VB6 and VBA Are Not Dead, Just Not Supported: Update
January 30, 2009
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Microsoft did not stomp on VB6 and VBA, they just removed any more paid support for it. See the news here. In Redmond’s favor, they
Microsoft did not stomp on VB6 and VBA, they just removed any more paid support for it. See the news here. In Redmond’s favor, they
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TheOpenSourcery looked at the HTML5Test.com benchmarks for the major browser just 6 weeks ago but HTML5Test changed its grading [read all about it here]so lets see what
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Time magazine confronts the problem which is plaguing the publishing industry and now spreading to all media – the model for charging for your work
eWeek’s Jim Rapoza has done a comprehensive survey of Web browsers evaluating their suitability for Enterprise Applications. This is ever more important in the business
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Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft is playing serious catchup in 3 big software development tasks: 1)Windows 7 still has speed, reliability, memory usage, hardware+software compatibility issues, and
SQLite is one of the most popular databases that you may not know about. It is used in every Firefox, Skype, McAfee, and Solaris instance.
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Within the past year there have been many reviewers claiming Gutenbrg Editor delivers faster web pages than popular PageBuilders – see Metabox*, WordPress.com[ is blind
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Microsoft’s Board of Directors are faced with some debilitating problems. The company has proceeded to devastate its Windows Brand in the past 8 years and
eWeek’s Jim Rapoza and I agree mostly on browser performance but share a common admiration for the Opera browser. We both credit Opera for a
I have been following the Google Translations API rather closely with remarks already in this blog. But recently Google made Translations for Web pages so
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The Opensourcery is following more closely the fast rate of innovation at Adobe as appearing in the Adobe Labs. Adobe’s new HTML5 animation tool, Edge,
Oh you have to love it when the online Gods Conspire to work against you. This error message does not appear in separate browser tab
Over the past 5 years the aids to using HTML5 and other key Web tools have accumulated rapidly. And the need for advice when and
Let me suggest one candidate for underhyped software – that is software that is quite good but just manages to stay under the radar except
SitePoint Books, which is based in Australia, did the right thing by having a 3 day sale of many of its books at bargian price
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Drag and drop design of Web pages has been elusive – Borland had a product way back when with IntraBuilder which was quite good- but
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An argument being made on this blog is that Microsoft, by trying to stifle Web Development by not improving IE features for 5-6 years(only security
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IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE9, what a disappointment! It would not be so bad if Microsoft had managed expectations better. But the ACID3 scores going from 55% to 95%.
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