Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-02, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I nearly fell off my chair when I read this one. > > WE EXPECT FULL CHARACTER SET SUPPORT FOR EBCDIC AND A LARGE SUBSET > OF ASCII IN THE 1.34 RELEASE. TIHS WILL INCLUDE SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL CHR > SUCH AS THE EURO SYMBOL AND LOWER CASE LE

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:29:58 -0500 Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-04-02, Paul Rubin wrote: > > http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM > That's absolutely brilliant! I particularly like the flashing > effect that simulates an old screen-at-time mode terminal (or > maybe a storage

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 avr, 19:23, Paul Rubin wrote: > Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Grapevine says that an architect/bigot at a java/spring shop sent > > out an April Fools email saying they had decided to port everything > > to Django ASAP. > > > Of course the email was t

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 2, 1:29 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-04-02, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > Django, pah.  They should switch to something REALLY advanced: > > >http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM > > ROTFLMAO! > > That's absolutely brilliant!  I particularly like the flashing > effect th

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 2, 1:23 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Grapevine says that an architect/bigot at a java/spring shop sent > > out an April Fools email saying they had decided to port everything > > to Django ASAP. > > > Of course the email was

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-02, Paul Rubin wrote: > Django, pah. They should switch to something REALLY advanced: > > http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM ROTFLMAO! That's absolutely brilliant! I particularly like the flashing effect that simulates an old screen-at-time mode terminal (or maybe a storage-scope

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread Paul Rubin
Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Grapevine says that an architect/bigot at a java/spring shop sent > out an April Fools email saying they had decided to port everything > to Django ASAP. > > Of course the email was taken seriously and he got a lot of positive > feedback from line develo

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread Aaron Watters
On Apr 2, 11:07 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you post a link? > > -- Paul Sorry. It came from private email. And I don't want to get anyone in trouble... -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=secret+feature -- http://mail.python.or

Re: april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread Paul McGuire
On Apr 2, 8:36 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grapevine says that an architect/bigot at a java/spring > shop sent out an April Fools email saying they had > decided to port everything to Django ASAP. > > Of course the email was taken seriously and he > got a lot of positive feedback

april fools email backfires

2008-04-02 Thread Aaron Watters
Grapevine says that an architect/bigot at a java/spring shop sent out an April Fools email saying they had decided to port everything to Django ASAP. Of course the email was taken seriously and he got a lot of positive feedback from line developers and savvy users/managers that they thought it wou