Congratulations to Andrew MacNeill for not one, not two, but six posts on the Visual DevCon keynote presentation, given tonight in Las Vegas:
DevCon 2004 Keynote with the Fox Team Part 1
Calvin VFP Keynote Part 2
YAG - VFP Keynote SQL Demos
Randy Brown - Keynote Demos
VFP 9 Keynote - Reporting Features
DevCon Keynote Cleanup
The Doc Searls Weblog points to an article by David Sifry, listing their cascading troubles that started with a fire at their colocation facility. I went through a similar learning experience while I was at BugCentral.com and we had our servers hosted by USDataCenters. Short answer: you should have a local UPS on your machine [...]
A special issue of CoDE magazine, called CoDE Focus, has been released for VFP 9. I know in the past, Microsoft underwrote these issues, though I don’t know if it is true for this one. Great articles by Doug Hennig, Cathy Pountney, Rod Paddock, David T. Anderson, and more!
http://www.code-magazine.com/downloads/VFP9Focus.pdf
Hack the Planet reports “Having already taken over Earth’s communication systems with NetNewsWire, Ranchero Software branches out with the MarsEdit Weblog editor. Mwahahaaa.” I already use their excellent NetNewsWire RSS reader on the Mac, and I’m looking forward to trying this out!
CNET News.com reports Microsoft to secure IE for XP only.
Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft’s IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2
Hello? Is anyone at Microsoft listening? What a great strategy! Let’s abandon the 200 million [...]
Alex Feldstein links to Rick Strahl’s “Browser wars? Maybe not, but…” and Alex adds “Rick writes an opinion about the browser wars… I completely agree with what he says. I use IE at work (corporate standard) and the latest Firefox version at home. Although I personally like Firefox, I try to make my websites compatible [...]
Television seems to be poised on the brink of making itself completely irrelevant, or reinventing itself into a fantastic new medium with the power of Tivo-NetFlix-RSS: thousands of hours of video-on-demand streamed from in-house servers could make TV as exciting as you want, rather than being stuck with a slow night of re-runs. Dan Gillmor [...]
With the Preview Release of version 1.0, FireFox developers and promoters set a goal of one million downloads in 10 days. They smashed through the one million mark in less that half of that - 100 hours! Join in the fun:
On Ed Leafe’s ProFox mailing list, member Bill Anderson pointed out a PC World blog posting that in turn links to their German publication with an article that says that under certain circumstances, having Windows File and Print Sharing opened for your local network can also open it for your Internet connection, exposing your files [...]
Week in review: Firefox on the hunt. Web metrics suggest that Internet Explorer is losing a significant number of defectors to open-source browsers Mozilla and Firefox. [CNET News.com]
