On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:43:57 AM UTC-7, Jim S wrote: > > Speaking as an employee of a modern agri-business company, using web2py, > from the midwest, with windows xp a distant memory, I can tell you that > your stereotypes are pretty far off. Seems to me there is a lot of tall > corn right down in Illinois near where Massimo started web2py. > > -Jim > > Well, if they are running Centos or RedHat, then they are a good step back from the bleeding edge. But I'm not really in a position to toss pebbles; I only retired my Ice Cream Sandwich phone this spring, my laptop is a 3 year-old i5, and I use a Fedora 16 system as a key workstation. And since I'm no good at maintaining heavy machinery, I use duct tape rather than baling wire. No XP, though, and I have at least used W8.1 in the lab.
(Not sure how edgy AIX/AS400 users are ... but I do remember the commercials IBM put out a couple of Olympics ago.) /dps > On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 2:35:50 AM UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote: >> >> I look forward to Massimo's improvements. >> >> One of the continuing thorns in my side is that a significant number of >> my users are still on XP and IE8 -- about 15% -- and my users are in >> California. I can only imagine the ratio would be higher in middle America >> where the tall corn grows. I could choose to ignore these users, but they >> have money to spend and I want to get it. >> >> As we move to more client-heavy designs, it means more javascript and >> more chances that it won't run in antique computers. I can't leave 15% of >> my revenue on the table. >> >> On the other hand, more and more of my users are on mobile platforms, >> which fits perfectly with the heavy client approach. >> >> Arrrrgh! >> >> -- Joe >> >> >> On Monday, June 9, 2014 5:01:39 AM UTC-7, Ramos wrote: >>> >>> what is the status of the evolution of web2py compared with other, >>> mainly rails /or django ? >>> >>> >>> which of these including web2py has gain more improvements over the last >>> year? >>> Does anybody knows? >>> Is still web2py over the others? >>> >>> >>> From the beginning Massimo used the phrase >>> "Ideas we had , ideas we stole" >>> >>> I would like to know if Massimo is stealing more ideas from others. >>> Also what new "Killer" ideas are we expecting for near future? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> António >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.