As much as I like ExtJS, their licensing is a little bit moot if you’re deciding between GPL and Commercial. What’s distribution? Who are the “users”? Can you please define some easy criteria for picking a proper license, guys?

…but what’s worse is folks like Quviq (authors of Erlang version of QuickCheck) offering their stuff at a non-public fixed price, which seems to be well suited only for particular type of customers. Are they segmenting out other customers intentionally?

You know that something is wrong when you are told that company that has not made a single penny is a successful business because it has raised millions/billions/gazillions of investors’ money

As much as I liked the way ECM worked in 2007 and probably 2008, their service seemingly worsen over time — mail is often somewhat delayed and now they are introducing a price hike (under a slogan “you asked — we delivered”… I didn’t ask for it!)… It is always painful to raise prices and is rarely a good idea — it is way better to discount later when you can do that. That is what they often recommend to new companies — lowering price is highly appreciated by customers, price hikes — never.

It is somewhat sad when professionals you enjoyed working with on challenging problems suddenly disappear into a family living. Good for them, but… still sad.

Nothing new/highly tricky, but sometimes useful

Makefile:

VSN=$(shell git log —pretty=format:%H -n 1)

MAKEARG=[{d,vsn,"${VSN}"}]

compile:

@erl -noshell -eval “make:all($(MAKEARG))” -s erlang halt

source_file.erl:
-module(source_file).

-vsn(?vsn).