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Archives / 2004 / June
  • Gentlemen, Start Your XQueries

    Lots of people are talking about these express products, but what I haven't seen mentioned yet is that there are express versions of just about everything, including J#, Visual Basic, and SQL Server. That's right, you can get a full blown copy of the kick ass MSDE replacement here:

  • How Not To Advertise Your Crappy Product

    Facing pressure from various competitors Quarbon has decided to get into the PowerPoint to Flash conversion market. Fortunately for their competitors, their product sucks. Apparently, they licensed their technology from a company called “Netron“ who doesn't seem to know much of anything about PowerPoint or Flash. Their status page clearly shows that all but one of the “very high“ priority items haven't even been started, but viewing one of Quarbon's sample presentations also quickly reveals that the few things they do support don't even work (and this is in their official product demos... audio doesn't play until you come back to the slide and placement is wrong the first time you view a lot of slides as well). What is even more hillarious is that if you view the product demo they have on their site, created with their viewlet builder, they have one of their main competitor's (Articulate's) product installed on the box. How can you tell this? Well, the “Articulate“ menu option is in plain view inside PowerPoint for the duration of their demo.

  • Articulate Job

    Here is the official job post I gave you the heads up on a week or two ago: