How many forum software are out there? Unless your forum is way better than any other one out there, which I really doubt, because custom-made software without large deployments tend to have many rough edges that took many years for the major ones to clean up, there is no way the software will evolve without strong leadership. OSS that really works is driven by a strong community. The idea of releasing software you no longer want to support to an OSS community is absurd. Releasing as OSS will take you more effort to start with than if you kept maintaining it by yourself. Developers don't come by themselves. You first need to attract users, which means supporting it for a while. Then some developers will come, but they will need direction. Sure, in a few years, the project might fly on it's own, but not tomorrow or any time soon.
This really seems like a modern cliché for the idea of just placing something on The Internet and making millions. That's the kind of thinking that brought us the dot-com crash.
Seriously, if you don't intend on supporting it, do the world a favor and don't add yet an other forum on sourceforge. Delete the code from your computer and never think of it again.
Of course the programmer is not to blame, but the PHP Group can't do everything. I've attended to multiple conferences, read PHP magazines and such. The community does encourage good practices. Security is discussed all the time, with techniques to structure code in order to avoid problems. The Zend PHP Certification contains a section on security. The problem is that the entry level programmers using PHP don't spend $800 to attend a conference. They don't pay $50/year to subscribe to a specialized magazine. They don't buy one of the two great books on PHP Security. Instead, they surf the web and grab the tutorials written by anyone and use the one that looks the most simple, which is obviously a bad choice. The PHP Group has no control over what is published on the web.
I use Kontact, which is more "Outlook-like" with all the tools integrated. I used to be a Seamonkey-mail user, but since Mozilla switched Firefox/Thunderbird, I looked for other solution. KMail/Kontact integration with the desktop is great. I have been using it for over a year and it's a great application. It feels faster than evolution... which is too gnome-ish for me anyway.
I've been switching to everything part of the KDE suite ever since, just for the integration (except the browser, too addicted to seamonkey to switch to anything else). I do use Konqueror on my laptop, because it's much faster to load.
PHP|Architect is a good source for web-related technologies. Of course, it's mostly about PHP, so if you don't like PHP, it's a bad choice. (Just don't start yet an other anti-PHP flame war here, everything is covered in other discussions).
I've been a subscriber for two years of the PDF version, and switched to the printed version a few months ago.
I don't need to walk anywhere. I just visit the record label's website (which usually sell the CDs for 10-15 bucks) and I have it delivered a few days later. Ok, I don't have it in my iPod 30 seconds later (I don't have an iPod anyway), but at least I have a CD without the quality loss in compression, and I can rip it to my favorite format (OGG) for day-to-day use.
Some of the smaller record labels often send out posters, demo CDs and stickers. I think it's a great way to promote other artists and get me to spend even more money later.
When I can't find the record label, I just go for Amazon. I just hate going to a music store and searching manually. Seriously, why would I have to search whole piles of CD when I can simply enter a few keywords?
Did you try indexing a few fields? Using EXPLAIN on your query? I saw MySQL performing complex queries on thousands (even millions a few times) in fraction of seconds. I just can't believe Access can be faster than MySQL.
From the stats I've seen, very few coffee shops actually make profits from wireless access since very few customers actually think it's worth paying 6-10$ per hour simply for internet access. Most don't even have one paying customer per day.
If your goal is to have customers actually working in your coffee shop and buying food/drinks once in a while, offering free access is probably a good way to keep them as they won't have to leave to send an email (which they would probably do if sending that same email would cost 10$ while they could do it for free at home).
Internet access is cheap and wireless routers too. There is simply no maintenance to be made if you just leave it wide open.
There is a user group maintaining wireless access points and working on various free-wireless related stuff in Montreal. You might want to check their website to get informations and arguents: Ile sans fil
KDE 3.4 has a lot of visual improvements. But from what I saw in the screenshots, the distribution is nothing more than Gnome and KDE with all their respective logos replaced by a yellow star. They should have placed the focus on their custom management applications and such. Looking at all those KDE screenshots is a waste of time once you've seen them before.
It's only a concept. The demo does work in Linux since it's written in Java. I could find quite a few uses to window folding if it was implemented in KDE. There is a very small learning curve to it.
QT and GTK are complete libraries. Creating a new one would simply add to the list: GTK, GTK2, QT, YOUR_NEW_LIBRARY_HERE. There is no way a single library will ever take over in the free software universe and it's perfect that way. It's called freedom. As long as KDE can run GTK apps and Gnome can run QT apps, there is no reason to change anything.
Every time I tryed to use firefox (about every major release), I had the feeling it was a fragile application. The interface does not look nice at all. It might just be because of my config, but firefox's default configuration simply looks horrible when it comes up.
No extension I tryed impressed me at all, giving firefox no advantage over Mozilla. I don't really like the idea of extensions. To me, it's simply a way to drop support over some features. I hate the idea of having to select between multiple extensions that do the same thing, it's simply a waste of time and the developpers who worked on them could have focused their efforts on a single extension to achieve higher quality (I'm a programmer, not a user complaining;))
To me, firefox is made for windows users and I have the feeling it was patched up to run on other platforms.
I used to use Mozilla --mail as my mail client, but I switched to Kontact a few months ago. The mail client used to be my excuse for not switching to firefox. I realised afterwards I simply prefered Mozilla.
Most people complain that Mozilla is slow. It used to be true back in 1.2, but I saw a lot of improvements, especially with 1.4. I can support my browser taking two or three seconds to start.
I'm quite disapointed that Moz foundation is actually dropping the support for the Mozilla suite. Firefox really isn't as mature.
Middle-click or ctrl-click... yep... Mozilla (I don't like firefox!) has the exact same behavior. They should have used a different keystroke, the copy wouldn't have been so obvious.
Commenting language constructs is pointless. If a teacher asks you to comment that way, he should either be sitting in a classroom or get some real world experience. The goal of comments is to explain the algorithms and subtilities in the code. Comments should be in english and not mention variables or values. I'd rather know where the 5 is coming from (I hate magic numbers) than know it's 5.
Quite unrelated, but I wonder why you prefer the JavaDoc style documentation. I personally think doxygen looks a whole lot better and is more intuitive and visual with the graphics showing relations. Also, there are less purple pixels in the interface.
It's a custom XML-based documentation system from what I know. It's also open to everyone. Ever noticed the 'show source' link at the bottom of every page? It leads to the source of the current page and all included files are also linked. See for yourself.
I actually finished reading that book two days ago. I found it horrible. Half of the book totally ignores the current state of technology and describe the ideal system. The book is not really aimed towards software developpers willing to improve user interfaces. I just don't want to design hardware to accomodate my software. I don't want to redesign the way operating systems are made.
I'm still searching for one, but I'm pretty sure there is a better book out there for developpers.
Anyway, if you still decide to read that book. Do yourself a favor and skip chapter 5 and 6.
They survey was open to public a few months ago. There were no requirements to participate. I guess anyone seeking around the PHP world at that time could have participated. Are the results representative? Maybe.
With a better object model, PHP 5 does not only bring the capacity to do OOP, but also to have better interactions with other OO libraries and languages. Interoperability really is the keyword to remember for PHP's future and Zend is putting a lot of efforts that way. Other than the object model, the key features of PHP 5 are:
New XML library, fully DOM compliant
New SOAP extension
New XML-RPC extension
Unified database API (PDO)
An extension to use Java object has been available for quite some time but it seems they are improving it and.NET extension is experimental too.
These features sure don't aim the average PHP user who simply uses include and a few conditions. I don't think it means it's bad to have em. They simply bring PHP at a higher level and offer a more complete solution to the developpers.
Well, this announce does not change a thing, unless you want to develop a GPL application. QT has been available on Windows for a very long while. Only difference is that it was a commercial licence. Paying ofr the QT licence is very similar to paying for MS's development applications. It's only a matter of choice.
I don't really care if MFC dies or not, I just decide not to use it. I had to use it a while back, and there is no way I'm going back there!
There are still shuttles and shuttles are not the only way to send something into space. Shuttles are usually the very last option since they are far from being the most cost-effective solution. There is no problem with a new satelite.
Well, I guess that makes a whole lot of money. Thanks for the insight. I didn't know those... details.
I guess everyone knows Hitler was a bad guy. I don't like pointing fingers on dead guys, I'd rather just point out Bush which still contributed third of a trillion for a war.
There is no deficit annually, since they solved those problems, but Canada still has a dept of well over 100 billion. Of course, multiple countries owe money to Canada too and most of the dept is actually towards the citizens via multiple social plans. But there is a debt, it's going down, but there is one.
Actually, the only debt-free province is Alberta because they exploited their petrol while prices were high. They finished paying it off a few months ago only.
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How many forum software are out there? Unless your forum is way better than any other one out there, which I really doubt, because custom-made software without large deployments tend to have many rough edges that took many years for the major ones to clean up, there is no way the software will evolve without strong leadership. OSS that really works is driven by a strong community. The idea of releasing software you no longer want to support to an OSS community is absurd. Releasing as OSS will take you more effort to start with than if you kept maintaining it by yourself. Developers don't come by themselves. You first need to attract users, which means supporting it for a while. Then some developers will come, but they will need direction. Sure, in a few years, the project might fly on it's own, but not tomorrow or any time soon.
This really seems like a modern cliché for the idea of just placing something on The Internet and making millions. That's the kind of thinking that brought us the dot-com crash.
Seriously, if you don't intend on supporting it, do the world a favor and don't add yet an other forum on sourceforge. Delete the code from your computer and never think of it again.
Of course the programmer is not to blame, but the PHP Group can't do everything. I've attended to multiple conferences, read PHP magazines and such. The community does encourage good practices. Security is discussed all the time, with techniques to structure code in order to avoid problems. The Zend PHP Certification contains a section on security. The problem is that the entry level programmers using PHP don't spend $800 to attend a conference. They don't pay $50/year to subscribe to a specialized magazine. They don't buy one of the two great books on PHP Security. Instead, they surf the web and grab the tutorials written by anyone and use the one that looks the most simple, which is obviously a bad choice. The PHP Group has no control over what is published on the web.
I use Kontact, which is more "Outlook-like" with all the tools integrated. I used to be a Seamonkey-mail user, but since Mozilla switched Firefox/Thunderbird, I looked for other solution. KMail/Kontact integration with the desktop is great. I have been using it for over a year and it's a great application. It feels faster than evolution... which is too gnome-ish for me anyway.
I've been switching to everything part of the KDE suite ever since, just for the integration (except the browser, too addicted to seamonkey to switch to anything else). I do use Konqueror on my laptop, because it's much faster to load.
Well, war over Internet might kill less people than bombing around... Wait... WorldOfWarcraft did kill people.
It won't crash Mozilla 1.7.11.
I never understood what was the whole point of Firefox anyway.
PHP|Architect is a good source for web-related technologies. Of course, it's mostly about PHP, so if you don't like PHP, it's a bad choice. (Just don't start yet an other anti-PHP flame war here, everything is covered in other discussions).
I've been a subscriber for two years of the PDF version, and switched to the printed version a few months ago.
I don't need to walk anywhere. I just visit the record label's website (which usually sell the CDs for 10-15 bucks) and I have it delivered a few days later. Ok, I don't have it in my iPod 30 seconds later (I don't have an iPod anyway), but at least I have a CD without the quality loss in compression, and I can rip it to my favorite format (OGG) for day-to-day use.
Some of the smaller record labels often send out posters, demo CDs and stickers. I think it's a great way to promote other artists and get me to spend even more money later.
When I can't find the record label, I just go for Amazon. I just hate going to a music store and searching manually. Seriously, why would I have to search whole piles of CD when I can simply enter a few keywords?
Did you try indexing a few fields? Using EXPLAIN on your query? I saw MySQL performing complex queries on thousands (even millions a few times) in fraction of seconds. I just can't believe Access can be faster than MySQL.
From the stats I've seen, very few coffee shops actually make profits from wireless access since very few customers actually think it's worth paying 6-10$ per hour simply for internet access. Most don't even have one paying customer per day.
If your goal is to have customers actually working in your coffee shop and buying food/drinks once in a while, offering free access is probably a good way to keep them as they won't have to leave to send an email (which they would probably do if sending that same email would cost 10$ while they could do it for free at home).
Internet access is cheap and wireless routers too. There is simply no maintenance to be made if you just leave it wide open.
There is a user group maintaining wireless access points and working on various free-wireless related stuff in Montreal. You might want to check their website to get informations and arguents: Ile sans fil
KDE 3.4 has a lot of visual improvements. But from what I saw in the screenshots, the distribution is nothing more than Gnome and KDE with all their respective logos replaced by a yellow star. They should have placed the focus on their custom management applications and such. Looking at all those KDE screenshots is a waste of time once you've seen them before.
(I really like KDE, I use it every day)
It's only a concept. The demo does work in Linux since it's written in Java. I could find quite a few uses to window folding if it was implemented in KDE. There is a very small learning curve to it.
QT and GTK are complete libraries. Creating a new one would simply add to the list: GTK, GTK2, QT, YOUR_NEW_LIBRARY_HERE. There is no way a single library will ever take over in the free software universe and it's perfect that way. It's called freedom. As long as KDE can run GTK apps and Gnome can run QT apps, there is no reason to change anything.
Every time I tryed to use firefox (about every major release), I had the feeling it was a fragile application. The interface does not look nice at all. It might just be because of my config, but firefox's default configuration simply looks horrible when it comes up.
;))
No extension I tryed impressed me at all, giving firefox no advantage over Mozilla. I don't really like the idea of extensions. To me, it's simply a way to drop support over some features. I hate the idea of having to select between multiple extensions that do the same thing, it's simply a waste of time and the developpers who worked on them could have focused their efforts on a single extension to achieve higher quality (I'm a programmer, not a user complaining
To me, firefox is made for windows users and I have the feeling it was patched up to run on other platforms.
I used to use Mozilla --mail as my mail client, but I switched to Kontact a few months ago. The mail client used to be my excuse for not switching to firefox. I realised afterwards I simply prefered Mozilla.
Most people complain that Mozilla is slow. It used to be true back in 1.2, but I saw a lot of improvements, especially with 1.4. I can support my browser taking two or three seconds to start.
I'm quite disapointed that Moz foundation is actually dropping the support for the Mozilla suite. Firefox really isn't as mature.
Middle-click or ctrl-click... yep... Mozilla (I don't like firefox!) has the exact same behavior. They should have used a different keystroke, the copy wouldn't have been so obvious.
Commenting language constructs is pointless. If a teacher asks you to comment that way, he should either be sitting in a classroom or get some real world experience. The goal of comments is to explain the algorithms and subtilities in the code. Comments should be in english and not mention variables or values. I'd rather know where the 5 is coming from (I hate magic numbers) than know it's 5.
To USE it in a commercial website: no. The restrictions apply when you distribute the application itself (like selling the application to a client).
MySQL licence is cheap anyway compared to any proprietary alternative. Just add it to your client's bill in some way.
$50,000 might not be enough for Symantec, but I think quite a few employees would enjoy such a... christmas bonus.
Quite unrelated, but I wonder why you prefer the JavaDoc style documentation. I personally think doxygen looks a whole lot better and is more intuitive and visual with the graphics showing relations. Also, there are less purple pixels in the interface.
It's a custom XML-based documentation system from what I know. It's also open to everyone. Ever noticed the 'show source' link at the bottom of every page? It leads to the source of the current page and all included files are also linked. See for yourself.
I actually finished reading that book two days ago. I found it horrible. Half of the book totally ignores the current state of technology and describe the ideal system. The book is not really aimed towards software developpers willing to improve user interfaces. I just don't want to design hardware to accomodate my software. I don't want to redesign the way operating systems are made.
I'm still searching for one, but I'm pretty sure there is a better book out there for developpers.
Anyway, if you still decide to read that book. Do yourself a favor and skip chapter 5 and 6.
They survey was open to public a few months ago. There were no requirements to participate. I guess anyone seeking around the PHP world at that time could have participated. Are the results representative? Maybe.
With a better object model, PHP 5 does not only bring the capacity to do OOP, but also to have better interactions with other OO libraries and languages. Interoperability really is the keyword to remember for PHP's future and Zend is putting a lot of efforts that way. Other than the object model, the key features of PHP 5 are:
An extension to use Java object has been available for quite some time but it seems they are improving it and .NET extension is experimental too.
These features sure don't aim the average PHP user who simply uses include and a few conditions. I don't think it means it's bad to have em. They simply bring PHP at a higher level and offer a more complete solution to the developpers.
Well, this announce does not change a thing, unless you want to develop a GPL application. QT has been available on Windows for a very long while. Only difference is that it was a commercial licence. Paying ofr the QT licence is very similar to paying for MS's development applications. It's only a matter of choice.
I don't really care if MFC dies or not, I just decide not to use it. I had to use it a while back, and there is no way I'm going back there!
There are still shuttles and shuttles are not the only way to send something into space. Shuttles are usually the very last option since they are far from being the most cost-effective solution. There is no problem with a new satelite.
Well, I guess that makes a whole lot of money. Thanks for the insight. I didn't know those ... details.
I guess everyone knows Hitler was a bad guy. I don't like pointing fingers on dead guys, I'd rather just point out Bush which still contributed third of a trillion for a war.
There is no deficit annually, since they solved those problems, but Canada still has a dept of well over 100 billion. Of course, multiple countries owe money to Canada too and most of the dept is actually towards the citizens via multiple social plans. But there is a debt, it's going down, but there is one.
Actually, the only debt-free province is Alberta because they exploited their petrol while prices were high. They finished paying it off a few months ago only.