Brian Livingston opines “Run, Don’t Walk, from Internet Explorer“, but asks “Can Your Site Survive FireFox?” with some good pointers on interoperability.
Archive | July, 2004
Installing and Tuning OpenOffice on Mac OS X
Marc Liyanage supplies this great page on “Installing and Tuning OpenOffice on Mac OS X.” I’m running OpenOffice.org cross-platform on Windows, Linux and OS X, and I’m working at finding the optimal configuration to produce sharp PDF files.
Joi Ito’s blog RSS feed bad? Radio thinks so…
I enjoy Joi Ito’s blog – he’s got his
finger on the pulse of the blogging companies, and shares an insightful
and different perspective on world and technical affairs. I am sure I
was reading his blog via my Radio Userland aggreagator, but spotted
articles on my NetNewsWire
aggregator on the Mac I knew I hadn’t seen. When I looked at my list of
subsciptions, his was missing. When I tried to add it, I got an error
“”. Feed Validator says his feed is fine. Must be a bug in Radio Userland….
Alex Feldstein syndicates his Visual FoxPro Tips and Tricks pages
[Alex Feldstein]
blogs: “My VFP Tips & Tricks have an RSS feed. My Visual FoxPro
Tips & Tricks pages which I have been maintaining for years, now
have an RSS feed…I publish them in English and Spanish. You can find
both feeds at the following links:[Spanish] [English]Enjoy!”
Very cool! I notice that Alex is also generating the list in ListGarden
as well. I’ve been very pleased with it, as well. I’ve got it installed
in three places: locally on a Windows workstation, in server mode on a
Linux intranet server and on my OS X iMac. All work well. Imagine that!
Cross-platform, compatible, standards-compliant Open Source. Remarkable.
Handy free reference cards for XML, XSL, emacs, Apache, MySQL and more…
[Andrew MacNeill – AKSEL Solutions] blogs “The Furrygoat Experience – Reference Cards. Steve Makofsky referenced this great reference cards site earlier last week. The XML and XSL stuff is very handy.” There’s also links for emacs, Apache 1.3, MySQL and many others…
Where can you ping that your weblog is updated?
One of the problems with the blogosphere, like the web in general, is
that a passing reference may fly by only once, and if you don’t grab it
then, it may be disappear forever. I’ve been searching for a reference
“someone” made to a website “someone” mentioned that would let you
submit a URL for your XML feed and it would, in turn, ping the major
news aggregators that there was something to read at your site. Google
turns up a disturbing number of *marketing* web sites that explain how
to juice the RSS search engines with your press releases {*shudder*},
but I’d like to think I’m actually posting news. I suppose they
probably do, too. So, anyone else catch that reference and hold onto it
better than I did?
Reminds me of one of the hundreds of incredible quotes from “Ocean’s Eleven” Laura and I saw last night:
Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I’ll never forget it.
Danny: That was our pleasure.
Rusty: I’d never been to Belize.
Capture a VNC session to Flash
What a clever idea. Capture video from another machine using the free Virtual Network Computing (VNC) remote terminal, and transcode it into a Flash swf
file. Looks like a clever way to capture interactive sessions for bug
documentation or training. (Update: Thanks to Andrew for correcting the
link!)
RSS lets the web reach its early promise, says Dickerson
Chad Dickerson writes in InfoWorld’s CTO Connection column:
“RSS growing pains.
These days, despite near-universal acclaim for the technology, I have a
real love/hate relationship with RSS. The love part of the relationship
derives from the profound changes in my information production and
consumption habits during the past year and a half. During that time,
Iâve been blogging and producing content with RSS. Whereas my e-mail
client, MS Word, and Google used to rule my desktop, I now find myself
using Bloglines, Feedster, and Technorati throughout the day and
writing to my internal and external blogs using ecto. Although the
plumbing is quite simple, Iâm still fascinated by all the background
pinging (as new Weblog content is posted) and the real-time indexing of
fresh content. When Dave Sifry at Technorati reports that the median
time from Weblog content posting until that content is available for
search on Technorati is seven minutes, I see a paradigm shifting.
Despite ãonlyä being XML, RSS is the driving force fulfilling the Webâs
original promise: making the Web useful in an exciting, real-time way.”
[InfoWorld: Application development]
Fox Wiki White Paper Directory
On the FoxForum Wiki, I’ve started a page called “White Paper Directory” listing web pages I’ve found with useful Visual FoxPro information in the form of speaker’s notes, reprinted articles and so forth. If you know of other resources, and I know there are many, please add to the page.
What a great application for RSS this could be! If each author were to generate and maintain their white paper directory using RSS (as Rick Strahl does in this RSS feed), a central aggregator could easily keep up with what’s changing and offer the ability to search. Wouldn’t this be a killer app?
Brad Silverberg interview
Former Windows Exec Talks Microsoft.
Veteran Microsoft watchers will remember Brad Silverberg, the former
Microsoft exec who championed Internet Explorer and Windows 95.
Professional services firm The Milestone Group is featuring an
interesting Q&A with Silverberg in the latest issue of The
Milestone Quarterly. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]