Monday, May 09, 2005

Against software patents




There is an in-process legislation initiative in European parliament to adopt software patents.
In my opinion, if adopted - it could adverse private initiative, freedom and future of open-source software projects.
Here is description of current situation with software patents and petition against it.


Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Closing Internet Explorer window in ASP.NET




Here is how you can close IE window (e.g. upon some button-clicked event):


  Line  1:  Response.Write("<
script language='javascript'>parentwin = window.self;
parentwin.opener = window.self;
parentwin.close(); </script>"
);