I've done my master thesis with PalmOS 3.5, a Palm Vx and J2ME on Linux at IBM. Unfortunately it's confidential what I did - but for beginners (I'm teaching high school kids now) I've made a starters project at http://dvx.d2g.com/~david/j2me/ - nothing with kSOAP an kXML as in my thesis and it's really easy and it doesn't need much of understanding of PalmOS or J2ME, but hey - you need to show the kids some easy stuff they understand and make them hungry to learn more by themselves.
Would you please give me an URL to the projects you did with PalmOS and Java so I can check why your Java projects have not been successfull? Or your C/C++ projects? I mean, you must have a lot of experience doing Java on PalmOS, because you're doing this for 7 years now. So share your knowledge.
It might be the best, but the license model is way too expensive. And that sf-genericinst/debian-sf/alexandria stuff is a mess to install just to evaluate the software. Will there ever be an open source edition of SF? I'm monitoring the forums at SF.net but there's not much traffic there.
There are some other products out there like CodeBeamer, SourceCast, TeamSource, etc. It seems most of them are hosted services and you can't get a copy to install it inside your company (which is a requirement for my company).
As mentioned above, the SF 3.0 Enterprise Edition license keeps us away from SF. Maybe it's time to join the open source projects based on SF 2.5 - the software is a nightmare. And why is it coded so database dependent? I'm not willing to install and maintain an extra PostgreSQL or Oracle DB just for SF while all our 3000 developers use DB2. I know, DB2 support is announced for this year, but I need a CDP this (better last) month. There are deadlines out here in the real world and not much time to play around with software that should help your developers with collaboration instead of being an issue itself.
Why is it that some persons at/. always have to get political and offensive towards Germans when there are some news about German companies?
According to the press release, Dirk Hohndel has been CTO at SuSE for three years now, he is in the new economy, so maybe after three years it's time for a new project for him? Being more involved in the XFree86 project sounds more interesting to me than being CTO of a Linux distribution from a developer's point of view. So let's just say thanks to him that he did a great job for the last three years for the SuSE distribution and wish him good look for his new position. Don't you think it's time for a change in your personal life every few years? Well, I do, I hate the vision to do one job at one position at one place for the next 30 years.
Sometimes you have to change the position, sometimes you have to change the company in order to go on with your professional (and personal) life. I personally don't think that he has been fired. He just wants to advance.
What I'm asking myself, has this something to do with the CEO change announced on 07/20/01?
This should not be regarded as a complaint, but 'just upgrade it' isn't always that easy, because there are other programs depending on kernel header files etc. like VMware express. I'm lucky not having only one PC, so I can move to 2.4.7 on my laptop (without VMware now, I hope those guys are a bit faster with their updates this time than with the move from kernel 2.2 to 2.4) and staying with 2.4.6 on my desktop.
Well, we need IT people in Germany. We want to have German engineers for open positions but I give you some numbers. I know them very well, because I have 2 semesters to go in my studies and get offers from everywhere. There are approximatly 6000 graduated students in IT each year. There is a need of 30,000 in whole Germany (increasing) each year - Siemens alone would like to get 4000 graduates each year.
There is a special program by the German government for green cards. They are time limited (I think 3-5 years) - but maybe that's exactly what you're looking for: working a couple of years in a foreign country and then coming back home (or work in another country).
I was a bit surprised that you vote on a Tuesday in the US. All Elections in Germany are placed on Sundays, when at least most of the people have enough time to vote.
So either make a public holiday for something that important as a Presidential Election or vote on Sundays - but not on a workday!
We had a lot of discussions here at my company about which democratic vote system is the best - we came to the conclusion that France has one of the most developed voting systems.
As a democratic person I'm really pissed with all of that, some people already started speaking of a "Banana Republic" and worser things.
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In Germany SuSE 8.0 is available for approximatly two weeks now.
I've done my master thesis with PalmOS 3.5, a Palm Vx and J2ME on Linux at IBM. Unfortunately it's confidential what I did - but for beginners (I'm teaching high school kids now) I've made a starters project at http://dvx.d2g.com/~david/j2me/ - nothing with kSOAP an kXML as in my thesis and it's really easy and it doesn't need much of understanding of PalmOS or J2ME, but hey - you need to show the kids some easy stuff they understand and make them hungry to learn more by themselves.
Would you please give me an URL to the projects you did with PalmOS and Java so I can check why your Java projects have not been successfull? Or your C/C++ projects? I mean, you must have a lot of experience doing Java on PalmOS, because you're doing this for 7 years now. So share your knowledge.
It might be the best, but the license model is way too expensive. And that sf-genericinst/debian-sf/alexandria stuff is a mess to install just to evaluate the software. Will there ever be an open source edition of SF? I'm monitoring the forums at SF.net but there's not much traffic there.
There are some other products out there like CodeBeamer, SourceCast, TeamSource, etc. It seems most of them are hosted services and you can't get a copy to install it inside your company (which is a requirement for my company).
What we need is:
- project homepage
- bug tracking
- task & patch management
- discussion forums
- document sharing
- CVS
- context collaboration
- project administration
- user administration
- SSL
- code-browsing
- QA
- dependency analysis
- impact analysis
- cross-referencing
- reports (HTML, ASCII, Excel/Word or StarOffice, LaTeX would be nice, too)
As mentioned above, the SF 3.0 Enterprise Edition license keeps us away from SF. Maybe it's time to join the open source projects based on SF 2.5 - the software is a nightmare. And why is it coded so database dependent? I'm not willing to install and maintain an extra PostgreSQL or Oracle DB just for SF while all our 3000 developers use DB2. I know, DB2 support is announced for this year, but I need a CDP this (better last) month. There are deadlines out here in the real world and not much time to play around with software that should help your developers with collaboration instead of being an issue itself.
Why is it that some persons at /. always have to get political and offensive towards Germans when there are some news about German companies?
According to the press release, Dirk Hohndel has been CTO at SuSE for three years now, he is in the new economy, so maybe after three years it's time for a new project for him? Being more involved in the XFree86 project sounds more interesting to me than being CTO of a Linux distribution from a developer's point of view. So let's just say thanks to him that he did a great job for the last three years for the SuSE distribution and wish him good look for his new position. Don't you think it's time for a change in your personal life every few years? Well, I do, I hate the vision to do one job at one position at one place for the next 30 years.
Sometimes you have to change the position, sometimes you have to change the company in order to go on with your professional (and personal) life. I personally don't think that he has been fired. He just wants to advance.
What I'm asking myself, has this something to do with the CEO change announced on 07/20/01?
This should not be regarded as a complaint, but 'just upgrade it' isn't always that easy, because there are other programs depending on kernel header files etc. like VMware express. I'm lucky not having only one PC, so I can move to 2.4.7 on my laptop (without VMware now, I hope those guys are a bit faster with their updates this time than with the move from kernel 2.2 to 2.4) and staying with 2.4.6 on my desktop.
heise.de had it in its newsticker: http://heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-24.06.01-002/ (sorry, it's in German).
Well, we need IT people in Germany. We want to have German engineers for open positions but I give you some numbers. I know them very well, because I have 2 semesters to go in my studies and get offers from everywhere. There are approximatly 6000 graduated students in IT each year. There is a need of 30,000 in whole Germany (increasing) each year - Siemens alone would like to get 4000 graduates each year.
There is a special program by the German government for green cards. They are time limited (I think 3-5 years) - but maybe that's exactly what you're looking for: working a couple of years in a foreign country and then coming back home (or work in another country).
I was a bit surprised that you vote on a Tuesday in the US. All Elections in Germany are placed on Sundays, when at least most of the people have enough time to vote.
So either make a public holiday for something that important as a Presidential Election or vote on Sundays - but not on a workday!
We had a lot of discussions here at my company about which democratic vote system is the best - we came to the conclusion that France has one of the most developed voting systems.
As a democratic person I'm really pissed with all of that, some people already started speaking of a "Banana Republic" and worser things.