We now have a generation of kids who never worked on real computers, only x86 platforms; so Business Class Computing needs to be explained. This all started with an exchange I had on the qt-interest list with someone I respect. -Text isn’t a stream. Katepart would disagree. part of the exchange, their response to my previous message I run into this a lot when people have only worked on x86 based platforms or Unix. They … Business/Enterprise Class ComputingRead more
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Thank You For Your Future Abandonware
Few things honk me off quite as much as abandonware, especially when something good is abandoned. Microsoft could abandon everything they make and I would not care, none of it is a quality product. Other things really hurt. You are reading this because there was yet another Qt question on the Qt mailing list from yet another person creating yet another glorified text editor/crippled word processor. I think this one was supposed to support markup … Thank You For Your Future AbandonwareRead more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 2
We need to establish a time frame before I start showing any code. Yes, you can go visit Source Forge to pull down what is there if you are well and truly desperate to view it. This portion is more about the journey than the code. xpnsqt The xpnsqt program was originally written around the time IBM sunset OS/2 which, according to this article, spanned the time frame between March 12, 2003 and December 31, … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 2Read more
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The Return to Program Hiring
If you live long enough, everything comes around again. Well, hopefully not leisure suits, but it appears some things from the 70s are making a comeback. In this case it is mass hiring of tech workers from college. During the 60s and 70s there was a massive software development effort under way. There, quite literally were not enough programmers to go around. Large corporations needing order entry, inventory, accounting, warehouse management, payroll and any number … The Return to Program HiringRead more