Archive for March, 2004

Flex dies to its price

Monday, March 29th, 2004

Macromedia release today Flex with $12000 price tag. Damn, that is expensive piece of software anyone remembers Generator and Site-spring those died on same reason? just too expensive? But what makes matters even worse developer needs to pay for demo 8 bugs. :) Quite funny actually, you need to pay for demo.

Ghost Town in Chernobyl

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

I found interesting photo blog from slashdot. A young Ukrainian woman has posted a photo journal of her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl and the area surrounding it. Included are pictures of the empty town next to nuclear plant.
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XSLT Intellisense for Visual Studio.NET

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

It has been buggering me for long time that VS.Net does not ship with the XSLT schema needed to enable Intellisense for your XSLT v1.0 documents as well as XSLT templates are without the xsl: prefixes for some reason when you make new xslt document. I was tipped out in Sitecore Developer Seminar that I should install this little add-on for Visual Studio to solve a problem. Fesersoft VS.NET XSLT v1.0 Schema

I hate RealPlayer

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

I just installed free RealPlayer to my computer in order to watch Finnish news channel. After searching free version 10 minutes because they are pushing their commercial version of it everywhere. I cant understand why are they making free version if it’s so well hidden in their website. Why dont they do like Apple QuickTime where you have same install for commercial version.
After installing RealPlayer I found million new shortcuts on my desktop which I really didn’t want. I think they are really killing their product by doing too much pushing spam with it. I bet my pc is now full of spyware as well.

IBM spends $1bn to lure software developers back onto IBM

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004

I am open for bids!
IBM how much do you pay me if I change .NET to Java?
=)