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15Jul/01Off

TN 2027: How to write a JDBC Plugin (With Example)

WebObjects 5 Technote: How to write a JDBC Plugin (With Example)

"With WebObjects 5, all database access goes through the JDBC Adaptor. JDBC is widely supported by database vendors, but not every data source behaves exactly the same way so the adaptor uses a helper class, a subclass of JDBCPlugIn, to customize the JDBC adaptor for a particular database or driver. [...] This article describes how to build a custom plugin."
15Jul/01Off

WWDC 2001 DVDs are way too expensive

Apple wants US$600 for this year's WWDC-DVD set!!! $400 for ADC Select members -- I don't know how much it is for Premier members. I've heard they're free for WWDC attendees but I don't know if that's true yet. I doubt it.

Last year's set was $150, or $100 for WWDC attendees. Once again Apple is forgetting that getting information into developers hands is something they should be bending over backwards to do, NOT putting up huge roadblocks for.

Now, maybe, maybe if they had made this year's content available as actual DVD-video playable in DVD players, it'd be worth $600 (since it would consume a lot more DVD discs). But it's still just DVD-ROMs full of QuickTime files!

$600 for 5 DVD-ROMS? No way.

15Jul/01Off

WebDAV filewriter for Frontier

Nicholas Riley: WebDAV filewriter for Frontier

"As promised, I wrote a filewriter for WebDAV. This allows you to send files to your DAV-supporting Web server directly, instead of through FTP, AFP, SMB/CIFS, or another file-sharing protocol."

This is pretty darn cool. It's a shame (from my POV, probably not theirs) that UserLand diverged off their ContentServer path (which I think is the best CMS tool they ever made) when they decided to focus on writing and weblogging tools instead of sophisticated CMSs. They had announced a WebDAV server for Frontier/ContentServer a few months before the corner-turn.

The top HTML editing tools (and Windows and Mac OS X itself) support WebDAV in their latest releases. Could have made for a great combination.

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