I wanted to use it as well on windows the other day.
Because I wanted to migrate a mssql database to PostgreSQL. However AFAIR there were no builds I could find and from what I read in the issues it is quite discouraging, a pity
I've just loaded pgloader successfully on 64-bit Windows into SBCL 2.1.8 straight from Quicklisp. The only snag was that I needed sybdb.dll (which I got from https://github.com/ramiro/freetds/releases), and that in turn required OpenSSL (which I got from https://www.npcglib.org/~stathis/blog/precompiled-openssl/). Then, with sysdb.dll on the path, it loaded correctly. Haven't tried how it works, though. I don't even have an MSSQL installation, so there's that.
Use the Docker image, here's a tutorial written by someone I helped migrate MySQL to Postgres entirely in Docker (because they also had troubles with running it locally):
I recommend the Docker image over downloading and running it locally anyways tbh -- you can just prune Docker images to remove stuff without needing to remember to delete it, and you don't have to copy it to your bin dir in PATH.
You have two options in this case, tacking on an mssql or general db connect library is asking a lot of a tool made by one guy in lisp.
First is writing your own tool with the connector libraries working fine on windows sql server in the lang of your choice which is great if you have to do transformation on the data for whatever reason while you are importing - the second is dumping from mssql to csv, then loading it in, which is honestly the KISS way to go as long as that is all you need to do.
The best way I have found to work with the tool is the docker image. This brings up an entirely new issue of docker on windows and bridging localhost access, so replacing one problem with another.
Doesn't seem to work for me with Chrome on macos - Not sure what's the deal is - It shows me 4 empty rectangles and expects me to do something - potentially in the keyboard input field. However if I press for example CMD + P obviously it tries to print - So it doesn't catch the shortcuts.
Hmm, I think Chrome on macOS is probably the most common scenario and well tested.
Those 4 rectangles should contain the next 4 shortcuts that you have to type. Not sure how this could happen. If you don't mind, could you try with a different collection or lesson? Does the browser console show some errors?
Examples: Microsoft's current design language is called Fluent Design. Google's is called Material Design, and Apple's... idk, their old one was Aqua and their current one is referred to as Cupertino I believe?
Not sure if they even gave names to designs back then though, I believe it only became a thing during a design transition era some time ago (moving away from 'skeuomorphic' to 'flat design').
Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, XP, etc. There wasn't a cohesive design language it was just referred by the OS name. You had garish colorschemes (remember hot dog stand?... yeah) and lots of silly things. Win32 programming back then was barely one step above pushing pixels on a canvas and it showed. VB and OLE, then COM started to standardize prebuilt components like dialogs and such that could be shared and used between apps but it was still a wild west of design. Into the 90s it got worse as Windows 98 gave more control over rendering to apps and we had things like Winamp skins that looked like a modern stereo, or a (thankfully) brief period where non-square windows with ovals, curves, and all kinds of junk were in vogue (track down an old copy of Bryce 3D if you want to see something really wild). It's an era of computing that's probably best left forgotten. :)
This is weird. Czech Republic (Czechia) is not in the list of eligible countries but every other of our neighbours is O.o. Including Slovakia and Austria which both are even smaller countries than Czechia by number of Residents. I wonder why this is.
Edit: Judging by the comment of required business email and gmail for example being blocked, I consider this hackathon somehow with their rules arbitrary and can't consider this to be some kind of fairly judged hackathon for those prices.
