Lately I’ve been finding myself amazed about the social turn that programming has taken in quite a while. I started growing as a software developer thanks to the Internet, it and the people on mailing lists/forums/irc have shaped my skills, career and made me discover a lot of great things. I owe the Internet a [...]
I’ve been actively developing with .NET in 2003-2004 but for some reasons I left the whole bandwagon. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to read Michael Foord‘s upcoming book: IronPython in Action and let me say that I found it extremely interesting, and I suggest it to everybody needing (or wanting) to work with .NET from [...]
I decided to write this post just to get things straight and recall some memories of the past. Since I still get emails about Atom.NET I think it’s time to say it out loud and clear: I don’t care about it anymore but I still think Atom is a good idea, though I repeat: I [...]
As I thought yesterday the Firebird (the RDBMS) community got angry about the renaming of Phoenix browser… Thanks to MozillaZine for the hot links.
Do you know Phoenix? The Mozilla slim brother and also-Gecko based fork of it… Ok, forget it! From now on its name is: Firebird. It’s been renamed ’cause Phoenix Technologies owns the trademark. ps. isn’t there another open source project (an RDMBS) called “Firebird”? Look: http://www.firebirdsql.com/ I think there will be a lack of new [...]
