. On the Microsoft highway this isn't always the case.
But more importantly you are impling that Microsoft is interested solely interested in making extensions to exhance the web. The truth is that they want to diverge the web into a 'Microsoft Proprietry' universe ( remember the idea behind MSN in Windows 95 was to make the Internet look like Windows ). Thankfully we have the W3C to keep everything in check and keep web development moving forward.
"At any other university, people would have just laughed. But this is Wisconsin. It's cheese. And this is no laughing matter"