Archive for September 2008

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Why Open Source, Free Software and Agile Methodology are Revolutionary

I have in recent history become a believer in Open Source Free Software. I don’t mean “free as in beer” but rather “free as in speech” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre. To me, Agile is simply a mindset for managing real world behaviour… namely the nature and frequency of change. The whole idea around agile revolves around the concept [...]

Porting a Client Server Application To Web / ActiveX - Part 2

Porting a Client Server Application To Web / ActiveX – Part 2

This is part II which continues from things I learned since the last posting (here).
This information was learned while working in Codegear C++ Builder 2007. I was/am tasked to port a large Win32 application to run inside an ActiveX Container that loads inside a larger Web Application. Here are items I came across:
- Changing the [...]