I just noticed my site was hacked. The file b2evolutionconf_config.php was altered. The baseurl was set to some hacker-names. Respect for how they did that, but I must say it does not really amuse me. So the magic word: PLEASE don’t do it again.
To show that you succeeded, here’s a screenshot of what people would see:
I did not see this one coming: Adobe has bought Macromedia. You can read the pressrelease here, the announcement, and the headline on Macromedia’s site links to Adobe. Wow.
Perry blogs about choices developers make. In this case, the choice between Delphi2005 and VS.NET 2003/2005. Is it me, or is he asking the wrong questions to have the arguments come out in favor of Delphi2005?
My take on this at the moment is that I spend a lot of time looking how the .NET framework works, whereas using Delphi2005 would give me VCL.NET, that I know since it’s similar to good old VCL. But choosing a non-VCL.NET project in Delphi2005 would give me the same problem: I’m not too familiair yet with the .NET Framework.
Other than that, I’ve found VS.NET a very mature and stable IDE, so it’s getting me things done.
Why not choose VCL.NET, you might ask? Well, I think a big feature of .NET is the freedom the developer has to choose its tools. Using VCL.NET would restrict me and others to Borland. When I use standard Windows.Forms, it does not matter whether I use VS.NET, Delphi2005, perl.NET or whatever: the code can be compiled, or with minimal effort translated. Depending on proprietary libraries/assemblies ties your hands, as most of us will have experienced to some degree in the past. Giving you a new version (VCL.NET) of a well-known trick (VCL) seems like a good idea for a developer, since you can “port” your code with no or minimal effort. But basically it’s just another way of saying: I’m bound to one tool, and one tool only.
Any developer can tell you stories how coding can be rewarding. Very rewarding. But coding is fun too. Not everything should be built for monetary reasons, but just for the fun of it.
Have a look at Coding4Fun, Microsoft’s new not-so-serious corner on MSDN. But don’t let the name fool you, some projects are actually rather serious. There’s a game-development project, a project to drive a LED-display to show what’s playing on your PC’s mediaplayer, a network/systemmonitor tool. The fun part: lot’s of source included…