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"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
— Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

"I like deadlines," cartoonist Scott Adams once said. "I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"There is nothing like that feeling of spending days and days banging your head against a wall trying to solve a programming problem then suddenly finding that one tiny obscure and seemingly unrelated piece of the puzzle that unlocks the solution. Oh yeah!"

- Chris Maunder, CodeProject Newsletter 28 Jan 2002

"Management at eSnipe, which is me, is also feeling the pain of the 2002 bear market. So rather than pout about it, I bought some stuff on eBay that I really didn’t need, but made me feel better."

- Tom Campbell, president of eSnipe

Friday, January 10, 2003

  12:56:46 PM
Posted on www.alphaAve.com, the Circus-DTE (Data Transformation Environment) programming language is available for testing. Circus-DTE is intended for environments in which document portals abound and documents and data must move on the Web or in business processes, according to Xerox. The language is intended to provide a middle ground between a general-purpose, low-level language that needed lengthy development of complex algorithms and a high-level, but inflexible, approach to build applications that translate documents and data among different formats so that they can be read by any application or on any device.

  12:42:06 PM  Build Inexpensive Portals Using Open Source Slash. Consultants who are comfortable with Perl, Linux, MySQL, and Apache may find opportunities to set up portals for their clients using Slash, an open source platform that runs the discussion site Slashdot. See how it can work for you and your clients. [TechRepublic - 16 Dec 02]

  8:38:03 AM  Wiki Eases The Burden Of Creating Documentation. WikiWikiWeb is an authoring tool that provides an easy, collaborative way to create browser-based, organic documentation. A Wiki may be the answer to your documentation woes. [Builder.com - 12 Dec 02] [Eric's incoming newsletters]