My old boss from UW Madison, Joel Rogers, and Richard Freeman propose a new approach to an old form of Union organizing. In the early days of American Labor, union membership was offered to any “wage worker”. You didn’t have to be an employee of a shop with a union contract. Union members may not [...]
Tim O’Reilly gave a version of his essay on Inventing the Future as his keynote talk at the Apple WWDC this afternoon. He put a Mac spin on things (of course,) and said some things that make me proud to be a Mac Partisan: the Perl 6 internals team is using Mac OS. James Gosling’s [...]
Andy Edmonds wrote that he’s using the Mozilla xmlHttpRequest object in his sidebar application which consumes and displays OPML from Radio’s instant outliner.
Mozilla has an XMLHttpRequest object modeled on the HTTPRequest object in IE. Scott Andrew has a worked example on his WebLog. Updated: I’m getting many visits from people searching for XMLHttpRequest. The original URL 404′ed, so I found the new URL on Scott’s site.
Wow, this is one from the referer logs. I just discovered that the GPL’ed source for this WebLog has been adapted by a member of the Indian Parliament, Suresh Prabhu, the Union Minister for Power, to run a catalog of development projects. Pretty cool, and kinda flattering. And just goes to show you how this [...]
Lawrence Lessig gave a talk on IP and the Commons today at Stanford. I’ve put my notes from the talk on my other website. I missed the first part of the talk because I had to get a Filemaker server back up… grr.
Gopher is 10 years old. The University of Minnesota GPLed the source, and a new version of the server and client, the Furry Terror release, have been released.
[ via CMSWatch ] Wyona.org is hosting a conference on Open Source content management systems this March in Zurich.
Apple Developer Connection has an article on installing MySQL. What’s important about this one is that it goes into how to use NetInfo Manager to secure the installation.
The visual effects industry migrates from SGI to Linux. Interesting lessons are learned about the differences between Quake and Shrek, as well as Open Source and in-house proprietary graphics applications.
[ via Aaronland ] I didn’t realize AbiWord’s native file format was XML. That means you can edit in AbiWord and transform it to other formats. There’s an XSLT stylesheet to go from AbiWord to HTML.
Eben Moglen thinks the surrender to MS has to do with campaign money, Hollywood’s quest to prevent copying, and PC makers wanting to sell new hardware.
O’Reilly launched a directory of open source software for the Mac OSes.
Aaron Hillegass, an experienced Cocoa/NextStep developer/trainer wrote an application for doing PowerPoint-style presentations using XML as the format for the slides. The XML dialect is kinda-sorta like DocBook. You can download the the GPL’ed project as well.
Univall.net, an Indian IT company, uses the MoreLikeThis PHP scripts to maintain their weblog. Cool.