In various software community niches I've been described, over the years, as the software equivalent of Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars movies. I find outstanding software developers who are happily making freeware programs and lure them to the dark side of the force -- commercial software development.
And so the belief goes that if only the evil bastards at Stardock weren't plucking these Jedi knights of freeware and corrupting them that there'd be these wonderful freeware progra...
6 months ago I started a new job after having been jobless since graduating from college in December 2003. Well, the place I work for is steadily downsizing IT. I've been through 2 large reorgs and will soon be moving on to my 5th boss in just 6 months. I haven't been on a task or under a manager long enough to gain any traction and actually learn anything useful. I've dabbled with MS Access, but then that project was trashed. I've been working with ASP.NET (as evidenced by several of my pr...
Long have people dreamed of the day where they could write an application for one platform, pick it up and plop it down on another and run it without much trouble. Right. Nice dream buddy. Or is it?
Sure, there’s Java, Sun’s supposed uber language that was meant to make the whole world one platform with one language running it all. Too bad it never really took off. In addition to the sluggishness of a fair bit of Java code when running, and that despite claims, running your applet on Win...
In my last article, I talked about how there is a sub-set of people on-line who have a real problem with the concept of capitalism. That is, people intentionally making products and services that are designed to make money for the creator of those products or services.
But while capitalism may be tolerated by those people, some are pushed over the edge over the concept of charging money for intellectual property (such as software). While one can understand having to pay for food or cars...
A link to a very interesting story about how one company makes their motherboards. With gratuitous PCB pr0n
Later this month, Netscape (AOL) will be releasing a beta version of their latest browser version… Netscape 8. This time though the browser has a rather odd parentage. Let’s look at the overall progression of the Netscape browser line. Each item is based on the item before it.
NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape 1-7 -> Mozilla -> Firefox -> Netscape 8
So now, by that train of logic, Netscape is loosely based on itself rather than being a direct evolution from previous versions.
Netscape, Mozilla...
Babya Software today announced that several new Babya products at this week's Babya Expo, starting on January 17, 2005 until January, 31, 2005.
New Babya products, including a office suite, accounting software, new version of Babya Discoverer that includes a RSS viewer will be introduced or previewed.
A.A. Fussy remarked, "At the first Babya Expo for 2005, building on the success of last year's 2 expos, we have bigger, better products to be announced, introduced or previewed. These product...
Reader Mail and Rumor Report-December 21, 2004
Today's reader mail: another Babya Presenter question. Rumors include: the new bSuite features, a Babya Photo Workshop edition with layer support based on Paint.NET, a update to Babya bSecure . We also have a update to Monday's Wav2MP3 rumor.
Another Babya Presenter question from an anonymous reader:
"I'm interested in showing a slideshow as a screensaver. Any plans for that in the new version of Babya Presenter?"
A.A. Fussy replies:
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Reader Mail and Rumor Report-January 11, 2005:
Today's reader mail and rumors-confirmation of the long awaited Babya accounting package, we update the previous Babya Photo Workshop 7.5 and Babya Presenter rumors.
Babya Accounting software:
Last month we noted that a Babya accounting package was being developed. Now we can reveal that it'll be known as Babya bAccounting and is due to be released later this week-at the Babya Expo.
Additionally, there will be a version for specific busin...