The Rules of Open-Source Programming

IJim' Roepcke's news has been in my thoughts a lot today. He must be experiencing extremes of emotion right now. Very best wishes Jim.

Duncan's Radio-controlled Weblogs

I've just been trying out the Radio UserLand : Profiling in Radio -- A deep developer feature:

[ANN] New Logon/Logoff/Signup Features for Conversant:

We've introduced three new macros which allow you to build template based logon, logoff and signup forms that may reside anywhere in your conversation.

Mea Culpa: I've been neglecting DJ whilst playing around with Radio but it'll not be long before I get round to a revamp of this site to take advantage of all the new Conversant features recently released by Seth, et al.

this is aaronland

Radio Crankypants 18-19 : Not Invented Here 18) That's unfair, really. The Frontier tcp verbs were around long before Apple released their URL Access Manager/Scripting widget. But the Apple widget has done HTTPS for almost three years now; somewhere in the Windows API there is support for HTTPS; still the Frontier kernel still does everything with plain old HTTP. Frontier/Radio, however, does talk AppleScript, which is a mixed blessing if I've ever heard one. Now that Perl ships with OS X I'm even less sure why I would want to :

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But hey, if you can deal with it, it does mean you should be able to do secure XML over HTTP on a Mac.

At the risk of being labelled boring ;-) [1], I'm linking to Aaron's radio userland - what has aaron thought about it, recently? Radio Crankypants stream of consciousness. An interesting voyage of discovery with Radio.

That seems impressive, but 3.1GHz! is that all?

Water Cooling - blarg!

Liquid Nitrogen is the way to go

Overclocking with LN2 > World record 3675MHz!!

http://www.muropaketti.com/artikkelit/cpu/northwood2200/ln2/index.phtml

techno weenie | RFC > Common XML-RPC API for Weblogs:

"This is an RFC for a common XML-RPC interface for other weblogging applications. The Blogger and Manila interfaces are fine, but are written specifically for those two applications.

Interesting. Looks like Conversant's XML-RPC API could easily support the Common Weblogs API - which includes a 'subject' capability!

Like Jim says the lack of a Subject: field in the current implementation of the Blogger API is a major drawback for those of used to these things (in Conversant ;-))

Must follow all the good links that David has posted to SiT recently. I'm very glad that David hasn't stopped blogging as he hinted he might about three weeks ago

Excellent! RadioConversant v1.0d2 has just been released.

I'm just about to express my thanks over in the RadioConversant 1.0d2 support thread.

Macworld: Java is alive and well on the Mac

Java developers will be hearted by news from the Macworld Conference and Expo: Apple's commitment to bundling Java 1.3 in Mac OS X will help ensure Java's success on the Mac platform, as will the company's upgrade to the G4 processor in the new iMac. The product demonstrations in JavaWorld's "State of Java on the Mac" conference session also showed how powerfully the Macintosh platform can run great-looking Java apps.

OPML and XSLT

OPML is "Outline Processor Markup Language" and is a very simple XML format for storing information in outline format Of course, XML itself is perfect for representing hierarchies, but OPML constrains the format enough that a wide variety of applications can build in OPML support with the comfort of knowing it will work with any other OPML tool For information stored in hierarchies, such as web browser bookmarks, web directories, collaborative outlines, song playlists, and even web-site content, OPML is a great balance between the wide open freedom of raw XML and the feeling of security of a formal vocabulary You should be able to read and understand the very small specification in just a few minutes.

the head lemur's Radio Weblog | You've got Linux, Welcome!

The last thing that Linux users would accept would be proprietary applications that were not able to be futzed with. The last thing AOL wants to do is allow anybody to futz with it's vision and softwareJust think back to every attempt to integrate other instant messaging with your AOL "buddys".

I see this report as FUD from AOL to hammer Microsoft and it's MSN network.