Tag Archives: open source

Dear Apple

Dear Apple: Yes, your products are sexy and nicely designed and I lust after them with all my heart, especially after being inundated with ads in which comely young people dance around and smile and socialize with them. But your … Continue reading

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Geek bio

Looky lou, it’s the biography of everyone who ever appeared on the cover of Wired or INC! I’m the greatest programmer the world has known, and it’s time you all learn this truth. Learn it so completely you are forced … Continue reading

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Web Standards: It’s the law (plus a rant and intelligent discussion about health care reform)

Just saw this on Zeldman’s blog: As law, “Speed Limit 55 MPH” is enforceable. “Don’t drive too fast” is not. Although heeded by too few U.S. web teams, W3C accessibility standards are the law in many nations. That’s one reason … Continue reading

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Protected: .NET Pros and Cons

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Subversion: the Open-Source SourceSafe

Mention of this version-control software has popped up a couple of times in the past week, so I thought I’d post about it here. I’ve used SourceSafe in the Microsoft ASP enviroment, but wasn’t aware that there was an Open … Continue reading

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Another reason why Open Source rocks

From KatrinaHousing.org: “We built this site in PHP and MySQL using the Trax MVC framework.”

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