Month: March 2003

Cisco's General Counsel doesn't like to pay lawyers to bill by the hour. Read Rick Klau's post about Mark Chandler's vision of what his outside counsel should be doing.  And note that last statistic that Rick quotes: by the end of this year Chandler expects that 80% of the money it pays to outside lawyers… Continue reading Cisco's General Counsel doesn't like to pay lawyers to bill by the hour

Mainstreaming Zope.  Paul Everitt, former DigiCool CEO now touring Europe to evangelize Zope/Python, has been blogging at Zope Dispatches for a couple of months. I'm amazed to see that it is now four years since I keynoted the first Zope conference. Today, there are still far too few Joe Professional Programmers who get what Zope… Continue reading Mainstreaming Zope

Men and Women Aren't Alike. Really.. Andrew Hacker's depressing new book uses sometimes dubious methodology to ratify women's worst fears about the opposite sex. By Michiko Kakutani. [New York Times: Books]

Happy Birthday!

I'm reminded of the following lines from the musical Camelot: The winter is forbidden 'till DecemberAnd exits March the second on the dot I hope winter ends soon here too.

The Promise of XML Realized. Microsoft's Jean Paoli, the architect of Office 11's XML support, was co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification with Tim Bray. The first thing Paoli showed Bray was that any existing .doc file can be saved as XML — specifically, as WordML, which expresses both the style and the content of… Continue reading The Promise of XML Realized

Another Victory for the US Patent System. Interwoven has been granted a patent for using versioning systems to create web sites. In other words, the sort of In other words, the sort of thing people have been doing with CVS for 5-6 years. (via Slashdot) [Six Log]

Microsoft's XP support for Wi-Fi is good in many ways, although it can be funky, especially with closed networks and with WEP keys. It doesn't offer a profile management interface to make it easier to switch among networks. It doesn't offer encrypted key storage that could be accessed, often requiring key re-entry.  [80211b News]

Dan Lyke points out that Microsoft is now giving the Windows source code to China. Oh, I didn't tell you, but Microsoft has already said that any MVP will be given access to the source code if they want it. Now, what am I going to do with 50 million lines of source code? It… Continue reading Dan Lyke points out that Microsoft is now giving the Windows source code to China

mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.0 released. eGenix.com is pleased to announce the availability of a professional quality Zope Database Adapter (Zope DA) for ODBC based on our mxODBC product: the mxODBC Zope DA. The mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving… Continue reading mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.0 released