The 2.0 firmware update ships with a web browser. I hope the browser works with Bloglines. Then I can justify that PSP I bought in June. Wipeout Pure comes with an HTTP widget, but it’s been hardwired for downloading patches and skins for the game. Hopefully the update will also improve the interface for setting [...]
Liam Quin’s representing the W3C’s XML activity in a Q & A today’s last session at Extreme. One person in the audience [Jon Bosak] suggests W3C start a certification program. Fortunately, several people pointed out all the problems with that idea. Another commentor [Emiliana Georgieva] said eBay’s using 4 million lines of XSLT in production. [...]
Some comments and updates on the digital colophon post: Dave Smith suggests: As long as you’re buying pens at Mai Do, try the Zebra Sarasa. It comes in 0.4mm, and writes very smoothly. Don Hosek recommends the Carbonized Emacs for OS X. Brad Choate published his list of OS X apps. Jenni Tauber recommends Devon [...]
I planned to talk about note taking software, but the scope expanded following James Tauber’s call to action on reading Mark Pilgrim’s Digital Colophon: OS: Mac OS 10.3 Unix with a usable GUI. Hell yeah. Editor: BBEdit If I worked on Windows, my editor would be emacs. But I’m not. It magically colors my syntax, [...]
This week I learned I had a 1.5 mb Word file to convert to XML. It’s time to find a tool to do the conversion. I looked at two products that run under Mac OS X: Infinity Loop’s upCast and Logictran’s R2Net. After spending a day poking at them, I recommend upCast. upCast can convert [...]
Orbeon’s Open XML Framework is a Java Servlet that can either work as a pipeline transformer ala Cocoon, or hook into Struts. It’s a commerical product, but also available for free for non-commerical applications.
[ via Simon Willison ] Kevin Lynch at Macromedia asked for ideas on how Macromedia software can help bloggers. Here’s a couple: XML/XHTML editor in Flash, preferably configurable by feeding it an XSD, Relax, or similar Schema file. Support for HTML::Template in Perl, Smarty in PHP, as well as other templating languages in Dreamweaver.
[ via Boing Boing ] For every copy of uber-editor BBEdit bought directly from Bare Bones Software through 31 December 2002, the company will donate ten dollars to the Electronic Freedom Foundation. Someone should buy a copy for John Poindexter, eh?
OASIS has formed a committee to develop a specification for exchange of data between ‘Office’ suites. Sun, Arbortext, Boeing, and Corel are participating. Notably absent is Microsoft.
A page listing web-based WYSIWG page editors. Unfortunately, as the author notes, “the devil has the best tunes”, but Mozilla is catching up with him.
[ via Camworld ] An article that should had been called “Hire my consulting firm or you’ll be fired”, flogs the tired mantra that you should buy an off the shelf Content Management System. Fine. Someone make one that doesn’t cost a million dollars to implement, and does not locks us into expensive consulting contracts.
Useful O’Reilly titles we haven’t considered: “Getting a good set of tools together to dig up useful or amusing bits of information from the mail spool is essential if you’re going to maintain your bargaining position come the new budgetary year.”
West Coast Blimps and Electronics sells kits and parts for making and flying your own model airships.
Peanut Press sells eBooks for Palm and WinCE. They carry some of WisCon GoH Charles de Lint’s back list.
Yesterday in the Merc, IBM ran a full page ad with a bunch of penguins standing around a S/390 — IBM’s current version of the mainframe. Big Blue says they have ported Linux to the S/390 and can run up to 41,000 virtual Linux kernels on one machine. IBM says that one S/390 can do [...]