Long time ago, I’d used twitter.com/mloskot account which I removed. Someone had taken it over and when I decided to come back to Twitter, I had to register as twitter.com/mateuszloskot.
Today, Pantera noticed mloskot account has been released – someone apparently has got fed up with twitting :) – so I have switched back to my old account name.
It seems Twitter is pretty clever and preserves all my following/followers and status settings. Sweet.
Thanks to my, hopefully, open minded attitude, I sometimes let myself to dive into unknown with honest hope to find unexpected.
Today at lunchtime I let myself loose across Twitter archives and I came across an interesting account, or I rather should say: I fell into evil ways. It is @OpenAtMicrosoft. Hmm, another marketing specialist at Microsoft buzz’ing about the NKTOB ™, means new keyword on the block. Or, it is just Microsoft twitting daily menu from their newly opened cafeteria. But now, they presumably say what they mean:
source for info on Microsoft and interoperability, open source and open standards
By the way, it is a foothold of Interoperability @ Microsoft. (For those who may have problems with interpreting the @ sign, like my grandfather for example, it means the same as English word “at” as in Kids at the House.)
In spite of that my eyes nearly dried out of the openness, I went for it and skimmed and voil?: Microsoft Announces SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux!. It will soon be widely available to customers. Yay!
Yes, you read that right
It’s an evil good news of the day and I’m keen in trying it out as soon as I polish the ODBC backend in SOCI. I hope to stop worrying about which one to use, unixODBC or iODBC, for SQL Server at least. Life may become easier for OGR SQL Server driver users too.
I also hope, Microsoft will consider to offer the fastest development environment for C/C++ programmers for Linux. Namely, Visual Studio.
Yes, I am radically open minded. I can take on the most incredible of challenges, even surfing an inflatable crocodile.
The Planet OSGeo is growing. Today, on behalf of the OSGeo Community, I’m happy to announce Tamas has joined with his blog Sharpening GIS at Your Will.
Tamas has been a contributor to GDAL and MapServer projects for years. He develops and maintains .NET/C# interfaces for both of the projects. He also is a member of the Project Steering Committee for GDAL project.
Welcome Tamas!
A few minutes ago, Bill Hoffman from Kitware posted short message to the CMake project mailing list with an interesting announce:
Kitware launched its first developer blog today with contributions from Company technical and business leaders.
The CMake build system is one of the main category of topics on the Kitware blog, so I presume it may be of interest of OSGeo Community as the CMake build system is slowly winning over more and more folks here :-)
First CMake-related post is about Deploying on Windows with DLL Manifest Issue
Another interesting post on the blog is Will Schroeder‘s answer to the question Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing? It’s really worth reading.
I’m delighted to announce Daniel Morissette has joined the Planet OSGeo with his very own blog launched recently: Geo Gears, Nuts & Bolts!
In this blog, I talk about open source geospatial software, cool mapping applications and toys… and anything I might find of interest –Daniel
Welcome Daniel!
I’d like to announce that Frank Warmerdam, one of the noble characters of the Free and Open Source Software community has joined the Planet OSGeo. Frank’s Geo-Geeking blog is available at http://fwarmerdam.blogspot.com.
Welcome Frank!
Google, I do not like you either your extra features. Google, go away!
<mawkishly>I miss the times when Microsoft was the only entity considered as an incarnation of evil in IT world.</mawkishly>