An Open Source Straw Man- April 10, 2003 I just read Russel Pavlicek's Boon or bust article about the open source movement and the transfer of programming jobs overseas. His article purports to refute a common argument that open source software enables programmers in developing countries to learn their trade faster, thus enabling them to compete with American programmers sooner, and undercut the American programming job market. He adequately refutes the argument by pointing out that it is inexpensive HARDWARE, not open source...http://staff.develop.com/gehtland/weblog/permalink.aspx/6f9d661a-86fe-4aaa-8bcd-6cf271f1e9... ASP.NET and Client Side Script problem- April 6, 2003 This is minor, but I thought I'd share. The website I'm working on uses a template class from which all the pages derive. This template needs to set up not only the general layout of the page, but also any common controls. One of those controls is an HtmlControls.DropDownList, which needs to fire a postback whenever the selected item changes. This seemed like it was working, but I found intermittent pages in my site where the postback event was never fired. It took me about 5 minutes to...http://staff.develop.com/gehtland/weblog/permalink.aspx/416dd78b-6c65-4524-937b-2ddbd27d30... I'm speaking at TRINUG, April 9- April 3, 2003 I'll be giving a talk at the April TRINUG meeting on using NANT (hey, Tomas, see, I LIKE it!) and NUnit for developing applications. I'll probably focus on ASP.NET apps, as that's what I'm doing a lot of these days. Hope to see some of you there!http://staff.develop.com/gehtland/weblog/permalink.aspx/954155f0-0838-4604-af27-e56a5411a8... Stu is speaking at No Fluff, Just Stuff- April 3, 2003 Stu Halloway will be speaking at No Fluff, Just Stuff, the Java Freedom Software Symposium in Philadelphia next weekend. If you are in the area and want four entertaining hours of technical mumbo-jumbo and Java-tacular instruction, stop in.http://staff.develop.com/gehtland/weblog/permalink.aspx/698a853d-59d7-4328-ae66-49dbdc8236... |