May 2005

Gartner OS Quote

An impressive quote from Gartner: “Open source software is a catalyst that will restructure the industry, producing higher-quality software at lower cost…it will revolutionize software markets by moving revenue streams to services and support and away from license fees – Gartner 2005” Source: Simulabs

Appfuse gets more time

Great news off of Matt’s blog.It looks like he’s dedicating more time to Appfuse and Spring Live (not official yet) 🙂 Just hope no changes to Appfuse license. Update: Matt said that Appfuse would stay free.

Clipper .dbf with OpenOffice

After struggling with some old Clipper database files (.dbf) for hours trying to find a suitable client to query the data, I accidentally found that the people at OpenOffice have done a great job including a special SDBC driver (Star Database Connectivity) that connects to those old files (Along with other JDBC, MySQL, ADO Datasources). Although I’m still trying...

Music and Software Development

It looks like there’s a relation between application developers and classical music composers 🙂 I’ve haven’t any info to tie up both, but after listening to some of my old favorites, it’s becoming clearer. Many composers have had compositions that resembles the number of decently developed apps in ones life. A musical composition resembles a software project with a...

HTML Data Extraction

I’ve been looking for a decent tool for HTML Data Mining, (aka web-based data mining, aka screen scraping) with no real success.I wanted to extract data from some 350+ HTML files and upload them into a DB. Sounded like a thing that a sourceforge application would do… BUT, after spending a couple of days around, looks like a solution...

Tempted not to blog

I finally was able to avoid the temptation of NOT writing on this blog 🙂 Spending too many hours staring at a monitor and working my fingers around a keyboard for a an approaching release has made it more difficult just to WANT to be around any form of technology 🙂 But, here I am again. I’ve been wanting...