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When you think of Microsoft’s IDE, Visual Studio 2015, perhaps you can be forgiven for not immediately thinking of COBOL. Micro Focus is rectifying the dearth of COBOL support in Microsoft’s newest of IDE with today’s release of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio: a software package that brings full support for the ancient language into the modern enterprise life-cycle environment.
As with previous releases of Visual COBOL, this version includes full-fledged support for the language: IntelliSense, smart editing, auto-complete, code analysis and debugging tools are all here. Additionally, Visual COBOL allows developers to mix their applications with .NET and C# code, bringing more flexibility to their COBOL stacks.
Wait, COBOL still exists?
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The genie can't be put back in the bottle. Or is it more like toothpaste?
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Great timing with Jurassic World now in movie theaters!
Also great news for paleontologists!
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Quote: Wait, COBOL still exists? It still exists BIG time, script kiddies!
Most of the world's finance, insurance and governments still run on COBOL... which might explain a lot!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: run on COBOL...
... on mainframes and mini-computers.
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Quote: on mainframes and mini-computers. ...and now, apparently, on PCs.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To fight back, there have been a number of sites that have started to list the stories Google is forced to stop linking to. In the latest twist, Google has now been ordered to remove links to contemporary news reports about the stories that were previously removed from search results. And then forget about forgetting about forgetting about those pages
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Great! Now CP will be censored!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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On Wednesday, Github published a graph tracking the popularity of various programming languages on its eponymous internet service, a tool that lets anyone store, edit, and collaborate on software code. I'll take "Strange Conclusions" for 200, Alex
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Wired wrote: ... a tool that lets anyone who works on open source projects store, edit, and collaborate ...
Gee, all popes are Catholic you say?
modified 20-Aug-15 16:10pm.
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Yes, strange conclusion indeed. If they had said, Java is winning (for now), then that would've been accurate.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The cost of DNA storage today precludes it from being used by consumers. On the plus side, it's safe from hackers?
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Great. People will be protesting hard drives because they're GMOs.
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When compared to office-dwelling counterparts, managing a remote team has always been a challenge. But at least these days, modern technology helps the cause more than ever. Skype (etc) is your friend
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Interesting: I wrote a similar article about 8 years ago based on my experience with globally disparate teams and outsourcing. Nothing much changes except what we call processes and the technologies we use to deal with the detail.
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Skype/Google Hangout/whatever
Asana is a piece of confusing crap - I spend more time figuring out how to add a task or mark it as completed than I do implementing the task. I still haven't figured out how to get it to not show me completed tasks.
GitHub of course (or its variants)
Slack: Slack is an absolute must (or something very similar to it)
JIRA is, well, cumbersome, pathetic UI, but useful
TeamViewer / whatever remote desktop software you want to use (TeamViewer was pretty sucky but it seems to have improved lately)
What other tools do you remote gals/guys use?
Marc
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I'm curious about your opinion of Slack - I've seen similar shining reviews. What makes you feel that way about it? Is it just "IM with a history", or should I actually take the time to look at it?
TTFN - Kent
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- IM with history
- Decent search
- Drag and drop images / PDFs / whatever
- markdown-esque code block (single tick for a line, triple tick for a block)
- direct messages to the channel in general
- target messages to one or more people or the whole channel
- public (within the org) channels as well as private chat channels
- iPhone and Android apps (and I suppose Windows, but I wasn't looking)
And most importantly, dead simple, doesn't get in the way, usability.
I'm probably missing some stuff, but the 8 above are what I use all the time.
So, not "just" IM.
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Cool. Thank you (if I had someone to communicate with - other than the three of us in this cube), definitely something that sounds useful.
TTFN - Kent
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oh, and #9
I CAN DELETE MY RANTS!!!!
Marc
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Security expert says we're in a cyberwar arms race, and with the Sony attack, North Korea has already taken the first shot at the United States. "We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys... and all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle... Moooo."
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Need to provide a link to SchneierFacts.com as reference material.
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Numerous recent blogs and web postings are erroneously claiming that an asteroid will impact Earth sometime between Sept. 15 and 28, 2015. Now I have to cancel that party
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In fact, NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program says there have been no asteroids or comets observed that would impact Earth anytime in the foreseeable future.
Riiight. And that one that hit Russia last year, the NEOOP had no idea because it came essentially directly from the direction of the sun, which of course is a blind spot to the NEOOP.
Marc
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