@kdfrawg That's where being very selective enters the picture. As soon as people started socializing online, I drew a sharp line between business and professional. It has served me well. :)
The whole challenge of cross-platform with what I do is that web-based applications are out of the question for a lot of my customers. For very valid reasons. If Fortune 500 companies with entire IT departments can;t keep customer data safe, "Joe-bob's Property Management Services", isn't going to stand much of a chance either.
@larand Im just hunkering down on my out-of-the way planet and waiting for one or the other to implode.
@thrrgilag I find it interesting that the whole "web apps are the future" thing has derailed a bit. Especially since the frameworks we have now are actually up to the task.
// @larand
@kdfrawg As long as places provide easy, granular ways of filtering individual streams, you can avoid most irritations.
@larand Love that app. Kind of miss their original dark theme though.
// @thrrgilag
@kdfrawg Most I've ever had over was 130 and that was for our house-warming. I don't think holding something like that again would go over well with Sidekick.
// @matigo
Microsoft, I have been told twice today that were it not for a small application here or there, they'd request I put them on Enterprise Linux workstations again because the irritations they faced on that platform at least didn't stop them dead in their tracks.
Though I don't really have the time or resources, I'm giving serious thought to whipping up cross-platform versions of these applications and giving my customers the option to go back to Enterprise Linux if this updateapolooza becomes untenable.
It'll piss off a bunch of vendors but I am beyond caring at this point. Something's got to give and if they don't do it, I sure as Hell will.
Microsoft has got to either stop with the rapid-fire updates, changelog the living Hell out of them or give people the means to easily block them.
My phone is ringing off the hook from people who's legacy applications and printers are crapping out left and right. The vast majority of those applications aren't even OURS but they have exhausted all their other avenues and are desperate for help.
This is not good, Microsoft.
"If we ever got divorced i would want it to be for irreconcileable similarities"
It's like being married to Steven Wright in a dress.