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As usual, we were busy. The weather was pleasant and warm, cooling down for the end of the week. Looking for a significant heating next week. Well, I guess the summer is just around the corner, in the Holy Land…
Let’s start with a news round-up:
- This technical article explains the new attack on SSL, while also explaining about TLS. Moral of the story: keep your servers up-to-date and locked-down, and pay attention to technical articles on security.
- The “BDS” movement scores a “win” as the last Arab workers lose jobs at SodaStream.
- Obama’s hostile policies towards Israel will continue (at least) until he leaves office.
- Egypt’s parliament expels one of its MPs because he dared to meet with the Israeli Ambassador (to Egypt).
- Boston’s police commissioner says “We’re all Muslims deep down”. And here I thought that was just irritable bowel syndrome!
We spent a fair amount of time preparing materials for our Indian counterparts. This past weekend they gave a workshop at which they introduced our product. From the picture it looks like some 50 people were there, which is impressive. But based on the feedback they gave us this week, it was apparent that they had just “thrown in” our product without having prepared adequately to present it. So this coming week, we'll be training them on how to train others.
There was a lot more development work going on. But the most painful was (and is) supporting BLE. You’re probably aware that one of the goals of our 8th programming language is to make the programmer’s experience identical across the different support platforms. As it turns out, BLE is supported very erratically and completely differently across the platforms 8th targets. This makes my (professional) life a lot more difficult, and I’m losing hair over it. OK, that started well before the BLE work…
I just need to mention something which continually irks me: people don’t read. Or, if they do read, they don’t comprehend. Case in point: this week, a person contacted me (by means of the contact form on our website) to ask, “Can your application build applications for both mobile and desktop”? Well, the very first paragraph on our website says, “… for mobile, desktop, server and embedded application development”. <grrr>
Because of the very pleasant spring weather, Sarah took advantage and went to the beach one day this week. Esther and I did not. We attended a book-swap given to raise money for a M”A resident who was brutally attacked by our “partners for peace”. We of course wish the victim, as well as other recent victims, a speedy and complete recovery.
We’re looking forward to a peaceful, quiet, and pleasant shabbat, amen!
A full house this week, with Dinah and RivQua contributing to the noise-level. We’ll serve up:
baked chicken,
homemade ḥalla,
eggplant stew,
rice,
veggie chili,
cauliflower kugel,
roasted vegetables,
baked salmon,
salatim,
and chocolate cake.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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