Saturday, January 4, 2003
- Python 2.3 alpha 1 released. For the brave.
- A.M. Kuchling: What’s New in Python 2.3. Sets, generators, logging, and more.
- CGIHTTPServer.py just solved a problem for me.
- Aaron Swartz is looking for the ideal PDA. So is my girlfriend. Aaron recommends the Treo 180.
- Christina Dyrness: What bright idea will hatch next?
Ruby and other local bloggers meet regularly for lunch, where Ruby reports the conversation is often Dilbert-esque sketches of their respective workplaces.
- Ben Trott: Simple and Powerful Text Formatting.
We envision Text Formatting options as complete, encapsulated formatters, handling both the formatting of structured text and any desired typographical details (smart quotes, etc), analogous to the way in which Textile handles quote education and its own miniature formatting language.
Text Formatting screenshot.
- Brad Choate: Reboot.
Goal: To publish the cleanest, content-separated-from-design, standards-compliant, accessible and customizable web site possible. … Why? Because it’s simply the best way to learn.
- MacNN: Apple releases final version of iSync 1.0. We installed this and the updated version of iCal on D’s iBook and things went rapidly downhill. Five hours of troubleshooting later, we did a clean re-install and things are okay again. I’m not saying they’re related, but there it is.
- On the bright side, with the December 20 build of Chimera, I’ve finally convinced my girlfriend to switch to it full-time. It imported all her bookmarks flawlessly, it works with Yahoo Mail, it starts up much faster than any other browser. She loves the popup window blocker. And we set it to open URLs from other applications in a new tab. Then I introduced her to NetNewsWire, set up the sites she reads regularly, and told it to open URLs in the background. She runs NetNewsWire, which auto-downloads all her news. She clicks through on articles that look interesting. She quits NetNewsWire and is left with one Chimera window full of tabs of all the articles she clicked. She runs through the tabs and then gets on with her life.
- Kuro5hin.org: What the future holds for Microsoft.
The document makes a key point, which is that Windows 2000 has a “GUI bias,” and that makes it very hard to reliably manage a machine remotely. This is something that companies have been telling Microsoft for a while, and it appears .Net Server, the server version of Windows XP, will start to address some of those issues.
- Bob DuCharme: Never Mind the Namespaces: An XSLT RSS Client.
One word of caution … not all RSS feeds are well-formed XML, and anything that you load into a source tree for XSLT processing must be well-formed XML. To process ill- formed RSS, you’ll have to go beyond XSLT.
- Analog and ReportMagic rock. They’re not how I analyzed my logs, but you certainly could. (You do have raw access logs, don’t you?) They are both free software, and they both have prebuilt binaries for Windows, Mac, and most Free Software platforms.
- Matt Olson: How to write like a wanker. nuff sed
- Nobody wants my damn cat. Now what do I do?
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