I'm having a great time with at the Big Nerd Ranch Cocoa course. It's so useful to have the regimented sit down time and exercises, and to have people around learning the same thing at the same time, and to have a guru instructor around to ask questions.

The coffee station outside the training room has a water cooler with hot/cold water, and there's a box of Carnation Cocoa mix as well.

We've all been drinkin' the Cocoa. ;-)

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I'm off to the South San Francisco chapter of the Big Nerd Ranch to get Cocoaized. :-)

Have a great weekend!

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COWS == Cluttered Open Window Syndrome, referring to having tons of windows open on your screen at the same time. For some people this is a problem, for other it's heaven.

One of my favourite features of Radio 8 on Mac OS X (and 9 for that matter) is it doesn't have an MDI prison. Multiple monitors attached, and I can work on all of them. Ahhh.... smell the wide open desktop!

Mozilla, mind you, is the ultimate freedom. Tabbed browsing, and multiple windows. It's so effective.

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AnandTech - Apple iPod

So they had the capability to give it a recording feature and they didn't. Argh.

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I got the news via blogtracker. (hehe) I recently set it up to show me new weblogs. Usually there's 1-3 new ones an hour. Well I got home tonight and there were HUNDREDS of new weblogs, all looking like:

"So-and So's Radio Weblog"

I guess that means it has shipped!

I have to admit I was surprised to be invited into the beta program earlier this week to try out the last beta and the final candidates. I haven't always gotten along with Dave Winer (...that was the current understatement of the year on this site), but I've been rock-steady in saying that when Radio UserLand shipped for OS X, I'd be behind it and support it.

I appreciate it that UserLand let me give it a whirl. I helped them get to the bottom of a bug with Mozilla support in OSX, so next time you use Radio and Mozilla together and it just works, think of me, and then think of UserLand, who found and fixed the problem mere hours after I gave them the info they needed.

I was also surprised when I found out the price. $39.95. It's very cheap, I was expecting something like $60-$80. But they'll sell way more than double at this price so, as long as their hosting aspect is sustainable and they're making good money on each copy, this will be a great deal for all. Win-Win. Success, Dave!

Radio UserLand is basically Frontier without Manila and the other server-related stuff that is Frontier-only. I've long been a fan of Frontier. Like all software it's far from perfect, but it's unique and elegant and that makes it cool. Like HyperCard and WebObjects, my two other true loves in software, it breaks barriers, is totally unlike anything else before it, and has an interesting history.

I'll still be maintaining this site using Conversant, because it gives me so many more things Radio doesn't, as a weblogging tool. But I'll be using Radio very often, probably many times a day.

Here's my Radio site: KOSX 125.1 FM. Not sure what I'll use it for yet. :-)

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Update at 10:20 PM on Saturday evening: some more Frontier users (and a surprise appearance by Bill Bumgarner of Cocoa/WO fame and Ken Bereskin of Apple/Rhapsody fame):

• Bill Bumgarner (we've gotta talk, Bill...)
• Peter Mitchell (way to go Peter!)
• Oliver Breidenbach
• Wes Felter
• Grant Hutchinson
• Ken Bereskin's

Here are the "old school" Frontier users I've noticed set up Radio sites this evening:

• Russ Lipton
• Russell Gum
• Steve Zellers
• Jim Correia
• Thomas A. Creedon
• Timothy Paustian (who started the Carbon port and deserves much praise)
• Nicholas Riley
• John VanDyk
• Tom Clifton
• Dave Liebreich
• Andre Radke (URL corrected...)
• Mark Staben
• Josh Lucas
• Paul Snively
• Jeff Imig
• Duncan Smeed
• Robert 'Bump' Occhialini

And while I'm giving out praise: a big thank-you to Brent Simmons for the Services menu in the OS X version of Radio. :-) It's the first Carbon app I've used that has support for Services. I wish I could be happy about that, but Radio is a good start!

Note that there are a lot of other "old school" Frontier folk that have set up Radio sites before last night, during the beta process, and the final candidate stage. But here's a unique one:

Dan Shafer's First Review of Radio 8 -- Dan wrote the docs for Frontier 1.0 in 1991.

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