It’s been a long time since I have followed this story; I thought it was dead. Back in 2003 SCO sued IBM because it said that IBM took code from the original UNIX source and stuck it in the Linux kernel. I thought it was totally bogus from the beginning, but I really knew they were dead in the water when IBM decided to defend rather than settle.
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Interestingly I had to delete my last post. Firefox and IE both tried to consume all of my memory when I tried to edit it. Anyway, I am working on trying to understand the “best” way to do serialization/deserialization of child classes of an abstract class. Here is what I came up with so far.
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I was reading a blog on Jack’s site and it got me thinking about project management and management in general. Jack was ranting (his word, not mine) about choosing the right tool for the job. I agreed with him for the most part. But another issue that I feel is just as important is keeping people motivated. Unless you have a horde of slaves working for you, you must always “bring” people along to where you want them. “Because I said so” barely works for my five-year-old (but it is sometimes necessary). However, when working with adults it is much more effective to encourage people to see your point of view. Those of you who have worked with me in the past, please contain your guffaws. I like to think I have mellowed a lot over the years.
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Turkey is a pretty interesting place. The food is great. Istanbul seems truly to be a blending of Europe and Asia, old and new, Islam and secularism. One of the coolest things that I saw was the Bascilica Cistern. As engineer, I find it intriguing when something lasts for 1500 years. Apparently this was discovered when some archaeologist investigated reports of people with wells in their basements where they could get fresh water and even catch fish!Of course my daughter is confused by the fact that turkey is a food as well as a country, but deep down who isn’t a little puzzled? Which segues into Thanksgiving; so how do atheists celebrate Thanksgiving? It seems to me that you can be happy about having food, clothing, shelter, family, freedom, etc. But to be thankful you have to have a target of your thanks. I guess you could thank yourself, but that seems to violate the principle of the holiday. |
I am considering using PHP-GTK for a decent sized user interface project. The project has some fairly unique requirements:
