The Winner Takes It All doesn’t work anymore, even for Microsoft March 4, 2008

Microsoft interoperability announcement is a significant switch and a remarkable milestone onto the way to make the world of software an open, standardized  and perhaps free as well. Especially regarding the IE8 default behavior.
Read more at:

http://ejohn.org/blog/unbreaking-the-web/
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/interoperability/default.mspx

I have said in the past that IE would eventually become an open source browser and so it would. I [...]

The Truth About Python January 18, 2008

from: Python Is Not Java (dirtSimple)
So, if you don’t feel like you’re at least ten times more productive with Python than Java, chances are good that you’ve been forgetting to use the time machine! (And if you miss your Java IDE, consider the possibility that it’s because your Python program is much more complex than [...]

What is this blog all about? August 7, 2006

I am trying to find my way in the open-source world. So far, for almost a decade, I did all kind of projects mostly database-driven applications, all using Microsoft tools running on Microsoft servers and desktops.
Even though I was generally satisfied with my achievements, I coudn’t ignore this growing community of smart people who twist [...]