Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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SCO nonsense is out of control
I don't care that much about Linux, quite honestly, but this SCO nonsense is getting out of control.
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Is Ellison on crack?
Larry Ellison cracks me up. He wants information from Microsoft to fight off the blockage of Oracle's PeopleSoft acquisition.
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Getting the book published
I got a second round of editorial reviews from a certain publisher for a book proposal I did. Wow... the feedback was almost all positive, up from 50% thumbs down, with the remaining negatives really being differences in opinion (the various reviewers contradict each other on certain points). I'm supposed to have a conference call with the publisher later this week.
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Early thoughts on POP Forums for Whidbey
I had a nice little conversation with some architect types at my current contract gig today regarding my open source project, POP Forums. I was greeted with a real surprise when talking about data: Not one thought I needed stored procedures.
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Disrespecting the Bill
I was really put off by this post by Ajay Juneja. I don't care so much about what he did or didn't do, or what he said, it was his classmates in general.
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Getting the bling with the gig
I've learned an important lesson the last few weeks:
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For the people, by the people
I hate when people post in forums and refer to everyone as “people.”
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A Mac lover in a Windows developer
My wife Stephanie got her little 12” iBook this week. It's killing me because I like it so much better than my big clunky HP laptop.
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Salesforce.com: I missed an opportunity
Salesforce.com is heading toward an IPO. You have no idea how much I kick myself in the ass everytime I hear about their success.
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Messing with code generators and dreaming of ObjectSpaces
I've used code generators in various environments, but I never really thought about writing my own. I then realized that I tend to write a lot of similar data access classes for smaller projects, where I can bundle data access and business objects in the same class. I run into that a lot on smaller little consulting things. I know some people hate that and say you should always separate them, but whatever. If I get $3k for a little Web project it's not going to happen.