Month: May 2001

Andromeda 1.4 (Default)

Andromeda 1.4 (Default). ASP and PHP scripts which dynamically convert folders of MP3s into a web site. [freshmeat.net]

Wanna Be a Project Manager?

Webmonkey: Wanna Be a Project Manager? Red Industries consists of just four people, yet we follow this process carefully because we value our down time. Using this process, we're able to handle large jobs yet still take weekends off. It works for us — and hopefully it will help some of you avoid another late… Continue reading Wanna Be a Project Manager?

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds has an excellent rebuttal to Craig Mundie's speech. [Scripting News]

Semantic Web to be Berners-Lee's second success?

Semantic Web to be Berners-Lee's second success?. With the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee is attempting to reproduce the technique that worked so well with the Web — a simple concept magnified by billion of distributed sites. However, more effort will be needed to convince the skeptics. [xmlhack]

Open secrets

Dylan Tweney: Open secrets. These technical and market forces combine on the Internet to create an environment where information of the most private nature can quickly be disseminated worldwide, in seconds. In other words, “Information wants to be public.” [Tomalak's Realm]

Microsoft bashes open source

Microsoft bashes open source. All the news wires today are abuzz with the recent speech by Craig Mundie of Microsoft. In it, he proposes Microsoft's vision of “shared source”, which attempts to combine many of the advantages of open source with the advantages of proprietary development. [Advogato]

Out of Print, But Into Digital

Wired News: Out of Print, But Into Digital. The digital antiquarian began his collection of rarities when he first purchased a first printing of Euclid's Elements. Ten years later, he founded Octavo, a company that uses digital technology to capture images of rare books, manuscripts and other materials on CD-ROMs. [Tomalak's Realm]