Au weia - Geschwätz zum Quadrat

Via Frank E. erreichte mich folgender Kurzfilm -
ein realistisches Bild unserer verbal verkommenen
Branche.

EU-Commissioner and VISTA

oops - EU is getting rough'n tough with Steve Ballmer and his colleagues - the (german) Computerwoche newsletter explained how. Tenor of this message: EU requires Microsoft to design & deliver VISTA Europe-compliant :-)

Need a Common-Lisp-IDE?

Just in case you need a Common-Lisp IDE at your fingertips - I recently stumbled across a pretty neat (Win32-based) implementation called Ufasoft Common Lisp . Those guys could need some marketing & webdesign advice, though... (My personal lisp experience dates back into the last millenium - I'll continue experimenting with it during the upcoming easter holidays.)

Talk on Groove on MacOS

I asked Marc Olson (who works at Microsoft to integrate Groove into the Office toolsuite) wether Groove-2007 would be available in a MacOS version - that was his answer (within a day):

Hi Gernot,

Thanks for your interest in Groove 2007. At this time we don't have plans for a Mac specific version, but we are working with our Mac Office team to determine how to move forward with Groove on the Mac platform. The switch to Intel chips, of course, makes the future a little harder to navigate.

Groove does function fine under Virtual PC so that's an option for today's hardware.

Marc

Pickaxe temporarily unavailable? Try this...

just in case you're playing around with Ruby - and you do not have the famous pickaxe book at your fingertips (either you tried to save some money - which was a bad idea, or your so-called friends never gave that cool bunch of paperized knowledge back to you...):
Try the (german) tutorial - well done Sascha, ruby-in-small-doses, good content, digestible.

Our cat just took a nap on top of my pickaxe-copy... so I needed some ruby-centric diversion :-)

Joomla: Content Management, cool yet simple

Thanx to Matthias I found out about Joomla, a powerful php/mysql/apache based content management solution. Alas, there is also Zope and others around, I quite know that... but on the first glimpse Joomla seems to be what I was looking for: It can manage both static and dynamic content and has a sleak UI. I installed it locally with the free XAMPP preconfigured server suite (site in german) but that was just my convenience shortcut...

VMware Server is now available for free!

via Joel Spolsky I stumbled across the announcment, that VMware Server edition is now available for free. VMware is quite well-known for its cool software allowing multiple operating systems to co-exist on the same machine at the same time. Used it once to have several versions of MS* in parallel.