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New user? Thursday, April 1, 2004
RE: YES!
On May 13th, 2000, I posted a message exclaiming that Cyan had learned to properly use a mouse.
Today, Xavier did it. I walked into our spare room and there was Xavier surfing some Clifford pages on pbskids.org (I have that site set up as their home page). He was "stuck" (one of his first words) and I told him to click on the red "Back" arrow. He promptly did!
He started mousing 15 days sooner than Cyan did... both on the same RevB Bondi Blue iMac. Way to go Xavier! :-)
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Stiffing developers feels good?
Submit Response: Quicksilver vs. Launchbar
Even for someone who isn't a raving open source evangelist, this feels pretty good."
Feels pretty good? Why? How can knowing you contribute essentially nothing (not even good intentions!) to the very people who make your computing experience a simple and pleasurable one (except for Apple) make you feel good?
I continue to register shareware programs that I use, and continue to feel good doing so. Funny that he mentions donationware as something different than shareware. ;-)
It's not a surprise that Jack is not a programmer, nor are the site's other contributers.
When I find Jack's art journalism work I'll remember to use it thoroughly but not support it in any material way. Obviously Jack will understand completely and feel good about it.
Oh, and for the record, I like Launchbar better. I'm guessing its developer likes me better too, considering I've paid for two licenses and referred more than I dare try to remember.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Wewease Wahjah!
BBC News: Python film to challenge Passion
I set up a Smart Group in Shrook 2 to find items containing Python, Zope or Plone. It was a nice surprise this morning to find this story about Monty Python's The Life of Brian returning to theatres. :-)
Rexx and Decimal Arithmetic
In days gone by I was a REXX programmer writing shareware scripts on OS/2 that interacted with the SOM-based Workplace Shell. (RIP)
/.: Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years
I was a little embarassed to see I had never heard of Decimal Arithmetic though, which is very cool.
Dave grew up too, and so have I
I think this is the nicest (as in, most polite/caring and least inflammatory) essay I seen from Dave Winer (on the topic of software) since probably '97. I wouldn't have expected this a year ago. Go Dave!
Dave Winer: The baby squirrels grow up
That ought to be on DaveNet.
When he talks about the people who reported bugs and cheered the new features, who loved too much, who were angry about the changes at UserLand in 1998, I was one of those people. I was very angry at the time, because I loved Frontier, more than was healthy.
I nearly fell into that trap again with WebObjects, but after my experience with Frontier I was better prepared, not as easily fooled into loving software and becoming emotionally attached to its journey.
It's comfortable participating in an open source platform and community. If something doesn't happen, or something doesn't get done as well as I think it should have, I have only one person to blame. Me. And I have so many other responsibilities that take priority over a software platform that my expectations are far more realistic than they would have been a few years ago.
Lately I've taken further steps towards growing up, and ironically it means being a kid again for a while. I'd love to say more about it, but the time isn't right yet. Soon though.
Plone 2.0 released
plone.org PR: Plone 2.0: The Most Productive Content Management System
Congrats to the Plone team for finally pushing the baby out the door. :-) We all went to the Plone conference in October of 2003 thinking 2.0 would be released there. Then we went to COMDEX thinking it would be released there. Then when Plone went to Jupiter we all thought that was 2.0. And then the snow sprint in Austria. But now, finally, it's released, when it's ready.
On to 2.0.1! :-)
How to get your shit together in 10 easy steps
Design Observer: Michael McDonough's Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Thanks to Rafe for posting this link to his weblog.
