Reason? Quote: "all blame rests with the U.S. Supreme Court for allowing the 'outlandish' result that a claim such as this CAN be pursued under RICO." (emphasis mine)
Shouldn't that be CAN'T? If not, the sentence would mean that the Supreme Court AGREES that it can be pursued under RICO, so...
Could someone please tell a confused Wabbit Wabbit what he's missing here???
I've used them all, including moo (http://moofx.mad4milk.net/) and the toolman library (http://tool-man.org/examples/) and each one has a little something missing or fails to work well for some browser/OS combinations.
I've had to tweak or extend the code in each case, and in the end I settled on my own ajax class because none of the frameworks had a decent timeout/cancellation mechanism. For "desktop" apps I agree that YUI is the best of the lot, although I've had to roll my own extended modal message box classes because of some deficiencies in the YUI versions (some fixed in the latest rev, some not).
For "fun" GUI effects I've found prototype and its derivatives overrated. YUI works better IMHO.
However, no one beats toolman for list manipulation and editing-in-place, and for quick-and-dirty manipulation of divs as "windows" I rely on a modified version of code from that original venerable bullwark of DHTML coding, the O'Reilly JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook.
The moral of the story?
It's still the wild west out there (here?) No single library is perfect, all have some puzzling and maddening flaws, and if you're good at what you do, it's often better than not to roll your own. It's the only way you'll discover such oddities as the (just-fixed) non-standard behavior of the escape key in the Camino browser, and the lack of click input in Safari for radio button labels or Opera's handling of resized divs containing tables. Yes, these are browser problems, but a major selling point of the monolithic frameworks is that they've been tested, and that these quirks are supposed to be normalized and accounted for.
Lastly, I know the title of the post was AJAX frameworks, but ajax is actually only the smallest part of these systems. Most focus on the visual effects and "window" management features, with the ajax part kind of thrown in. To me, that's also part of the problem. These frameworks are trying to become desktop replacement libraries, only part of which involves ajax, and they're still struggling through growing pains and an identity crisis.
In a way it's all quite fun, like coding C++ was (commercially at least) back in '91, when we were still trying to figure a lot of it out. Hmmm...we're still trying to figure a lot of it out. What was my point again?;-)
I've been using MaraDNS quite happily. Never a problem on FreeBSD, Slackware or OS X. The developer is very responsive, and the documenation is very very good, unlike that for some other alternative DNS daemons *cough*tinydns*cough*
The zone syntax and config file structure is worlds ahead of BIND and actually makes setting up DNS fun (no, I'm not kidding. Well-written software is always a pleasure to use).
With the Indigo line of "digital offset" printers?
Not a fan of those. Output was nowhere near true offset. The color was ok (I used the right ICC profiles, CYMK, > 300dpi, InDesign 2 project, etc.) but I have a feeling the service bureau either didn't calibrate the printer correctly or didn't know what they were doing.
Like many, I started out with GPL, moved up to LGPL, and finally realized that the BSD license was really the fairest.
The license is short and to-the-point, giving the author all the recognition and indemnity they need, and users all the freedom to derive that they could want.
Stay away from the silliness that is the whole inbred family of Creative Common licenses. They're a mistake that should never have happened.
And me without my mod points today. I'd mod you up if I could. It's a good story, and I'm glad he posted it. So he forgot to disclose. Maybe even purposefully didn't disclose. So what. In this instance it's not such a terrible thing. There are cases where it matters --matters a lot-- but this isn't one of them.
If anyone wants to stir up some petty controversy they should take it to digg.
When Real Money(pat. pend. tm) is on the line, two things count: stability AND SUPPORT. Those of us who compile the latest kernel and mess around with our configurations just because we can, certainly do have the right to be cavalier about what distro we use, and are certainly able to be more forgiving when things break or don't work.
But were talking about an active business concern here. They already know that linux provides the stability, reliability and uptime that they need. But when things break...well...they need support and they need it fast. As per TFA, the only time they heard from Red Hat was after they dumped them.
At every big bank (investment or retail) for which I've consulted, I always had either two machines or a windows box with Hummingbird Exceed on it. All the banks have heavy unix/solaris/sunOS (yes still!) infrastructures. Unless you're coding mini craplets in Crystal Reports Pointy-Haired-Boss Edition (I kid, I kid), chances are you'll spend much/most of your time in unixland.
As much as I hated the pressure-cooker environment, I loved the fact that I almost always had a sun box right underneath my desk, or at least an xterm away.
Yuck. Looks like the cheesy humidor you'd find in a comped Vegas hotel suite.// now offering $100 in match-and-win chips at the FABULOUS Las Vegas Luvaglio Resort & Casino!!!
Being an enterprise customer you definitely dont have to wait in line for consumer service, we just send the computers directly for service. Otoh, you definitely won't get 4hr onsite like all the major pc vendors offer.
That's the problem in a nutshell. Many places where I've worked kept PC hotspare parts and machines on hand to avoid even the service call, but that's not always financially feasible or part of SOP.
From a consumer perspective, I've always found Apple support to be far far better than Dell, HP, Compaq and even IBM, but then again I live in NYC and can run down to tekserve for almost-instant gratification. Every single problem I've had with my PowerBook has been repaired for free during the past 3 years of my AppleCare coverage (and I abuse the HECK out of this machine, believe me)
But from a corporate perspective, even Tekserve's turnaround time isn't always good enough. Rapid on-site support is simply a must, and if the cost of purchasing either that or hotspares becomes prohibitive, Macs won't be able to supplant PCs in the workplace.
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Supreme Court rejects case.
Appeals court reinstates case.
Reason? Quote: "all blame rests with the U.S. Supreme Court for allowing the 'outlandish' result that a claim such as this CAN be pursued under RICO." (emphasis mine)
Shouldn't that be CAN'T? If not, the sentence would mean that the Supreme Court AGREES that it can be pursued under RICO, so...
Could someone please tell a confused Wabbit Wabbit what he's missing here???
I've used them all, including moo (http://moofx.mad4milk.net/) and the toolman library (http://tool-man.org/examples/) and each one has a little something missing or fails to work well for some browser/OS combinations.
;-)
I've had to tweak or extend the code in each case, and in the end I settled on my own ajax class because none of the frameworks had a decent timeout/cancellation mechanism. For "desktop" apps I agree that YUI is the best of the lot, although I've had to roll my own extended modal message box classes because of some deficiencies in the YUI versions (some fixed in the latest rev, some not).
For "fun" GUI effects I've found prototype and its derivatives overrated. YUI works better IMHO.
However, no one beats toolman for list manipulation and editing-in-place, and for quick-and-dirty manipulation of divs as "windows" I rely on a modified version of code from that original venerable bullwark of DHTML coding, the O'Reilly JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook.
The moral of the story?
It's still the wild west out there (here?) No single library is perfect, all have some puzzling and maddening flaws, and if you're good at what you do, it's often better than not to roll your own. It's the only way you'll discover such oddities as the (just-fixed) non-standard behavior of the escape key in the Camino browser, and the lack of click input in Safari for radio button labels or Opera's handling of resized divs containing tables. Yes, these are browser problems, but a major selling point of the monolithic frameworks is that they've been tested, and that these quirks are supposed to be normalized and accounted for.
Lastly, I know the title of the post was AJAX frameworks, but ajax is actually only the smallest part of these systems. Most focus on the visual effects and "window" management features, with the ajax part kind of thrown in. To me, that's also part of the problem. These frameworks are trying to become desktop replacement libraries, only part of which involves ajax, and they're still struggling through growing pains and an identity crisis.
In a way it's all quite fun, like coding C++ was (commercially at least) back in '91, when we were still trying to figure a lot of it out. Hmmm...we're still trying to figure a lot of it out. What was my point again?
GoDaddy is a horrible registrar. They fold like a cheap suit when asked to reveal your "protected" information by just about anyone.
They also drop your name in a heartbeat if even a single piece of your registration data is incorrect.
There are, however, a few good registrars (like gandi.net) who take domain ownership and privacy very, very seriously.
Same goes for web hosts. There are a few who take a very aggressive stance against takedown requests, and many offshore who simply ignore them.
I've been using MaraDNS quite happily. Never a problem on FreeBSD, Slackware or OS X. The developer is very responsive, and the documenation is very very good, unlike that for some other alternative DNS daemons *cough*tinydns*cough*
The zone syntax and config file structure is worlds ahead of BIND and actually makes setting up DNS fun (no, I'm not kidding. Well-written software is always a pleasure to use).
that was the point :)
ah...goatse, 4chan, what next?
All we're missing is a fark reference. (yes I've been on a fark roll lately)
With the Indigo line of "digital offset" printers?
Not a fan of those. Output was nowhere near true offset. The color was ok (I used the right ICC profiles, CYMK, > 300dpi, InDesign 2 project, etc.) but I have a feeling the service bureau either didn't calibrate the printer correctly or didn't know what they were doing.
I wonder what HP plans to do differently here.
Like many, I started out with GPL, moved up to LGPL, and finally realized that the BSD license was really the fairest.
p
The license is short and to-the-point, giving the author all the recognition and indemnity they need, and users all the freedom to derive that they could want.
Stay away from the silliness that is the whole inbred family of Creative Common licenses. They're a mistake that should never have happened.
You can see a sample BSD license here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.ph
Holy crap! PC World called, they want their article back!
I tagged this as a slashvertisement because like you I honestly don't know what this is doing here.
And me without my mod points today. I'd mod you up if I could. It's a good story, and I'm glad he posted it. So he forgot to disclose. Maybe even purposefully didn't disclose. So what. In this instance it's not such a terrible thing. There are cases where it matters --matters a lot-- but this isn't one of them.
If anyone wants to stir up some petty controversy they should take it to digg.
When Real Money(pat. pend. tm) is on the line, two things count: stability AND SUPPORT. Those of us who compile the latest kernel and mess around with our configurations just because we can, certainly do have the right to be cavalier about what distro we use, and are certainly able to be more forgiving when things break or don't work.
But were talking about an active business concern here. They already know that linux provides the stability, reliability and uptime that they need. But when things break...well...they need support and they need it fast. As per TFA, the only time they heard from Red Hat was after they dumped them.
NOT the way to manage customer relations.
It's hard enough for those poor geographers to find work! Now you want to take away one of their few sources of opportunity?
IANAG, but still.
At every big bank (investment or retail) for which I've consulted, I always had either two machines or a windows box with Hummingbird Exceed on it. All the banks have heavy unix/solaris/sunOS (yes still!) infrastructures. Unless you're coding mini craplets in Crystal Reports Pointy-Haired-Boss Edition (I kid, I kid), chances are you'll spend much/most of your time in unixland.
As much as I hated the pressure-cooker environment, I loved the fact that I almost always had a sun box right underneath my desk, or at least an xterm away.
Ah cool, I thought I was the only person who did this. Better safe than sorry, even when you know how to use rm.
this should end well.
Yuck. Looks like the cheesy humidor you'd find in a comped Vegas hotel suite. // now offering $100 in match-and-win chips at the FABULOUS Las Vegas Luvaglio Resort & Casino!!!
That's the problem in a nutshell. Many places where I've worked kept PC hotspare parts and machines on hand to avoid even the service call, but that's not always financially feasible or part of SOP.
From a consumer perspective, I've always found Apple support to be far far better than Dell, HP, Compaq and even IBM, but then again I live in NYC and can run down to tekserve for almost-instant gratification. Every single problem I've had with my PowerBook has been repaired for free during the past 3 years of my AppleCare coverage (and I abuse the HECK out of this machine, believe me)
But from a corporate perspective, even Tekserve's turnaround time isn't always good enough. Rapid on-site support is simply a must, and if the cost of purchasing either that or hotspares becomes prohibitive, Macs won't be able to supplant PCs in the workplace.
told me everything I need to know.
Where there is visual frippery and distraction, sound engineering is surely not to follow.
And the thing's plug ugly to boot.
For the Lexx reference. Not every day you see one of those around here.
I took a look around the site and found the whole thing...underwhelming.
Am I missing something here? (not trolling; honest question)
oh, wait.
Oh, not that Thundarr. Thunar.
Meh.
I was hoping for Something LIke xfce Awesome Ariel Edition, or maybe Version 4.4 Mighty Mok.
It's squirting, you insensitive clod!
Porn - the great equalizer.
/I see see a sig coming
// oops no pun intended
The industry website???
An industry website, yes. A lame industry website, also yes. But the industry website? Oh my, no.
Unless of course the author actually meant "an" and this just a case of poor editing.