Comments on: The Beginning of the End, How I Can Help You, and You Can Help Me http://www.businesspundit.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-how-i-can-help-you-and-you-can-help-me/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:54:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Berislav Lopac http://www.businesspundit.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-how-i-can-help-you-and-you-can-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2961 Berislav Lopac Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:19:06 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3457#comment-2961 Regarding VoiceXML, I had a six-month affair with it a couple years back, and ran away screaming. Whoever decided to use XML syntax for a language which describes a simple procedural script (voice is one-dimensional, so you always have one procedure running) should be locked in the asylum or somewhere. IMO it was the worst engineering idea I have even ran into, and it makes a programmer's life a nightmare. It is especially difficult to build a VoiceXML script dynamically, as it never occurred to the designers that someone might want to do that. Of course, you can put all your logic inside the script itself (there is ECMAScript built in), but this is another kind of nightmare altogether. Regarding VoiceXML, I had a six-month affair with it a couple years back, and ran away screaming. Whoever decided to use XML syntax for a language which describes a simple procedural script (voice is one-dimensional, so you always have one procedure running) should be locked in the asylum or somewhere. IMO it was the worst engineering idea I have even ran into, and it makes a programmer’s life a nightmare.

It is especially difficult to build a VoiceXML script dynamically, as it never occurred to the designers that someone might want to do that. Of course, you can put all your logic inside the script itself (there is ECMAScript built in), but this is another kind of nightmare altogether.

]]> By: Nikole Gipps http://www.businesspundit.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-how-i-can-help-you-and-you-can-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2960 Nikole Gipps Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:27:39 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3457#comment-2960 The answer is banana trees. Apparently you are supposed to dig them up, cut off the leaves, and store them for the winter ... replant when the frost breaks. It's a lot of work, but that's how you get tropical trees into your growing zone. Do you have storage under the house or in a crawlspace? Stick your trees there. And you can be the coolest guy on the block, growing your own bananas! The answer is banana trees. Apparently you are supposed to dig them up, cut off the leaves, and store them for the winter … replant when the frost breaks. It’s a lot of work, but that’s how you get tropical trees into your growing zone. Do you have storage under the house or in a crawlspace? Stick your trees there. And you can be the coolest guy on the block, growing your own bananas!

]]> By: Mike DeWitt http://www.businesspundit.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-how-i-can-help-you-and-you-can-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2959 Mike DeWitt Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:48 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3457#comment-2959 Rob, Thanks for everything and best of luck. I'm not much help to you right now, but on that palm tree thing: 1) Build greenhouse, 2) plant palm tree, 3) fertilize! Mike Rob,

Thanks for everything and best of luck. I’m not much help to you right now, but on that palm tree thing: 1) Build greenhouse, 2) plant palm tree, 3) fertilize!

Mike

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