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New user? Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Microsoft caught stuffing the ballot boxes
ZDNet UK: .Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services
This is a pretty common occurance (not just with Microsoft). Anonymous online polls are for the most part, bogus.
Weblogger lunch
A lunch that I (and Damien) thought would be about 4 or 5 people turned about to be about 20 people. I guess a few people linked to where Damien said there'd be a lunch.
It was nice, I met a lot of people I'd never met before, but lunch ended up being a 2.5 hour getaway!!! :-(
We were in the Yerba Beuna park, and a lady with a camera and clipboard came up and asked us if we wanted to be in a Microsoft ad, and they'd pay $500 for a half day's work. :-)
I need the money, but not THAT bad. Not selling out. Nope. (To be honest I couldn't have done it that day anyway)
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
iPhoto.. no scripting dictionary
Brent mentions on mac.scripting.com that iPhoto isn't really scriptable.
I noticed this yesterday when I dragged the app onto Script Editor. No Scripting Dictionary Found... :(
I think there's a good reason for this... you don't want someone scripting iPhoto to do a 1-click purchase of photo prints and hard bound books to their address... especially if you happen to have remote apple events turned on and an easy to guess password. :-)
It's a bummer that it isn't scriptable though. Perhaps in a future version they could ask the user during installation if they want AppleScript support installed, along with an explanation of the consequences... mind you Apple probably wouldn't want to suggest to their users that AppleScript is a security threat.
That said, I really want to find the time to download the iPhoto scripts to see HOW it's doing the scripting!
Monday, January 7, 2002
Tears of joy
I got up early to watch the keynote... at work by 8:30 so I could use the T1. That in itself is a wonder. ;-)
I already knew of the new iMac because it was leaked last night, and I was on irc.appleinsider.com (one of the few times I've ever used IRC in my life) when the word came down. We saw two tiny pictures of this thing.
The new iMac is pure class. To see the thing in motion, to see it on the desks of people using it (especially Seal, what a nice desk!), I couldn't believe it.
But wow. Okay I'm disappointed in the keynote overall as I type this but every minute I am more and more amazed by what Apple has done. iPhoto is beyond unbelievable. I'm running it on my PowerBook G3 right now, I just imported a bunch of pictures, I'm going to make a slideshow with a soundtrack later.
Cheryl is due to give birth to my 2nd child, my 1st son, on January 26th. I have to admit, I cried watching the iPhoto TV advertisement. It's beautiful. Life... is beautiful.
The slideshow, the web photo album, the hard bound BOOK... iMovie, iDVD. This is about enriching our lives and the lives of those around us by sharing the beauty that is life.
This is why they do what they do, Steve Jobs said. He didn't put it as I just did in the preceding paragraph but that's what he meant. I praise Steve Jobs for being a hard ass, for throwing out the early designs of the new iMac, and everyone at Apple for making sure iPhoto did what it did (i heard on IRC last night that iPhoto's development was a hard journey).
As I've said before I'm not religious. I do not have a religious affiliation. But if I had to pick one, I'd have to say being an Apple worshipper would be a good one. :-)
Thank you Apple.
Game on!
Ontario judge dismisses woman's complaint that road hockey violates bylaw
"Game on!"
For people not familiar with road hockey, "Game on!" is what you yell after the car passes and you put the nets back in place, and signal that play should resume. "Car!" is what you yell when you see a vehicle coming to signal the goalies to move the nets so it the vehical can pass... ;-)
cf. Wayne's World, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, 1992.
One last thing... WebObjects 5.1
What, you didn't hear Steve Jobs extolling the virtues of the newest version of it's wonderful Java application server today during the keynote? Me either. Must have been a technical glitch.
Perhaps if the undead from Adobe and Palm hadn't taken so much time sucking the energy out of the first 20 minutes of the keynote there would have been time. ;-)
Here are the highlights (new features, that is) of WebObjects 5.1, courtesy of Max Muller (who doesn't even have a home page, can you believe it?):
- You can now use EJBs (not 2.0 beans) in your web apps, ie a woa can now be a container if so desired. Note not integrated into EOF, two different stacks.
- EJB framework types for PBX (with wizrds to walk you through create your first bean ;), support all 4 bean types
- JNDI EOAdaptor for access to LDAP
- JSP deployment via Tomcat and WebLogic
- Can embed WOComponents in JSP pages, heck can even go so far as to call session and application methods from a JSP page.
VERY sweet. Also, Documentation includes several new and updated books, all new reference documentation in Javadoc format, and enhancements to Java Client.
The upgrade from version 5.0 is $19.95 for S+H.
