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New user? Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Paul Everitt's oxygen/XSLT demo
If you've ever wanted someone to hold you hand and show you the absolute basics of XSLT, Paul Everitt is here for you. Turn up your speakers, and make sure your Flash plug-in is ready. :-)
Narrated demo of XML/XSLT with the editor
Thanks Paul!
Kuro5hin member switches to Zope
Kuro5hin: Switching from PHP to Zope/Python
A pretty good set of reasons for switching. I don't think someone needs to completely abandon PHP though. There are scenarios where using PHP is better than Zope, simply because Zope is generally slower than PHP.
Use the right tool for the job. Zope is the right tool for the content management job. PHP is good at pushing dynamic pages out fast. And Zope is a good way to make fast PHP pages, because after all, PHP pages are content, and your Zope CMS is a good way to manage those. :-)
Shrook 2: NetNewsWire has company
I installed Shrook 2 today. I had low expectations, and I'll admit the only reason they were low was because the web site was rather unprofessional looking.
Even if the site had been a thing of beauty, this app immensely EXCEEDED my wildest expectations! Shrook 2 is truly awesome software. It has a number of features that are truly incredible, like Distributed Checking (which means you get updates way faster without added bandwidth burden on the RSS feed servers), Smart Groups, the ability to flag (mark) items, and the ability to view the web page the item points to right in the app (it uses WebKit).
Oh, and you can have multiple Shrooks have synchronized subscription lists and read-status of items. That alone is a killer feature. At the bottom of the File menu is an "Import from NetNewsWire..." command. It worked perfectly and seemed to do its job instantaneously on my PowerBook G3 500.
I love NNW as well, but Shrook 2 meets my needs better. I've always wanted to be able to mark RSS items and share my RSS item database over more than one computer. I'm going to give Shrook a thorough evaluation over the next few days, and if it is stable, I will be registering the software.
I never thought we'd see a better RSS reader for OS X than NetNewsWire, but IMHO, Shrook is better. In the long run I hope it ends up being a positive thing for Ranchero rather than a negative thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the only person that switches in the short term.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
CoreGraphics with Python in Panther redux
MacDevCenter.com: Panther, Python, and CoreGraphics
Three great tastes that go great together. :-)
On Halloween last year I posted a link to another article about CoreGraphics and Python in Panther. I noticed this because as I started typing CoreGraphics in the subject field of my weblog posting form, Safari auto-completed the field to "CoreGraphics with Python in Panther" which is the subject of that weblog post!
Thanks for the reminder, Safari! :-)
Tyrell site powered by Plone 2.0, CSS
Just in time for the big Plone 2.0 announcement this week, www.tyrell.com is now live on Plone 2.0!
Not only that, it uses Plone 2.0's table-less design. But it doesn't look like a Plone site, because the design has been fully adapted to the Tyrell look and feel using CSS.
:-)
PS: The Plone 2.0 installer for Mac OS X is available on the Plone download page.
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Pyblosxom 0.9 released
via PyPI... Pyblosxom 0.9 -- "After several months of hard work by all the developers and members of the community, we've released the next version of Pyblosxom."
The changes look impressive, if somewhat polar *g*, including added support for Atom 0.3 and the MetaWeblog API. :-)
vsbabu on Bangalore
vsbabu.org: So, How is Bangalore?
Ever since last summer when I learned from a friend of mine that Indian programmers in Bangalore generally have a better standard of living in India than they would have doing the same work while living in the USA, I've been fascinated with the Indian IT community and enjoy reading weblogs from Indians, especially those in India.
Vattekkat Satheesh Babu moved to Bangalore a month ago. I really enjoyed reading this story about his new (and old) home.
Thanks!
