I sometimes just point people to my Amazon wish list and give them the option to purchase something off of there. It gives them the control to give you what they think you are worth (sometimes dangerous) and/or can afford, plus it is something I want.
is still a whole lot easier. What could be easier than cfquery for non-technical programmers? And you can get the BlueDragon CFML parser for free, so you don't have to shell out money to Macromedia.
I wish Apple would just throw some developers at porting OpenOffice natively to OSX and ship it with every computer. If that happened, every MS user I know could run a Mac no questions asked. I don't understand why Apple would throw their programming weight behind GarageBand and iWork. Both are great products, but if they could package and distribute a native OSX OpenOffice with every computer, then they could market their hardware to PC users to switch. AbiWord fills this gap a little, but it is only the word processor. They need the whole office package.
I don't know if you can fairly compare NetBeans and Eclipse, because Eclipse is more of an IDE platform where you can get scores of plugins related to different languages and tasks. There are plugins for C++, perl, python, PHP, XML, ColdFusion, UML, and a slew of others.
The java perspective in Eclipse is great, and runs much better on my SuSe laptop than NetBeans ever did. I ran NetBeans for a while but switched to Eclipse and never looked back. Plus, I only have to learn the eccentricities of one IDE for all my programming tasks, as opposed to many different ones.
I know, token Tolkien reference comes to mind: One IDE to rule them all...
I think it is wrong to discourage the youngsters (I am not anymore) to write free software. They have probably used Mac OS X or Linux or Mozilla on Windows or Open Office or any number of other free, open source software projects. The point of open source is to contribute back to the community that you are part of and that you have used software and learned from. If you choose to distribute software as open source, it doesn't mean you still can't make money off of it -- open source and money are not mutually exclusive.
I think the number of people who have predicted the death of Apple in the past is directly proportional the number of times Apple has bounced back.
I think Linux is gaining in business desktop use because it is x86 and most businesses already have a large investment in hardware that is easy to convert to Linux rather than replace with G5s.
Too bad I can't use my mod points to mod Russel's article -1 Flamebait.
A ridiculous article. Most source in an open source model is tightly controlled by a few people who review code changes submitted by others. Thus, the basis of his entire argument is false.
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I sometimes just point people to my Amazon wish list and give them the option to purchase something off of there. It gives them the control to give you what they think you are worth (sometimes dangerous) and/or can afford, plus it is something I want.
I guess it would depend what kind of job it is.
is still a whole lot easier. What could be easier than cfquery for non-technical programmers? And you can get the BlueDragon CFML parser for free, so you don't have to shell out money to Macromedia.
I wish Apple would just throw some developers at porting OpenOffice natively to OSX and ship it with every computer. If that happened, every MS user I know could run a Mac no questions asked. I don't understand why Apple would throw their programming weight behind GarageBand and iWork. Both are great products, but if they could package and distribute a native OSX OpenOffice with every computer, then they could market their hardware to PC users to switch. AbiWord fills this gap a little, but it is only the word processor. They need the whole office package.
I don't know if you can fairly compare NetBeans and Eclipse, because Eclipse is more of an IDE platform where you can get scores of plugins related to different languages and tasks. There are plugins for C++, perl, python, PHP, XML, ColdFusion, UML, and a slew of others.
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The java perspective in Eclipse is great, and runs much better on my SuSe laptop than NetBeans ever did. I ran NetBeans for a while but switched to Eclipse and never looked back. Plus, I only have to learn the eccentricities of one IDE for all my programming tasks, as opposed to many different ones.
I know, token Tolkien reference comes to mind: One IDE to rule them all
Blasphemy
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Why have only 1 way? Apple provides APIs that can be used for writing programs in Java, objective-c (blech), C++, etc.
However, to get good portability and the largest coder base, it should probably support mono and Java (maybe using SWT).
I think it is wrong to discourage the youngsters (I am not anymore) to write free software. They have probably used Mac OS X or Linux or Mozilla on Windows or Open Office or any number of other free, open source software projects. The point of open source is to contribute back to the community that you are part of and that you have used software and learned from. If you choose to distribute software as open source, it doesn't mean you still can't make money off of it -- open source and money are not mutually exclusive.
I think the number of people who have predicted the death of Apple in the past is directly proportional the number of times Apple has bounced back.
I think Linux is gaining in business desktop use because it is x86 and most businesses already have a large investment in hardware that is easy to convert to Linux rather than replace with G5s.
Too bad I can't use my mod points to mod Russel's article -1 Flamebait. A ridiculous article. Most source in an open source model is tightly controlled by a few people who review code changes submitted by others. Thus, the basis of his entire argument is false.
Hasn't Lands End had something similar for a while: http://www.landsend.com.
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