Posts from January 04, 2000

A coworker forwarded me this analysis of Linux market share. According to the author, Linux is already 80% of the way toward dominance of the desktop market! We can dream, can’t we?

Food for thought: Bruce Sterling’s The Manifesto of January 3, 2000.

Here’s an article that explains how to capture a book’s sales ranking from Amazon.com using Visual Basic 6. It also has an explanation of how the sales ranking system at Amazon.com works. Why use VB for those types of jobs when Perl is available?

Gamasutra has an excellent article about the nature of software developers that mirrors my findings in the world of software engineering.

I found a cool JavaScript trick to prevent double form submissions on the Netcraft What’s that site running? page today. It uses a tiny bit of JavaScript to change the label on the form’s submit button from Examine to Wait when a user clicks on it.

Over at Slashdot, they’re going to give out some awards. The nominations for Unsung Hero are particularly interesting. Lots of good people behind important projects are mentioned.