Comments on: Rasmus Lerdorf on security, hormones and PHP http://www.itwriting.com/blog/138-rasmus-lerdorf-on-security-hormones-and-php.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/138-rasmus-lerdorf-on-security-hormones-and-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-5595 Clyde Davies Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:12:56 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=138#comment-5595 And very impressive it is, too. I first got involved in this OS malarky as a result of rashly promising to an online community (the BBC's h2g2) that I'd sort out a long standing issue of theirs: the lack of a WYSIWYG editor. The initial motivation was probably recognition. After all, the site was set up by Douglas Adams and I suppose anybody who could have delivered a knockout tool would probably have got to meet the great man at some point. Several years down the line and Douglas Adams is no longer with us and I still haven't written it. Also, all the initial offers of help dried up when I said I was going to use MSHTML as the primary component. I have since learned that another, clandestine but very significant motivation for writing open source software is that it is *not* written by Microsoft, regardless of whether it's ultimately of any use. I probably sound very cynical about OS, but I've learned a lot about MSHTML and C++/CLI, now. It's been an interesting journey, at the very least. And very impressive it is, too.

I first got involved in this OS malarky as a result of rashly promising to an online community (the BBC’s h2g2) that I’d sort out a long standing issue of theirs: the lack of a WYSIWYG editor. The initial motivation was probably recognition. After all, the site was set up by Douglas Adams and I suppose anybody who could have delivered a knockout tool would probably have got to meet the great man at some point.

Several years down the line and Douglas Adams is no longer with us and I still haven’t written it. Also, all the initial offers of help dried up when I said I was going to use MSHTML as the primary component. I have since learned that another, clandestine but very significant motivation for writing open source software is that it is *not* written by Microsoft, regardless of whether it’s ultimately of any use.

I probably sound very cynical about OS, but I’ve learned a lot about MSHTML and C++/CLI, now. It’s been an interesting journey, at the very least.

]]> By: Tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/138-rasmus-lerdorf-on-security-hormones-and-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-5586 Tim Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:33:24 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=138#comment-5586 > What was it that motivated you to write and publish the HTMLEditor It was because I needed an HTML editor for a .NET app. It was based on a sample by Lutz Roeder - he posted the code to Usenet - so it struck me that it should stay as open source; and there was no reason not to do so. I certainly learned a lot about COM interop and about MSHTML - enough to be embarassed about the mistakes I made in the first code I posted. Tim > What was it that motivated you to write and publish the HTMLEditor

It was because I needed an HTML editor for a .NET app. It was based on a sample by Lutz Roeder – he posted the code to Usenet – so it struck me that it should stay as open source; and there was no reason not to do so.

I certainly learned a lot about COM interop and about MSHTML – enough to be embarassed about the mistakes I made in the first code I posted.

Tim

]]> By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/138-rasmus-lerdorf-on-security-hormones-and-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-5491 Clyde Davies Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:36:33 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=138#comment-5491 What was it that motivated you to write and publish the HTMLEditor, as a matter of interest? What was it that motivated you to write and publish the HTMLEditor, as a matter of interest?

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