• Pipelined Web Services

    Posted on March 14, 2004

    Russell Beattie has two great posts in his blog, the first about web services becoming more like Unix style tools and then some further discussion about the similarities and differences between the two styles. I groove completely the the beats Russ is laying down. Usages like this are something that... [Read More]

  • Medium Transforming Communication

    Posted on March 13, 2004

    Engadget had a post about a novel delivered to cell phones in 1,600 word installments, which sounded interesting but I held off posting about it for a while. The concept does have some initial “neat” factor to it, but I wanted to mull it over for a little while. This... [Read More]

  • Gnome Notifier

    Posted on March 13, 2004

    A post in Miguel’s blog mentions a system called Gnome Notifier, which provides a way for applications to use area in the panel to get the users attention rather than using popups. I thought that XChat used to have a panel component that would tell you what tabs had activity,... [Read More]

  • Vagablog 1.9

    Posted on March 12, 2004

    As I’m sure most of you already know, I have a package for Palm handhelds called Vagablog that allows posting directly from a Palm handheld to all sorts of blogging services. I finally released the 1.9 version today. I was on the road for the last month pretty much, so... [Read More]

  • Visual Timeline (and lineage) of Computer Languages

    Posted on March 12, 2004

    Gadgetopia posted about a timeline of computer languges. The chart is actually part of a Computer Languages History page, which has links to all sorts of great info. Taking a look at the chart itself it seems like there isn’t as much cross-pollination of languages as there used to be.... [Read More]

  • WINKsite blog

    Posted on March 12, 2004

    There have been a bunch of updates to the WINKsite blog lately. Dave Harper, one of the driving forces behind WINKsite (which is just one instantiation of the general Wireless Ink technology), has been laying out some interesting topics. Even though it’s one of the older updates, I highly recommend... [Read More]

  • Direction of the Mono Project

    Posted on March 12, 2004

    There’s a report by Edd Dumbill about the Mono project developer meeting, and it includes some good information about the long term goals of the project. I downloaded and fooled around with GNOME long before it was part of any distribution, and did some hacking for the Palm Pilot interface.... [Read More]

  • IRC Tools

    Posted on March 11, 2004

    I’ve been wandering around through various IRC channels on freenode.net, and while idling in the #scheme channel I saw a message from the lisppaste bot. I had never seen it before, but it’s a bot that allows for pasting content to a permenant location and sending a notification to the... [Read More]

  • Tiny Linux Computer

    Posted on March 11, 2004

    An article over at O’Reilly describes the Gumstix computer, a very small ARM based Linux machine. The systems themselves seem to be quite cheap compared to other embedded system development systems. Information on the sites seems to be a bit spotty with relation to how development tools are made available.... [Read More]

  • Weblogs as Divergent Thinking

    Posted on March 10, 2004

    I’ve spent quite a bit of time lately wandering around through various blogs and maintaining my own, but during the last two weeks I’ve had more time to think about what I’ve been doing rather than just continuing to do it. Something that really struck me was how many popular... [Read More]