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- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- The pivotal machine in the emergence of the Wintel culture was probably the IBM PC/AT. It sold in sufficiently large quantities to IBM customers to create its own software markets, and was sufficiently poorly engineered and over priced to ensure that its buyers didn't perceive it as a threat to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Programming language choices
- Two programming languages, or actually development environments, dominate most current discussion: BASIC and Java. Whether used independently or within IDEs, Studios, or other marketing constructs, these are, however, out of place in any serious development context; and both for the same reason: no amount of marketing momentum and library accretion...
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- When scripts become programs
- In thinking about the general issue of scripting versus programming I decided to look for some examples of early BASIC to see how close that really was to what we would now consider a simple scripting tool -i.e. an interpreted language without a requirement for static typing. To my surprise...
- Blog posts 2006-07-21
- It's Its, its' ... Apostrophic!
- My wife bought Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves for Christmass - what a mistake! turns out, her tendency to delete commas is wronger than my tendency to put them in. Worse, at least for her, there's an IT angle allowing me to poke fun at her in this blog....
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
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- Pamela for Skype - Basic Version 4.6.0.33 (Windows)
- Pamela Basic allows you to record Skype calls for free. In addition Pamela can play audio files during a call, take notes during or after a call, transfer a call to a contact or group and many more cool features. Pamela looks and works like Skype. Pamela Basic is 100%...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)
- Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- FmPro Migrator 5.28 (Mac)
- FmPro Migrator quickly and accurately migrates FileMaker Pro database structure and data to MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, OpenBase, PostgreSQL, FrontBase, SQLite and Valentina. Converts Microsoft Access Tables/Fields, Forms/Reports, Relationships, Queries and Visual Basic code to FileMaker. Converts FileMaker Pro databases to Microsoft Access (Forms/SubForms/Reports and Visual Basic)...
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Market-Leading Data-Modeling Tools: Research Report from the Burton Group
- The Burton Group provides an in-depth research report on Market-Leading Data-Modeling Tools. According to their research, basic data modeling tools have become commoditized - basic features are yesterday's news! Today's emphasis is less on data modeling features and more on Architecture. According to this research; Sybase PowerDesigner is...
- White papers 2009-11-01
- Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ
- Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Insurer research arm pushes comparative effectiveness
- cougarster comHey guys, do you like dating with a cougar? Or are you a cougar yourself? Okay, no matter you are looking for a NSA, FWB or serious relationship. You'll want to check this out:**== Cougarster.com ==**It's where cougars and younger men can meet(Cougar is the slang for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- K-lite Codec Pack Basic 5.3 (Windows)
- Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the two most popular and widespread formats: DivX and XviD. With this you should be able to play DVDrips and TVrips. K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of VFW/ACM codecs, DirectShow filters...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Statistics Toolkit for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)
- Statistics Toolkit for iPhone is powerful, compact, easy to understand, and practical. Most of the basic statistics are packed into a power pack of stat calculations. With Statistics Toolkit for iPhone you can perform forecasting based on sales history using linear estimation. It computes all basic statistics including mean, weighted...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!
- my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- MB Horse Horoscope 1.0 (Windows)
- MB Horse Horoscope happens to be one very unique animal astrology software that produces horoscopes for horses. It finds out the sun sign of your horse on the basis of its name and birth details and also lets you know the attribute of its horse sun sign or horse zodiac...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Cocoa Packet Analyzer 0.65 (Mac)
- Cocoa Packet Analyzer is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. CPA supports the industry-standard PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files. Features: Basic packet capturing (libPCAP/ tcpdump filter expressions can be used). Analyze and display...
- Software downloads 2009-10-25
- New Apple ads slam Microsoft and Windows 7
- No mentionJust as Microsoft haven't mentioned the tens of hours it'll take up upgrade your Vista machine, and the known bug that could cause your upgrade to hang at 62%http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975253LameThese "I'm A Mac" ads have gotten Rather lame. Again, can't Apple come up with something that promotes OSX rather than...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business
- I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0.698 (Windows)
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus protection tool available free of charge to home users. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability. The new 9.0 edition is faster, safer and easier to use. AVG Anti-Virus Free...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- VB Decompiler 7.7 (Windows)
- VB Decompiler is decompiler for programs (EXE, DLL or OCX) written in Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 and disassembler for programs written on .NET technology. As you know, programs in Visual Basic can be compiled into interpreted p-code or into native code. .NET assembly always compiled to just in time...
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
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