Friday, May 24, 2002

Chris Sells had this item: " Have you ever wished you could explore the behavior of a component or some code without having to write any code? To watch events occur on any object and examine the history of events? To quickly try something and see how it affects the component? To look at the visual behavior of a component as you adjust not only its properties, but execute its methods? If so the nogoop .NET Component Inspector is the tool you have been seeking." 8:20:45 PM     Lately I've been lusting for an OSX laptop. Seems I'm not alone. Maybe in time I will do the majority of my work in a MONO based C# driven environment. Or even Java..... I am so ready for an environment that is not chockful with MS's latest programmer productivity ideas. Where I'm not explaining to various people that certain aspects of MS technology advances are not to be wholesale implemented in any given project. I'm thinking in particular of one guy I ran into recently who swore by ADO.NET datasets for everything. Of course with my luck, I might get that expensive Apple with the OSX and all the goodies only to have to explain some other craziness in that version of the world to some poor schlepp. 8:10:09 PM     New Scientist: "All around us are tiny doors that lead to the rest of the universe."  [Scripting News] - I have one question. Do you suppose 15 billion years ago some smart guys tried this and added too much energy to the doorway? 9:05:38 AM     The Wagner Blog Oracle: I have heard some very encouraging reports about the quality, interoperability and general ease of use of OpenOffice - the open source version of a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool a'la Microsoft Office. This ought to give certain parties in Redmond a little bit of pause, considering that MS Office is their single biggest cash cow. It is the product that more than any other is responsible for the $40B cash reserve at MS. The reason I'm hoping it might make those guys stop and think for a minute is found in the recent mandatory increases in licensing fees that are being assessed by MS. Gartner reports that 2/3 of all affected companies have done nothing about the licensing changes that are going to hit them by this summer.  I predict that there will be a number of companies that will actively utilize products like OpenOffice in place of their MS equivalents, in order to cope with the increased licensing fees imposed by MS. There is annecdotal evidence that some organizations are looking to Linux, but I personally think a product like OpenOffice is much easier to implement and offers a bigger immediate ROI. 8:51:49 AM     Business 2.0 : "Amazon's Secret Sauce" - kind of interesting. I would have never thought of Amazon as a platform, and I'm pretty sure the people responsible for Unix, Linux and Windows would agree with me. But on the other hand, its tough to argue with success. So call it what you want. It seems to work. 8:04:31 AM

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