I just thought that I would write to you all today, for the following reasons : 1. There has not been much mail lately ; 2. I wanted you to know that I am reading all of my mail, considering everything that is being written, and replying when really necessary. I guess you could say that I am mainly "lurking" though (for now). 3. To give you an update on our (lack of) collaboration infrastructure. It is temporarily on the back-burner again, so to speak, because I am completing a contract for a system that must be ready for the back-to-school period (end of august). Given the fact that we are already august 13th, you can imagine what kind of state (panic) I am in right now! Luckily for me though, and for the OODL too I might add, that the system that I am rushing to complete is QUITE similar to the system that I wish to create for us. 4. An aside concerning development tools. Boy do I miss the days of "HyperCard-Simplicity"! Why can't WWW development be as easy as HyperCard development is? What we have instead is a plethora of disparate tools that can only be made to work together with great difficulty and substantial loss of hair! HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MacPerl, DBMS, AppleScript and HyperCard ... not to mention all of the multimedia stuff ... and the general stuff that we tend to underestimate as well. Seem like a grab-bag but, believe me, it took several years to arrive at this solution. And there are dozens more other solutions that are alledged to be "IT" but, as the group U2 would sing : "... but I still haven't found what I am looking for!". What I REALLY want is ... The Flight of the Pheonix ... the mythical HYPERCARD 3 ... I want OpenCard. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
