Internet Explorer team lunch. So, Dean, the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, invited me out to lunch today. It's not every day that you get invited out to lunch by the guy who runs the team that makes software that hundreds of millions of people use. What did I learn? First. There +IS+… Continue reading Internet Explorer team lunch

Sifry vs MySQL. While I was reading Jeremy Zawodny's reminder post on the Geek Dinner, I saw a link to David Sifry's post Zen and the Art of Bugfixing from March of last year.  Tempted by the title, I followed the link and found an enjoyable post on David's bout with MySQL.  I use Technorati at least… Continue reading Sifry vs MySQL

Birthday wish list. Every year I wait till my brithday to make wishes and predictions.  Here we go. 1. That the PeopleAggregator get back up and running – so everyone can enjoy what Eric Sigler has been up to.  FOAF is definitely the format for interchange of digital IDs and beating on FOAF, pushing the… Continue reading Birthday wish list

Borders' Page-Turning Holidays. The bookseller's holidays were cheerful. [The Motley Fool]

Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.7.5. The personal knowledge base and content manager adds an “append” service for adding a selection to the most recent note, column views that support outlining, and many other changes. [MacInTouch]

Moving pictures. I wanted to demonstrate the SpamBayes plug-in for the school, and I realized I ought to try the screen-capture feature of the free Windows Media Encoder 9. The results were stunning. I set up a new session, pointed it at Outlook's main window, and began encoding. Then I talked through a demonstration of… Continue reading Moving pictures

FogBUGZ for Unix and Macintosh.  Whoo hoo! There's nothing better than shipping a new product.  Fog Creek Software is proud to announce: FogBUGZ for Unix and FogBUGZ for Macintosh.  [Joel on Software]

FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds, Part II. Last night I stated my position on well-formed Atom feeds, but I'm not sure I did a good job of explaining myself. The point here isn't that I'm trying to save myself time by requiring well-formed Atom feeds – I've already written a forgiving RSS parser which could… Continue reading FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds, Part II

FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds. NetNewsWire creator Brent Simmons recently announced that NetNewsWire's future support for Atom will require Atom feeds to be well-formed. Some people aren't too happy about this, claiming that he's applying a double standard that will make Atom appear less useful than RSS. So, I'll add to the stink by stating… Continue reading FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds

BlueDragon 6.1 Beta 2. New Atlanta just announced that BlueDragon 6.1 Beta 2 is now available. According to some of the discussions on various mailing lists, this version is supposed to be able to run Mach II applications so I'll be trying that out… [An Architect's View]