2008-01-01 Tuesday

I frequently check freshmeat.net to monitor developments of various Open Source projects. A few items in the last few days that caught my attention for follow-up research:

XML writer class

phpDateTime class

Date::Calc

GeoOxygene

Wykokbi

John C. Dvorak: Vista Death Watch
Sad times for Microsoft when a writer such as Dvorak calls attention to the following:

"All the cool and promised features of the original vision of Longhorn were gutted simply because it was beyond Microsoft’s capability to implement those features."