November 16, 1999 – 12:00 am
Ah, Grace Hopper would be smiling down on us from Heaven, COBOL’s available as a scripting language for Linux, Solaris and NT.
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November 1, 1999 – 12:00 am
From the people who brought you the “Happy Hacking Keyboard,” comes the Happy Hacking Cradle that will let you plug your PS/2 style keyboard into your Pilot.
Emile (I think you pronounce it Emily) is an XML editor for the Macintosh. Of course, anything that can handle Unicode text is an XML editor. But this has some smarts built into to display toolbars based on the DTD you’re using. Better yet, it has some facilities for editing DTDs. That’s the sort of [...]
Simon St. Laurent has a draft article on the benefits that XML could provide to small developers:
“Relying on a single vendor’s closed integration requires an enormous amount of trust in that vendor, and even using components from multiple vendors within a common framework requires trust in that framework. As open source developments provide new frameworks [...]
February 17, 1999 – 12:00 am
“The most frequently asked question we field at The Monticello Companies, Inc. is why do we have the number 666 on our Monticello Drug Products.”
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February 17, 1999 – 12:00 am
“Only professionals will be allowed to sell on the site, although anyone will be able to buy over the Internet. The site will initially focus on goods with auction prices of $300-$10,000, with bidders paying by credit card.”
“Asked whether clients would be willing to buy works without having actually seen them in person, Redden pointed [...]
February 2, 1999 – 12:00 am
Instant Delivery is a new HP product which allows you to schedule fetching and printing resources such as Web pages and PDF files from the ‘net.
If you’re developing your site using a content management system like Frontier, XML+XSL, or you’ll pulling it out of a database (like this page) then the application of this tool [...]
January 27, 1999 – 12:00 am
Delta Airlines recinded their plan to add a $2 surcharge to any ticket not purchased via the Web.
I guess it was either that or make the site accessible.
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January 15, 1999 – 12:00 am
A friend in the travel industry mentioned that Delta will charge anyone, including agents, a two dollar surcharge on any ticket not purchased through their Web site.
This is the output of checking Delta’s site against the BOBBY accessiblity tool at CAST. It doesn’t pass muster. So if you’re blind or otherwise differently abled and don’t [...]
January 13, 1999 – 12:00 am
An Active X component for producing XML from ODBC and OLE(!) data sources.
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January 11, 1999 – 12:00 am
This page summarizes the argument for XML. I can generate multiple views off the same XML data, and all I need to edit is the XSL style sheet.
“The Java Lobby site will soon offer High and Low bandwidth options. The only changes required to do this are a change to the user’s profile and High [...]
January 11, 1999 – 12:00 am
Oracle’s 8i, which could be a major part of any organization’s XML strategy, is running behind schedule as the company works on getting all the tools integrated.
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January 9, 1999 – 12:00 am
An expert system for solving ‘British’-style crossword puzzles where the clues are highly involved wordplay. The man who writes puzzles for “The Nation” is a retired cryptoanalyst.
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December 24, 1998 – 12:00 am
The latest version of BBEdit, the Macintosh source editor, includes an SGML parser so you can validate your HTML. I’m a RFC-hugging standards bigot. So when I read this review, I laughed.
It can be beneficial to run your pages through a syntax checker, but it can also be maddening. In many cases, BBEdit 5’s syntax [...]
December 22, 1998 – 12:00 am
A German site featuring automated price comparisons. I tried it for a book on Linux mentioned at Slashdot and got a comprephensive report back listing prices for several online stores and shipping options. It’d be nice if you could sort results like Computers.com allows you to.
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