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February 4th, 2008 Gary Barnett Posted in aproposofnothing, open source No Comments »
Stephen O’Grady, James Governor, and Michael Coté have made it into LinuxWorld’s top leaders in Open Source. See Here
Redmonk is a small firm that has a huge influence with the OSS and developer communities - They’re way more influential than many much much larger firms…..
January 9th, 2008 admin Posted in mtbtos, open source No Comments »
One aspect of moving away from one Office productivity suite to another is figuring out how to transfer all of your styles/settings/preferences etc.
So far, the process has been a fairly predictable mix of frustration (”how the hell do I set up styles in OpenOffice Writer???”) and pleasant surprises (”oooh… actually that’s pretty cool…”).
But now I’ve encountered my first proper bug… and it’s annoying the hell out of me.
December 30th, 2007 admin Posted in app dev, aproposofnothing, open source No Comments »
Rapture! I’ve just used the MySQL Migration Toolkit to move a cranky 30,000 record access DB into MySQL. And it worked a dream.
I can’t get over how good it was.