There is also an Alternate Reality Game going on called The Vanishing Point. At least one blogger got a hint for this game along with the laptop. The game is set to conclude in Las Vegas during CES.
How about a full extenion pack included with the install, so you can choose the lean and mean browser, of the full featured browser. All extensions developed and signed by Mozilla ofcourse. Best of both worlds, no?
Exactly. There are 1000's of developers working at MS, but he made it sound like they were first doing this, then doing that, and finally had time to start doing IE7.
No way. IE was just rotting away in Source Depot for 5 years until FF became a serious threat to MS. Since they can't afford to let others develop good webapplications based on this web 2.0 thing (like Outlook Web Access) it was time to push another browser to bend and change the rules of the game. Management basically said: never mind the standards, let's add features to make IE7 an attractive package, but still continue to screw developers (developers, developers) because we need to have everyone programming agains.NET instead of XHTML + JavaScript + WebServices.
They are making mockups for IE8 now? You don't need mockups to fix CSS support.
How do the anti-MS comments on slahsdot and the IE7 blog and on all the other blog affect your development team. I think they would really like to develop a 100% compliant browser, but management decides what gets done. How does it affect morale?
I have just been playing with the gadgets, and I don't have Google toolbar. They ended up on the personalized homepage (google.com/ig). The/. article says you can use these "on your webpage", but I think it should be "on your Google homepage".
There will still be programs you will hate, even with the new guidelines. Not even the big companies follow guidelines properly. Adobe for instance. The Creative Suite 2 updater will put temporary folders in the users' My Documents folder, one for each Creative Suite program. It also puts all shortcuts directly in the Programs folder of your start menu (and every update will restore them there). Skype insists on creating two or three pretty useless folders in the users' My Documents folder. Quicktime will put icons on desktop, quicklaunch and notification area without asking.
These are guidelines, they seem to be meant to be broken.
Dreamweaver is nothing but a fancy text editor with some snippets, using Flash for authoring actionscript is horrible. The have Flex Builder which is baed on Eclipse, but there's not much integration between that and the creative suite software.
Microsoft otoh has Visual Studio which is a fine IDE, and in the new Orcas version it will share designer surfaces with the Expression tools. So the visual interface is exactly the same for developers and design. The designers will also keep 99% of your underlying code (html, xaml) formatted the way it was. So as a dev you can safely hand over your.aspx-pages to a designer that will create a nice theme for your pages.
I don't know what Adobe will do, but they have a long way to go in this integration. Eclipse might be their best bet, but I'm afraid they will continue developping Dreamweaver.
It wouldn't make sense for a relational database to do this, so you will always need an abstract layer in between. The ADO.NET API gives you direct access to the relational data, the aforementioned layers will abstract it for you, where LINQ uses new language constructs to try to bring queries in a natural syntax to your programming.
Much better would be to delete the icon only for your account, so the result would be an icon al the desktop for all users, except your desktop where it was removed.
You make the same mistake as Dvorak: CSS sucks because browsers make such a mess. It's the other way around: browsers suck because the f*ck up CSS.
CSS is pretty neat, CSS3 defines things like tables with running headers that span pages when printed, multi-column layout with gutters, rounded corners etc. I'd like to see you try that with JavaScript and a few.gif images.
Truth is, IF browsers would work the way they should CSS would show it's potential.
You need to do a lot more to prevent SQL injection, it's not just the ', there are many strategies voor injection. Do yourself a favour and start using a library that supports parameters.
One of the most bizarre things I've encountered: Use a character that is illegal on Windows in a filename on OS X. Then copy the file to a windows share with SFM. Windows doesn't show the special character, but it does put a tiny dot under the last character of the filename. If you try to delete that character, the dot will move to the left. WTF?
For at least 5 years to come, they can just buy the DVD. They probably have a DVD player, their PC has one, Joey's PC has one, his PS2 or XBOX can play it, he can even take it with him to a friend and play it there.
After those 5 years, I think we will either have multi-format players, or one format will have gone with the wind.
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Should I replace immediately or wait until the old ones are finished before replacing them?
In Adobe's Dutch version of InDesign they refer to XML tags as labels (as in: the things you attach to your suitcase with your name on it).
There is also an Alternate Reality Game going on called The Vanishing Point. At least one blogger got a hint for this game along with the laptop. The game is set to conclude in Las Vegas during CES.
http://vanishingpointgame.com/
Oh, and the Address Book on Windows XP too? Please??
(because it syncs with my phone...)
How about a full extenion pack included with the install, so you can choose the lean and mean browser, of the full featured browser. All extensions developed and signed by Mozilla ofcourse. Best of both worlds, no?
Exactly. There are 1000's of developers working at MS, but he made it sound like they were first doing this, then doing that, and finally had time to start doing IE7. .NET instead of XHTML + JavaScript + WebServices.
No way. IE was just rotting away in Source Depot for 5 years until FF became a serious threat to MS. Since they can't afford to let others develop good webapplications based on this web 2.0 thing (like Outlook Web Access) it was time to push another browser to bend and change the rules of the game. Management basically said: never mind the standards, let's add features to make IE7 an attractive package, but still continue to screw developers (developers, developers) because we need to have everyone programming agains
They are making mockups for IE8 now? You don't need mockups to fix CSS support.
How do the anti-MS comments on slahsdot and the IE7 blog and on all the other blog affect your development team. I think they would really like to develop a 100% compliant browser, but management decides what gets done. How does it affect morale?
Pretty funny if the money MS paid would end up in Novell's pockets. I can imagine some chairs will be thrown...
I have just been playing with the gadgets, and I don't have Google toolbar. They ended up on the personalized homepage (google.com/ig). The /. article says you can use these "on your webpage", but I think it should be "on your Google homepage".
There will still be programs you will hate, even with the new guidelines. Not even the big companies follow guidelines properly. Adobe for instance. The Creative Suite 2 updater will put temporary folders in the users' My Documents folder, one for each Creative Suite program. It also puts all shortcuts directly in the Programs folder of your start menu (and every update will restore them there). Skype insists on creating two or three pretty useless folders in the users' My Documents folder. Quicktime will put icons on desktop, quicklaunch and notification area without asking. These are guidelines, they seem to be meant to be broken.
1 -- Check out OO.o Novell version. It tries very hard to do what Excel does (especially macro support).
Dreamweaver is nothing but a fancy text editor with some snippets, using Flash for authoring actionscript is horrible. The have Flex Builder which is baed on Eclipse, but there's not much integration between that and the creative suite software.
.aspx-pages to a designer that will create a nice theme for your pages.
Microsoft otoh has Visual Studio which is a fine IDE, and in the new Orcas version it will share designer surfaces with the Expression tools. So the visual interface is exactly the same for developers and design. The designers will also keep 99% of your underlying code (html, xaml) formatted the way it was. So as a dev you can safely hand over your
I don't know what Adobe will do, but they have a long way to go in this integration. Eclipse might be their best bet, but I'm afraid they will continue developping Dreamweaver.
Some people can do wonders with Processing as well.
Check out: Typed DataSets, LINQ and ADO.NET Entities. The last two technologies are under development. In the mean time, how about NHibernate, or ActiveRecord.
It wouldn't make sense for a relational database to do this, so you will always need an abstract layer in between. The ADO.NET API gives you direct access to the relational data, the aforementioned layers will abstract it for you, where LINQ uses new language constructs to try to bring queries in a natural syntax to your programming.
Much better would be to delete the icon only for your account, so the result would be an icon al the desktop for all users, except your desktop where it was removed.
You make the same mistake as Dvorak: CSS sucks because browsers make such a mess. It's the other way around: browsers suck because the f*ck up CSS. CSS is pretty neat, CSS3 defines things like tables with running headers that span pages when printed, multi-column layout with gutters, rounded corners etc. I'd like to see you try that with JavaScript and a few .gif images.
Truth is, IF browsers would work the way they should CSS would show it's potential.
You need to do a lot more to prevent SQL injection, it's not just the ', there are many strategies voor injection. Do yourself a favour and start using a library that supports parameters.
One of the most bizarre things I've encountered:
Use a character that is illegal on Windows in a filename on OS X. Then copy the file to a windows share with SFM. Windows doesn't show the special character, but it does put a tiny dot under the last character of the filename. If you try to delete that character, the dot will move to the left. WTF?
XP is the latest version of Windows
1. What are your thoughts on Adobe's Flex and the way it uses CSS for it's components? It uses CSS syntax, but not the W3C rules.
2. Related to 1: CSS works great for documents. Is CSS a good fit for webapplications?
The girl should sue her parents for $30 million...
Well, they are looking at it the wrong way. You need to explain that having to break the encryption is exactly the problem.
For at least 5 years to come, they can just buy the DVD. They probably have a DVD player, their PC has one, Joey's PC has one, his PS2 or XBOX can play it, he can even take it with him to a friend and play it there.
After those 5 years, I think we will either have multi-format players, or one format will have gone with the wind.
The interesting thing is they have not yet released real hard numbers. Actually, they might never.
Quite the contrary really. Java was not forked because the licence does/did(?) not allow it.