Re: Adult Swim has a new toy...

2010-10-25 Thread Balu Raman
Dear Paul, Long time. You may be interested if you don't already know : http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/ That's python, Prof Grimson is great, he used to teach 6.001 Scheme... Regards, - balu

Re: FOSS alternative to Counterpoint?

2010-10-25 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
This is the only one I've heard of -- I've never used it. It's Web-based and written in Perl and looks pretty good. http://www.icdevgroup.org/ On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Richard Jeroloman jerolo...@hotmail.com wrote: Counterpoint is an old DOS based inventory control program for large

Re: FOSS alternative to Counterpoint?

2010-10-25 Thread Rubin Bennett
I met a very nice guy a while back who works at the Plainfield Coop. He pointed me at the is4c system (Integrated System for Coops, http://wedge.coop/is4c), which they were evaluating for use there. I looked briefly at it and was very intrigued by it's functionality and resiliency: Each

Re: FOSS alternative to Counterpoint?

2010-10-25 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Interchange is more of a development platform for Perl (Access/Filemaker-ish) with an e-commerce framework wrapped around it. Out of the box it does e-commerce fairly well. You can extend it (like anything) to do pretty much what you want; but if turn key is what you are after; Interchange isn't

Open Source ERP

2010-10-25 Thread joe golden
What about Open Bravo? http://www.openbravo.com/ -- Joe Golden /_\ www.triangul.us /_\ People, Ideas, Connections On 10/25/2010 02:57 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: Interchange is more of a development platform for Perl (Access/Filemaker-ish) with an e-commerce framework wrapped around it.

Re: FOSS alternative to Counterpoint?

2010-10-25 Thread Zach Chambers
Hi Terry, I can't recommend any of them specifically, but while I was searching for an open source billing system, I couldn't seem to stop running into open source ERP solutions that handle warehousing/inventory. If you google open source ERP or check freshmeat.net for the same there are

Re: Barbershop Punk - pre-screening reception and net neutrality panel

2010-10-25 Thread Bradley Holt
In case you missed the screening, I wrote up a blog post about the film: http://bradley-holt.com/2010/10/barbershop-punk/ There will be two more screenings this week. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:  Is “The Man” controlling the vertical, the