Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants - CommentsCincom Product ManagerSingularity- June 30, 2008 Comment on Singularity By Patrick Logan Apparently they have some offshoot of their R&D Singularity OS that will save the day. Well, maybe not. Comparing the evolution of Mac OS -> Mac OS X with DOS -> Windows -> Windows NT2kXPVista would be a useful activity for Masters in CS or tech-based MBAs. Apple became relatively large and non-functional, and became desperate enough to make a big leap. They went relatively conservative by going with NeXT OS instead of Be OS. And it was...http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Staid_and_St... But the blogs need something to comment on!- June 30, 2008 Comment on But the blogs need something to comment on! By Randal L. Schwartz At some point, there has to be original reporting to cover an event. The blogosphere is an echo chamber. It needs input to work. We need an economic model that provides for this original reporting. We don't need an economic model for op-ed pieces.... blogs have already proved that this works.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Whats_Wrong_... does this title of comment show up- June 30, 2008 Comment on does this title of comment show up By Troy Brumley Jim, finally had a chance to really read the whole linked post and not just your response to excerpts. Sergey notes the thing that most bugs me about the Googleware I've used: "On the other hand, I was using Google software - a lot of it - in the last year, and slick as it is, there's just too much of it that is regularly broken. It seems like every week 10% of all the features are broken in one or the other browser. And it's.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Things_that_... It's Stickam!- June 30, 2008 Comment on It's Stickam! By Randal L. Schwartz The free service I was using for streaming the live audio is stickam.com.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Industry_Mis... Why- June 28, 2008 Comment on Why By Claus do you need to load that small package I mean, this is standard behaviour of about any TextEditor (apart from VI, that is). The way it is, you need to know that there is such a package and then you need to load it, so what can it hurt to have this loaded as stock package Clauhttp://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Da... CSV Support- June 28, 2008 Comment on CSV Support By Claus Is there anything like this IniManager for .csv Support Oh, and as you can see, the last character sometimes still disappears from comments ;)Claushttp://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Da... How's happy else- June 28, 2008 Comment on How's happy else By Philippe Marschall You forgot the third and most important groups that will be happy: registrars.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=A_Blizzard_o... Stop Making Me Look Bad- June 27, 2008 Comment on Stop Making Me Look Bad By Nick Molnar I think Jakob played into every stereotype about myhis age cohort. I wrote a longer poster here but the gist is this: Entrepreneurs fix problems, not run away from them The attention this story got was totally predictable; and. bad for his investment, the Tumblr team, and the other Tumblr investors Jakob's voice on Tumblr will be missedhttp://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=All_of_this_... Link to James Foster's slides is incorrect- June 27, 2008 Comment on Link to James Foster's slides is incorrect By Nick Alexander The link (on the stic.st site) to James Foster's slides should be http:www.stic.ststsFiles2008Tutorial.pdf.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Smalltalk_Da... (Untitled)- June 27, 2008 Comment on By Gordon Weakliem I always liked the sign at the campus entrance when Trenton State College changed their name to The College of New Jerseyhttp://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Theater_Erro... |