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New user? Saturday, October 14, 2000
Biggggaaa hard drive
My hard drive is filling up. I'm gonna get me a 60-gigger from Costco later today.
Alex, who has one, said, and I'm paraphrasing, "screw MP3, with a 60 GB drive go WAV all the way!" ;-)
I don't need all that space, but buying a smaller drive is just a waste of money.
Conversant upgrade
Macrobyte has been rolling out new features and upgrades to Conversant today. Seth tells me the weblog plugin was optimized somewhat, but he didn't think the difference would be noticable.
Free-Conversant Support: Loads of New Stuff -- "Prepare to be overwhelmed." That's a big rollout!
Maybe it's just me, but I notice a big difference in rendering speed for weblog pages. Surfing through the archive calendar is way way faster. What do you think, is it faster for you too?
Friday, October 13, 2000
I feel so validated :-)
I've been poking around Zope again, finally. I was sooo happy when I looked at the Define Permissions panel and found basically the exact same roles-based action-oriented permissions-acquisition design that I cooked up and convinced my customer into using for their CMS I'm building.
It's a good sign that this one-off CMS mirrors the design of a very well designed system like Zope in at least one aspect. :-)
Okay, now I can sleep in peace tonight... ahhh... sleeep.
You can get your own Zope site at http://www.zopesite.com/. Very cool.
Thursday, October 12, 2000
Yesterday was rock bottom
Okay, yesterday was a recent rock bottom. There have been worse times in my life of course, but yesterday is way up there on the shit list. I didn't share all of my misery on this site, which is why I said "It's worse than it appears" yesterday.
Things are looking much better today. And thank you to everyone who discussed the dog-situation with me, privately or on this site. It really really really helped, I appreciate it dearly.
Worth reading again...
I was thinking today about WebObjects, after reading this on osx.macnn.com:
So, go to the ADC site, join the program, click on downloads, and have a blast. Interface Builder and all the other OS X tools await you! (Well, WebObjects is not free, but still...)
It reminded me something I wrote earlier this year. It's worth reading again, I think.
WebObjects is free -- updated with a link to the WebObjects Overview movies on the WO training site.
Here's a really old article by David Neumann, a very talented and respected WebObjects developer who used to work on WO at NeXT and then Apple and now works for Valicert, IIRC.
How-To: RSS in Conversant
Conversant is so powerful that you usually don't have to wait for the vendor to add features for you. This is a perfect example. Steve Ivy has RSS being generated from his site just by being creative. Being able to have and use unlimited templates in a site is just one of the many features that helps make this possible.
Another example: a flat view of the discussion group rather than the traditional threaded view, by Mark Morgan in early October.
Greg Pierce is also working on that, using some new unreleased Conversant features that make setting up (and customizing 100%) a flat-view much easier.
