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David Stevenson announces FoxTalk gets a new editor. “Foxtalk will have a new editor, beginning with the upcoming December issue, and I’m happy to announce that Rainer Becker is the man for the job.”
Congratulations to Rainer on getting an exciting new job, and to David for a job well done these past 18 months!
The FoxProWiki’s ArticleWatch. Editor comments: Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet unreview by Charles Jade. This is an “unreview,” more of Charles’ opinion of IBM, Lenova and lots on Microsoft. Interesting and insightful.
The Python Special Interest Group (http://www.pysig.org), a chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group (http://www.gnhlug.org) had it’s monthly meeting last Thursday at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, NH.
Kent Johnson put on a very good presentation and demonstration of Jython, complete with working demos, sample code and handouts. Everyone from novice to journeyman [...]
Bill McGonigle, over at Resigned to the Bittersweet Truth, blogs, “Automatic updates are the only rational approach for most businesses in today’s world of 24/7 Internet connectivity, malware and 0-day vulnerabilities…” read the entire post here.
On his Hentzenwerke Publishing website, Whil Hentzen says, “Reserve April 21-24, 2006 for a trip to Milwaukee. That’s all I can say right now. Trust me.”
Yeah, right. Wonder what he’s up to…
I’ll bet April in Milwaukee is almost as nice as the Novembers we’ve spent there at GLGDW…
Slashdot post: MS Office 12 To Utilize ODF?. J. Random Luser writes “Groklaw is carrying a story about Microsoft quietly engaging a French company to develop Open Document filters for Office 12, due out mid-2006. The SourceForge project claims to be an import filter for MS Office, and that is how the developer describes it. [...]
Rick Schummer, over at Shedding Some Light warns: Epson – you are on your last strike… “I really hate hardware. Yes, I have said this a million times, and I mean it. I hate recommending it, I hate buying it, I hate shopping for it, and I hate the fact that I need it to [...]
The NYT > Home Page reports AT&T Lives On as New Buyer Adopts Brand Name. “SBC Communications, which is awaiting regulatory approval to buy AT&T, announced today that it will adopt the AT&T name once the acquisition is approved.” By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS.
So, the U.S. government split “The Phone Company” into little bits that have each [...]
Slashdot has its monthly feeding frenzy over the Netcraft numbers: Apache Webserver Surpasses 50 Million Website Mark. chris81 writes “For the first time ever, the Apache Web Server is powering more than 50 million websites, according to Netcraft’s Web Server Survey for October. Although relative share fell by 0.67 percent, the total number of sites [...]
Well, Hentzenwerke Publishing has announced Tamar E. Granor and della Martin’s latest work, “Taming Visual FoxPro SQL: Real World Data Solutions in VFP,” available for purchase and download (in PDF format) from the Hentzewerke site. Follow the link above for more information, a table of contents, sample chapter (not yet posted) and ordering information. Looking [...]
