Don Box details his lunch with Ken Levy here. Glad to hear Ken is doing some work on getting a good XML editor into the Visual Studio box.
Archive | July, 2003
‘Cannot update the cursor?’ Yes, but WhichOne?
Ever had a problem when compiling a VFP project of “Not a table” or “Cannot compile.” I have, and wrote a short program demonstrating how to figure out Which One of the files was the culprit. (Microsoft has apparently added this feature to VFP 8, I haven’t tried that yet.) Barbara Peisch took my example and enhanced it for her conference session “But what does that MEAN?” last year, and Mike Lewis has added a bit of explanatory text and posted the program on his web site here. It’s nice when you see something you contribute getting used.
Happy Birthday, GrandAunt Virginia, 110 years old!
Caledonian Record (edit: now behind a paywall) article on my grant-aunt Virginia’s 110th birthday. Wow.
WSJ: Web Allows People Like You And Me to Spot Trends. Uh-Oh.
Lee Gomes in the Wall Street Journal’s Portal column posits that the web allows us to spot trends, “disintermediating” the trend setters and trend spotters. I’ve always felt that online forums (CompuServe, Wikis, bulletin boards) could give you more of a sense of the market, the “what’s the man on the street opinion” but accumulators and search engines can turn this from an informal survey to a statistical analysis.
Dictionary.com Word of the Day: tchotchke
tchotchke: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. tchotchke [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Quote of the Day
Greenspun: “Is it time to accept Bill Gates as my personal savior?” [Scripting News]
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day, July 29, Alan Kay: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” From Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog
Tim O’Reilly interview
Tim’s interviewed on Stage4, as linked from many sites on my blogroll. Always worth reading Tim’s thoughts.
Bob Hope dead at 100.
A wonderful commedian, who brightened many hours for millions, Bob Hope passed away at 100. RIP.
Ars Technica: latest Microsoft flaws may bring on new SQL-Slammer level exploits
Ars Technica has an article, not unsuprisingly, critical of Microsoft, but warning of potential exploits. It seems the urgency to patch is exceeding the concern over the side-effects. “Microsoft RPC flaw, DirectX flaw inviting massive Windows attack” From Ars Technica