I agree. This looks to me like that rarest of creatures: a genuinely creative and 'innovative' open source project. Kudos to them for using Mozilla as it is intended: as a cross platform base for creating new products. As an entry-level platform or specific purpose 'kiosk' application, this looks great. Here's hoping they succeed!
Yes it does have a GUI. I had no previous experience with it until a few weeks ago, when I needed to visualize some large data sets that were making open office swap horrendously, and found it very easy to import the data and get some nice 3d plots. (I'm using version 6.1 on Windows). It handles much bigger data sets than a spreadsheet will, which is important in scientific applications, and is generally much better suited to this kind of problem than a spreadsheet
"Rudder said in 2003 Microsoft must ensure.NET becomes the preferred architecture for application development. To achieve this, Microsoft must convert millions of developers using existing versions of C/C++ and Visual Basic onto.NET versions of the company's languages."
So, I should stop writing C/C++ code that will compile on practically any architecture in existence, and switch to Microsoft's proprietary version that will limit my users to a single vendor's platform? The advantage to me as a developer is what exactly?
Are there any good resources out there that compare available source control systems? My group is currently stuck on Visual Source Safe, but open to the idea of switching. I tried the trial version of bitkeeper, which looked pretty good though with a somewhat steep learning curve. The license was somewhat confusing as well. Basically anything that gives you visual merges/compares, lets multiple developers work on a project easily, and doesn't require you to run the "Analyse and Fix" tool weekly would be good...
My experience with Dvorak has been very positive, apart from the initial learning curve. I guess my productivity went down for a week or so while I was picking it up, but I haven't looked back since. I can touch type reasonably well now, something I could never get the hang of on Qwerty, and since switching my wrists have felt better too. It also provides endless amusement when other people sit down at my machine and try typing something...
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I agree. This looks to me like that rarest of creatures: a genuinely creative and 'innovative' open source project. Kudos to them for using Mozilla as it is intended: as a cross platform base for creating new products. As an entry-level platform or specific purpose 'kiosk' application, this looks great. Here's hoping they succeed!
Yes it does have a GUI. I had no previous experience with it until a few weeks ago, when I needed to visualize some large data sets that were making open office swap horrendously, and found it very easy to import the data and get some nice 3d plots. (I'm using version 6.1 on Windows). It handles much bigger data sets than a spreadsheet will, which is important in scientific applications, and is generally much better suited to this kind of problem than a spreadsheet
"Rudder said in 2003 Microsoft must ensure .NET becomes the preferred architecture for application development. To achieve this, Microsoft must convert millions of developers using existing versions of C/C++ and Visual Basic onto .NET versions of the company's languages."
So, I should stop writing C/C++ code that will compile on practically any architecture in existence, and switch to Microsoft's proprietary version that will limit my users to a single vendor's platform? The advantage to me as a developer is what exactly?
Are there any good resources out there that compare available source control systems? My group is currently stuck on Visual Source Safe, but open to the idea of switching. I tried the trial version of bitkeeper, which looked pretty good though with a somewhat steep learning curve. The license was somewhat confusing as well. Basically anything that gives you visual merges/compares, lets multiple developers work on a project easily, and doesn't require you to run the "Analyse and Fix" tool weekly would be good...
My experience with Dvorak has been very positive, apart from the initial learning curve. I guess my productivity went down for a week or so while I was picking it up, but I haven't looked back since. I can touch type reasonably well now, something I could never get the hang of on Qwerty, and since switching my wrists have felt better too. It also provides endless amusement when other people sit down at my machine and try typing something...