I have a funny story related to that. I used to mow lawns when I was in HS. A family I was mowing for tossed out a bunch of original 45s from the Beatles, labeled "Apple Records" on them. Since we dumped our grass in their dumpster I saw them and went dumpster diving. I now have a whole collection of classic records because of what they tossed out.
One might say that it is silly that a computer reseller could trademark the name "Tiger". Then again, if I started a company called AppleDirect selling cheap PCs, I am sure I would hear from some Apple Inc Lawyers about it.
Have you seen the director's version? Seriously, it is a completely different movie. It is about 30 minutes longer, has an entire sub-plot that makes much of the stuff in the movie actually make sense ie there are reasons behind Matt Murdoch's actions. I would recommend buying it up or renting it.
That is a really good point. In Muslim control Spain, the Jewish population enjoyed a "Renaissance" of sorts. At that point, Hebrew was an almost dead language. Under the rule of the Moors, the Jews regained much of their cultural identity and created many works of art and literature.
I would contact someone in IS for the City Of Austin, TX. They made some big news a year or so ago for some major OO moves. Perhaps they might share their experiences.....
Its been a while since college, but it has always seemed strange to me to call this a law when we know that it cannot be supported as such.
I think it is strange that this is Moore's Law, when evolution is just called "a theory". Perhaps if we started calling it the "Law of Evolution", Kansas school boards would think twice before banning it...
Nobody like all the major software vendors? Nobody like the biggest retailer in the world using it as the standard for communication with vendors? Come on man, you provide a link to some dinky little web site where some guy writes some crap about SOAP? Have you ever used SOAP in a real world situation? I have, and it works great.
While an RSS feed might be nice, I would think a web service API like SOAP would be a little more handy to actually allow searches, etc.... unless the database of listings a resumes is not that big.
I have not used the Apache stuff, but in ASP.NET and C# it is very easy to both set up and consume web services.
After promoting MS, I now need to go wash my hands.
Seriously, where will Tamino be in 5 years? Microsoft has a pretty farking good track record with SQL Server as a good DBMS (at least since SQL 97, IMHO) that they have continued to develop and support. MS has paid a lot of PhDs and programmers to come up with some fairly complicated stuff that works. And it is fast. And it has XML integrated via MS SQL Server, or you can write your own via ASP & IIS or C# (or any language for that matter). Getting XML into and out of SQL server cannot be a whole lot more work that what SQL server has to do internally to put its data over the network in its own tabular data format for consumption by clients.
I currently work with Oracle, and all of communication between server to server and server to client is done in XML. The server XML and networking code is written in C and Tcl. Converting the requested data into XML is not really the slow part. Where we see the slow part is in pushing very verbose data across a network. Tamino will have this same problem.
If you are not happy with SQL Server for whatever reason, choose something else like Oracle, DB2, or friggin MySQL! They can all do XML. I know that Oracle and SQL server both have a lot of built-in XML support.
I am currently working a job where I make about 1/2 what I did previously as a contractor. Making tons of money is nice. It helped me put together a down payment on a house, buy a new car, etc. But I was flying all over the place and working long hours.
My current employer has no real dress code. We rarely see clients, so shorts, shirt and sandals are the dress code for the developers. Goals are more important than hours, and working from home is not an issue as long as the work gets done.
Now that the economy is picking up I am getting contacted by recruiters for jobs paying 150% to 200% of what I am making now but I am staying right where I am at. I have even received a couple of soft offers based on phone interviews, but I am not leaving.
I would say that you should not take less pay. When you tell an employer you will take a pay cut it is like telling them that you are worth less. I might make the "no raise, work from home" deal, but I don't think I would take the pay cut deal. HR managers (and many managers in general) just are not that insightful.
If you do end up getting to work from home, make sure to actual work from home. I know a guy who got fired when he started working from home. At the office he was getting work done. As soon as he went home he didn't get anything done. If you have anyone else at home I would recommend making sure you have an office (spare bedroom, etc) where you are physically seperated. Especially if you have kids at home!
I would not say that the.Net framework is huge in comparison to, say, Java. The Java 1.4.2 runtime (no SDK) core is 15 MB. The core.NET 1.1 runtime my company distribute with our software (the clients know they are getting it) is 19 MB.
For web design, I try to pick up ideas from sites that really know what they are doing like Amazon. Don't copy, but let their features inspire you. For an actual book on the subjust I would recommend Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability. It might be a little dated but has some great design principles.
For desktop UI, I actually open up a few MS apps and just look around for ideas. Say what you will about MS (this is/., so I am going to get nailed for this), but they usually do a pretty good job with a standardized layout. Lately I have also been inspired with Firefox and Thunderbird and have incorporated a couple of inspirations from those apps into a project I am currently working on.
I am really trying not to be a troll here, but how would you address the problem other than the FUD you laid down in the parent post? It was FUD, as it was completely inaccurate of what is really going. It is misinformation like this that hurts the FOSS and IT communities from making intelligent decisions about Mono.
I have no knowledge of Bonobo. Sorry. But the first time I heard of Mono was in 2003 and since then they have implimented a ton of libraries. The idea that this might be a "phase" for someone is pretty silly when you look at the sheet amount of work that has been put into Mono.
I really disagree with your point. If anything, Mono helps fight MS. One way that MS locks people onto Windows is with proprietary developer kits and languages like VB and Visual C++. These rely on Microsoft libraries. When a company develops some custom software with ASP, VB or VC++ they are locked into Windows (with the exception of some 3rd party stuff that lets you run some of ASP on Linux, Wine, etc).
MS Actually let.NET and C# become ISO standards unlike many of their past developer tools and languages. So when a large company develops an ASP.NET application and then decides that they don't want to have to continue support IIS or Windows, they now have a choice to migraite to Linix!
Mono provides choice for those that are currently developing for the Windows platform. So does Java. Mono is FOSS. Is Java?
I am currently working on a project that uses C# for the GUI. Our customers use Windows workstations, so we are writing software for Windows. We are actually moving away from Java which was the old language of choice at my company. You may argue the reasoning behind this, but it is the decision that was made and we are using C# instead of Java. I am hopefull that a more mature Mono (in a year or so with full System.Windows.Forms) may provide us with a way to run our client programs on Linux workstations, if requested by a customer. Mono will give us back some of the choice we lost moving away from Java.
Mono creates great competition for Java. Perhaps this will be another reason for Sun to finally make Java FOSS. Competion is a good thing.
As a C# coder I always pay attention to case in the FS. I also use "/" instead of "\\" (or @"\") because windows will understand both. However, there is a lot of code at my company that is not written this way, which is really wierd because all of our programmers also program on Unix.
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Funny, my calendar shows May 3rd, not April 1st... this is just weird and scary.
So you would agree that copyrighting and everyday word like "Apple" is pretty stupid.
I have a funny story related to that. I used to mow lawns when I was in HS. A family I was mowing for tossed out a bunch of original 45s from the Beatles, labeled "Apple Records" on them. Since we dumped our grass in their dumpster I saw them and went dumpster diving. I now have a whole collection of classic records because of what they tossed out.
One might say that it is silly that a computer reseller could trademark the name "Tiger". Then again, if I started a company called AppleDirect selling cheap PCs, I am sure I would hear from some Apple Inc Lawyers about it.
Have you seen the director's version? Seriously, it is a completely different movie. It is about 30 minutes longer, has an entire sub-plot that makes much of the stuff in the movie actually make sense ie there are reasons behind Matt Murdoch's actions. I would recommend buying it up or renting it.
http://www.fiestasiesta.co.uk/history/jews.html
I would contact someone in IS for the City Of Austin, TX. They made some big news a year or so ago for some major OO moves. Perhaps they might share their experiences.....
This really adds a new dimension to the term "Vaporware".
I think it is strange that this is Moore's Law, when evolution is just called "a theory". Perhaps if we started calling it the "Law of Evolution", Kansas school boards would think twice before banning it...
Nobody like all the major software vendors? Nobody like the biggest retailer in the world using it as the standard for communication with vendors? Come on man, you provide a link to some dinky little web site where some guy writes some crap about SOAP? Have you ever used SOAP in a real world situation? I have, and it works great.
Here is some Apache SOAP info: http://ws.apache.org/soap/
And here is how are good friends in Redmond do it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/
I have not used the Apache stuff, but in ASP.NET and C# it is very easy to both set up and consume web services. After promoting MS, I now need to go wash my hands.
I currently work with Oracle, and all of communication between server to server and server to client is done in XML. The server XML and networking code is written in C and Tcl. Converting the requested data into XML is not really the slow part. Where we see the slow part is in pushing very verbose data across a network. Tamino will have this same problem.
If you are not happy with SQL Server for whatever reason, choose something else like Oracle, DB2, or friggin MySQL! They can all do XML. I know that Oracle and SQL server both have a lot of built-in XML support.
I am waiting for the intelliSense to suggest the word!
My current employer has no real dress code. We rarely see clients, so shorts, shirt and sandals are the dress code for the developers. Goals are more important than hours, and working from home is not an issue as long as the work gets done.
Now that the economy is picking up I am getting contacted by recruiters for jobs paying 150% to 200% of what I am making now but I am staying right where I am at. I have even received a couple of soft offers based on phone interviews, but I am not leaving.
I would say that you should not take less pay. When you tell an employer you will take a pay cut it is like telling them that you are worth less. I might make the "no raise, work from home" deal, but I don't think I would take the pay cut deal. HR managers (and many managers in general) just are not that insightful.
If you do end up getting to work from home, make sure to actual work from home. I know a guy who got fired when he started working from home. At the office he was getting work done. As soon as he went home he didn't get anything done. If you have anyone else at home I would recommend making sure you have an office (spare bedroom, etc) where you are physically seperated. Especially if you have kids at home!
I would not say that the .Net framework is huge in comparison to, say, Java. The Java 1.4.2 runtime (no SDK) core is 15 MB. The core .NET 1.1 runtime my company distribute with our software (the clients know they are getting it) is 19 MB.
You confuse good design and good programming.
For desktop UI, I actually open up a few MS apps and just look around for ideas. Say what you will about MS (this is /., so I am going to get nailed for this), but they usually do a pretty good job with a standardized layout. Lately I have also been inspired with Firefox and Thunderbird and have incorporated a couple of inspirations from those apps into a project I am currently working on.
I am really trying not to be a troll here, but how would you address the problem other than the FUD you laid down in the parent post? It was FUD, as it was completely inaccurate of what is really going. It is misinformation like this that hurts the FOSS and IT communities from making intelligent decisions about Mono.
I have no knowledge of Bonobo. Sorry. But the first time I heard of Mono was in 2003 and since then they have implimented a ton of libraries. The idea that this might be a "phase" for someone is pretty silly when you look at the sheet amount of work that has been put into Mono.
That is like saying that Company LinX has an IP agreement with SCO so we can their distro and feel safe.
As a programmer, when I say ".Net" I mean the CLR, CLS, and standard System namespaces. The runtime, stack and heap, if you will.
MS Actually let .NET and C# become ISO standards unlike many of their past developer tools and languages. So when a large company develops an ASP.NET application and then decides that they don't want to have to continue support IIS or Windows, they now have a choice to migraite to Linix!
Mono provides choice for those that are currently developing for the Windows platform. So does Java. Mono is FOSS. Is Java?
I am currently working on a project that uses C# for the GUI. Our customers use Windows workstations, so we are writing software for Windows. We are actually moving away from Java which was the old language of choice at my company. You may argue the reasoning behind this, but it is the decision that was made and we are using C# instead of Java. I am hopefull that a more mature Mono (in a year or so with full System.Windows.Forms) may provide us with a way to run our client programs on Linux workstations, if requested by a customer. Mono will give us back some of the choice we lost moving away from Java.
Mono creates great competition for Java. Perhaps this will be another reason for Sun to finally make Java FOSS. Competion is a good thing.
There is an easy solution for you. It is called choice. Don't use Mono.
As a C# coder I always pay attention to case in the FS. I also use "/" instead of "\\" (or @"\") because windows will understand both. However, there is a lot of code at my company that is not written this way, which is really wierd because all of our programmers also program on Unix.
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