Wired has an article on Wallop, Microsoft Research’s experiments in blogging. Link via Scripting News.
Archive | 2003
Doc Searl’s SuitWatch
In Doc’s latest SuitWatch column, he collects an intriguing variety of opinions on the Novell – SuSE acquisition. In summary, this is not the Novell of past decades and they have their work cut out for them, finding the successful path from proprietary NOS vendor to OSS supporter. Let’s wish them luck. Competition is good for the marketplace and good for innovation.
Fedora Followup: Perhaps Things Are Not As Bad As They First Appeared
First, I found that I was misinformed in thinking that Fedora could not be installed as an upgrade over RedHat 8 or 9. It appears that that is not a problem.
I’ve successfully download all three binary and three source CD-ROM images for Fedora via BitTorrent, while simultaneously passing them on to others, acting as part of the solution to the problem. I plan to install them on the test workstation laptop this coming week, and then the in-house intranet server should that go well.
Fedora is getting a good reception, so far. Ars Technica said nice things about it here. I’ll give it a try and tell you my experiences.
What do the candidates’ web sites run for software?
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7239
Microsoft is researching blogs
Not surprisingly, with AOL coming out with blogging software and Google buying Pyra Labs, Microsoft is checking it out. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal blogs: “My colleague, Michael Bazeley, points me to Wallop, a project of the Online Lab at Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Group…. ” in Microsoft Experiments with Blogging and Social Software.
Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch noted the site here
Rick Strahl supplies RSS feeds at West Wind
Rick has two RSS feeds on the front page of http://www.west-wind.com. Neither pass the Feed Validator check at http://www.feedvalidator.org because the feeds do not include email addresses. Isn’t this just asking for a spam harvester to collect your address, though?
Check out Rick’s two feeds:
What’s New at http://www.west-wind.com/Westwindnews.rss.xml
Articles at http://www.west-wind.com/Westwindarticles.rss.xml
Craig fixes his posts, blogosphere cheers!
Permalinks Fixed. There ya go Ted! [FoxBlog]
The Register on Red Hat and Fedora…
Red Hat’s Fedora released – the upgrade path for the rest of us?. “What if we have a cuckoo in the nest here?” [The Register]
FoxPro Conference in Frankfurt, Germany
Check out the coverage of the Frankfurt, Germany confence by Hans-Otto Lochman and Armin Neudert posted here.
FoxPro DevCon 2004 – 29Sept – 2Oct in Las Vegas, NV
DevCon Announced. From FoxBlog via [Andrew MacNeill – AKSEL Solutions]
Thanks to Craig for monitoring for this.
Advisor has announced the next VFP DevCon to be held Sept. 29 – Oct 2 in Las Vegas. No announcement of the hotel. I think Vegas is a great location. I can drive there in about six hours. The hotels are cheap, food is cheap, rooms are cheap, airfare for others is cheap. Kudos to Advisor!
On a related note, Ken Levy has publically hinted that DevCon will be the official launch for VFP9. Let’s look at the calendar and see how accurate this could be for release dates. VFP 8 was released in February. Typically, VFP has been on an 18 month schedule. That would put release at sometime around July. Ken also recently stated on the Universal Thread that the Fox team added three months to the schedule to allow for additional testing and QA. Now we’re looking at October. The dates look about right to me for release about the same time as DevCon.”
I would have posted Craig’s original posting, but the links to his blog are still broken in his RSS feed, and I couldn’t figure out a way to permalink to his posting.
Looks like if you’re planning to go to the FoxPro DevCon, you could go a few days earlier and see what Novell is up to at Advisor’s Novell DevCon, too.