Month: June 2003

No more IE for Macintosh. Nobody should be surprised by this news: Microsoft is stopping development of IE for Macintosh. They haven't had a competitive browser out for a while, really. IE for X was slow and unpleasant. Camino and even plain vanilla Mozilla have been eating its lunch. Safari isn't quite there yet, but… Continue reading No more IE for Macintosh

Macromedia Laszlo knock-off. Details of Royale – Macromedia's copycat technology  are starting to appear. Rob Burgess says, “It's essentially Flash for programmers.” and that “If you're a hardcore programmer, you really want a tool to use in a server environment, especially as content merges with logic in next-generation applications…” It's such a shame that large… Continue reading Macromedia Laszlo knock-off

Boston Public dealing with funding issues by selling reproductions of library photos, maps and posters through an online store. Apparently many museums and libraries are using this route.[ thanks shoe ] [librarian.net]

New Law Blog that offers creative solutions to legal problems.. New Orleans lawyer A.J. Levy has started a weblog called Out-of-the-Box Lawyering that focuses on creativity — on unusual solutions to legal problems.  I have great hopes for this one.  A.J. is the person who turned me on to Edward DeBono, and we in the legal profession… Continue reading New Law Blog that offers creative solutions to legal problems.

InfoWorld: Tape's last legs. I expect that by 2006, you'll have your pick of recordable drives and libraries capable of storing 25GB to 50GB on each side of a two-sided disc. When that kind of capacity is a reality, tape's time will have finally run out. [Tomalak's Realm]

m0n0wall. m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a… Continue reading m0n0wall

The universal client. The game of Web services is played by passing around XML documents. Office 2003 will be the superior technology for writing/editing (InfoPath) and analyzing (Excel) such documents, but in many cases users will be searching, viewing, tweaking, approving, and routing. It's a huge win if we can use Web standards to do… Continue reading The universal client

Structured writing, structured search. From a user's point of view, XPath query strings are pretty darned geeky. I'm hopeless with them myself unless I have examples in front of me. I find that having a list of examples available in the context of my own live data, and synchronizing it to an input box in… Continue reading Structured writing, structured search

Tap Internet releases LogiCreate App Server as Open Source. Michael Kimsal, director of Tap Internet, has a deep understanding of PHP and software design. I have discussed the design of LogiCreate with Michael before and I was impressed with the care and thought going into it. I still remember Michael struggling to decide whether to… Continue reading Tap Internet releases LogiCreate App Server as Open Source

Subscription services: Look for dialtone. A few weeks ago, the whole family went to a wedding in Boston. (Though I really, really want to, I’m going to refrain from telling that story.) We walked in the house, and I noticed the panel on the ADT alarm system was not on. Now, you’d think that if… Continue reading Subscription services: Look for dialtone