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Monday, January 20, 2003 |
Jaguars don't like to be Lasso'dFigured out what was wrong with Lasso -
I took the opportunity when upgrading WebSTAR (fixing expiration bug) to update the system software, only to discover that Lasso V doesn't play well with MacOS 10.2 (Jaguar). Apple replaced SH with BASH, rendering Lasso's various shell scripts inoperable (isn't that nice!). After wrestling with reinstalling Lasso from the original download (DON'T LOSE IT - you can't get old installers from Blueworld) and setting up Lasso Security all over again, it finally worked.
The alternative was $199 for 2 tech support incidents, or upgrade to Lasso 6 ($400!). Since my company has absolutely no use for anything in Lasso 6, I'm glad I found the old installer :)
This whole exercise has made me think even more seriously about learning PHP/MySQL or Cold Fusion, since there doesn't seem to be much point in putting in the time, effort or cash to learn Lasso 6.
Why? I did a search on dice.com for the different languages and came up with the following number of current job openings:
PHP = 46
Pretty much sums up what I've been reading on Usenet. I already have PHP and MySQL running on my PowerBook, and Macromedia has just made a free Cold Fusion developer version available for J2EE on OSX. Time to hit the books!
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