Month: July 2003

OSCON Day #2: New Features in MySQL. David is presenting MySQL's new features, covering 4.0, 4.1, and a bit of 5.0. I'm at this presentation mostly because I've been using the new features that I no longer consider them new. That means I have trouble enumerating the new features when people ask. So I'm hoping… Continue reading OSCON Day #2: New Features in MySQL

Forta Blogging. Ben Forta has finally given in to the inevitable and started blogging. Ben pretty much always has something insightful to say so this ought to be a killer blog…. [An Architect's View]

Mach II – Initial Thoughts. I've just started looking at the new Mach II framework (formerly Fusebox MX). The framework is built on an implicit invocation architecture (you can read some background to this on the Fusebox Beta website), using “listeners” and “events” and comes… [An Architect's View]

The best information filter is your local librarian [librarian.net]

Ray Ozzie talks about how mobile apps should act. Yeah! I know Chris Pirillo hates Outlook 2003, but the new Outlook is freaking awesome. It doesn't barf when you leave a wireless node. It doesn't slow you down. It doesn't crash. Why? Cause it pretends it's always offline. And wait until you see how it… Continue reading Ray Ozzie talks about how mobile apps should act

ISP helps members sell Net to neighbors. Independent broadband provider Speakeasy is allowing subscribers to resell their Internet access via wireless set-ups–turning their homes into Wi-Fi hot spots. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL. I'm in John Ashenfelter's Data Warehouses talk this morning. He's an excellent presenter who really knows his material and is completely sold on MySQL. At least one person in the audience has already extolled the use of MySQL in data warehousing applications. I'm taking notes real-time, so… Continue reading OSCON Day #2: Building Data Warehouses with MySQL

What does the future hold for UserLand? Dave is at Harvard working on his fellowship. John Robb is no longer with the company. This leaves Jake and Lawrence treading water. What will become of Frontier, Manila, Radio, XML-RPC, and RSS, not to mention all of the other great stuff that is being held by the… Continue reading X-log

A shakeup at Userland?.  Looks like things are moving over in Userland, where (except for Dave, who is after all only majority shareholder now, having given up the CEO-ship when he took his fellowship) only Lawrence’s blog and the product news page have been active in the past month. Yesterday two significant happenings: John Robb… Continue reading A shakeup at Userland?

Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand. This is part of a bigger transition, one that we're not ready to talk about yet. It should be, net-net, good news for Manila and Radio users, and for the weblog community. We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us by writing about his departure on his weblog.… Continue reading Untitled