Tablet Context Tagging Tool and Java/SWT?
Anyone have experience using specialized input contexts with Java/SWT?
more ...Anyone have experience using specialized input contexts with Java/SWT?
more ...I was thinking about buying the videogame "Star Wars: Empire at War" (not that I have any spare time). Anyway, I decided against it because I was sure, like most games, I'd abandon it after a few hours. And I realized that one reason I do that is because, unlike …
more ...I have a high-deductible PPO medical plan: if I go to a Doctor, I pay the bill directly. It's not unusual for there to be a discount "If you pay at the time of services." Generally, it's around 25%, but sometimes it goes as high as 50%. I interpret this …
more ...Alan Zeichick, in today's SD Times News on Thursday, observes two aspects of Borland's re-org that are troubling: "The first is combining sales and professional services together into one field operations group. The other is folding customer support into research & development."
Zeichick says: "Knowing that the goal of a sales …
more ...Marco Cantu (hi, Marco!) notes my posts on Delphi and makes some very well-taken points, notably:
Microsoft was granted patent 7,039,699 today, which on reading the claims appears to be: use a GUID as a database ID, send it back as a cookie, and share usage data between computers within the domain with access to the central database. The entire claim (that's the important …
more ...In response to a post by Don Box complimenting Ruby, Patrick Logan says: "If Microsoft looks at Ruby as competition> then Microsoft has already lost the war."
I take two possible meanings from Logan's post:
Huw Collingbourne turned me on to Sapphire in Steel, a Ruby programming environment implemented as a VS2005 plug-in: "Ruby In Steel 0.5.12 provides syntax sensitive code colouring and collapsing; a fully integrated interactive console which can be docked within the Visual Studio environment; integrated syntax error handling - click …
more ...The other shoe is dropping.
This was inevitable; one of the "hard decisions" that Borland and DevCo had to face. Still no word on a buyer for DevCo.
"Most of the layoffs will come from a restructuring of Borland's international operations," says the wire and I don't take the news …
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