Monthly Archives: September 2004

Andrew blogs Visual FoxPro DevCon Keynote

Congratulations to Andrew MacNeill for not one, not two, but six posts on the Visual DevCon keynote presentation, given tonight in Las Vegas: DevCon 2004 Keynote with the Fox Team Part 1 Calvin VFP Keynote Part 2 YAG – VFP … Continue reading

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Technorati’s Lessons Learned

The Doc Searls Weblog points to an article by David Sifry, listing their cascading troubles that started with a fire at their colocation facility. I went through a similar learning experience while I was at BugCentral.com and we had our … Continue reading

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CoDE Focus special issue on VFP 9 available for download

A special issue of CoDE magazine, called CoDE Focus, has been released for VFP 9. I know in the past, Microsoft underwrote these issues, though I don’t know if it is true for this one. Great articles by Doug Hennig, … Continue reading

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Ranchero releases MarsEdit Weblog editor

Hack the Planet reports “Having already taken over Earth’s communication systems with NetNewsWire, Ranchero Software branches out with the MarsEdit Weblog editor. Mwahahaaa.” I already use their excellent NetNewsWire RSS reader on the Mac, and I’m looking forward to trying … Continue reading

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Microsoft: You Want a Fixed IE? Pay us.

CNET News.com reports Microsoft to secure IE for XP only. Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft’s IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack … Continue reading

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Rick Strahl: IE is riddled with bugs, security holes and lacks standards compliance

Alex Feldstein links to Rick Strahl’s “Browser wars? Maybe not, but…” and Alex adds “Rick writes an opinion about the browser wars… I completely agree with what he says. I use IE at work (corporate standard) and the latest Firefox … Continue reading

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Tivo + NetFlix + RSS = nextGenTV?

Television seems to be poised on the brink of making itself completely irrelevant, or reinventing itself into a fantastic new medium with the power of Tivo-NetFlix-RSS: thousands of hours of video-on-demand streamed from in-house servers could make TV as exciting … Continue reading

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FireFox on fire

With the Preview Release of version 1.0, FireFox developers and promoters set a goal of one million downloads in 10 days. They smashed through the one million mark in less that half of that – 100 hours! Join in the … Continue reading

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Win XP2 default firewall configuration could open your shares to the world

On Ed Leafe’s ProFox mailing list, member Bill Anderson pointed out a PC World blog posting that in turn links to their German publication with an article that says that under certain circumstances, having Windows File and Print Sharing opened … Continue reading

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Firefox on the rise, Internet Explorer in decline?

Week in review: Firefox on the hunt. Web metrics suggest that Internet Explorer is losing a significant number of defectors to open-source browsers Mozilla and Firefox. [CNET News.com]

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