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New user? Saturday, December 9, 2000
Proposed Enhanced XML-RPC Standard
via Scripting News: A Proposal for an Expanded and Enhanced XML-RPC Standard (not by UserLand)
The enhancements Randy suggests look quite reasonable, he's trying to push logic out of the server handlers and user of the client, and into the transport (client and server). That means most (if not all) his goals could be achieved with more logic in the layers above the client and below the server. Not the best place for this kind of logic, but at least it wouldn't change the standard.
I'm really surprised Randy didn't include any new datatypes. NIL is a datatype supported by a few of the implementations already, and a LOT of people have begged for a tag that would let arbitrary XML tags into the request/response (without escaping them in a string datatype).
Friday, December 8, 2000
Vertical Limit plain stupid
Vertical Limit plain stupid -- "So, if a major motion picture like 'Vertical Limit' can't even get the appearance of the white stuff right - which it can't in key cave scenes - they are in for a rough time in the Great White North. "
New heights -- "There's a great deal to be learned from the mountain rescue thriller Vertical Limit. At 26,000 ft., tears don't freeze, breath doesn't crystallize, makeup remains pristine and love blossoms."
I think we have a winner folks! ;-)
TOMB RAIDER
The Tomb Raider teaser trailer was released today.
I watched through this trailer (Jolie rocks!) and then saw, "In theatres everywhere, June 15th".
JUNE 15th!! I have to wait over 6 months to see this movie! Augghhh.
Florida Supreme Court orders recount
Just in: Florida Supreme Court orders recount -- "In a stunning split decision, the Florida Supreme Court Friday cut Republican George W. Bush's lead in the state's presidential race to 154 votes and ordered a manual recount of at least 43,432 "undervotes" around the state. "
Whoa.
An hour later it's pretty clear it's total chaos at this point. Sad.
AIM for Windows sucks
Why is AOL Instant Messenger for Windows so crappy compared to the Macintosh version?
The Mac version is fully scriptable, has text-to-speech, has an option to automatically log your sessions, and has Buddy Alerts, which let you perform a custom action when a user logs in.
I'm sure that's not all, but it's more than enough.
VMWare
Today's Q Daily News reminds everyone to purchase their VMWare hobbyist license in the next 8 days, because after that, there will be no hobbyist price.
Hocus-pocus on RSS-DEV
Someone forged a message to the RSS-DEV list.
http://www.egroups.com/message/rss-dev/1293
The person who sent it was staying in the New Orleans Hilton, currently the site of the eDevCon and CNET conferences.
Thursday, December 7, 2000
Mario Lemieux planning comeback?
SLAM! Sports Report: Mario Lemieux planning comeback with Pittsburgh Penguins -- "USA Today reports that Lemieux is expected to announce next week that he's planning a comeback as a player within 30 days."
Unfreakingbelievable.
Here's the USAToday report. The link might not work in a week though.
MindManager Business Edition
I downloaded this last night (found the link on the Radio DG), I'm going to play with it this weekend. I love these kinds of tools.
SVG and Flash for WO
New: SVGObjects -- "SVGObjects is a framework for vending SVG components from WebObjects. Now a technology pre-release, SVGObjects Framework demonstrates the use of Apple's WebObjects to serve dynamic SVG content."
Another tool for WO, ReportMill, makes it very easy to dynamically generate complex PDF and Flash content from WebObjects.
The great part about WebObjects is reusability. SVGObjects and Reportmill use the same Enterprise Objects classes you wrote for your Web app to generate SVG, PDF and Flash.
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows
SuperSite for Windows: Windows "Whistler" Beta 1 reviewed -- "In Whistler, you can log out but keep the previous user session available for simultaneous use."
Damn, that rocks. Of course, X-Windows users have had this forever, but as far as I know it isn't a feature of Mac OS X. I wished a number of times it would be.
Bradley Peters' have browser, will travel
Bradley Peters created a beautiful template for his version of this weblog.
You're also invited to make your own version of this site; send me the templates and I'll set up the page!
Apache vs. IIS
Google search: Apache rewriting -- features a lot of articles about using mod_rewrite to rewrite URLs so that you can avoid having ?args=in&your=urls.
Google search: IIS rewriting -- features a lot of articles about rewriting your applications when they are no longer scalable, or rewriting applications that worked great under Apache and are now having problems under IIS.
Why can't I find a mod_rewrite equivalent for IIS? I hate IIS.
