Al, check these out... AirPort Base Station Antennas. "I was inspired by MacInTouch reader's comments to add a WaveLAN Range Extender to my Airport Base Station. After completing this installation myself, I thought others might find my experiences and advise useful. I'm not a hardware engineer, so follow these at your own risk." and ExtendaPort - Extending AirPort's Range [I have the same complaint, btw. G4's can see a base station two flights above and at the other end of the house. TiBook makes crappy contact one floor away on the same side (well, I have a second node but I had to move it to create solid contact.)] *
Sheila: "I'm still here, doing fine, keeping busy."
XML.com: Second Generation Web Services. [There's a "Stop Using SOAP" thread on the Ruby-Talk list based on the IBM/Microsoft patent threat. The REST folks are leaping into the fray... no mention of XML-RPC.]
[How is REST different from the "Apache" model that Dave talks about? All it seems to be (to me) is uninventing SOAP and XML-RPC. Am I missing something? Since Amazon did a mailing today, and the XML format they supply is back in the air, isn't this REST like? At the moment I don't see what benefit an RPC interface would provide considering what they supply.] *
Developers dig into Google's toolbox. "Nelson Minar, lead software engineer on Google's API project, said that while it's too early to tell what kinds of applications will evolve out of the experiment, interest is high. He said that after only four days, 10,000 developers signed up to use the API service. In addition, he said that 15 or 20 libraries for various programming languages have been created."
Mark. "Sorry it took so long to respond, Daniel; I was busy writing software." [Heh. Thanks. But here's the thing. While I haven't tried to install Python under OS X, I haven't found the installation of tools like this pleasant in the past. Which means it can be hard to share. I believe it is why so many folks who write software in Python, Perl, Ruby etc. start out with "Install version blah of whatever (it'll only run in unstable version blah or later). Then the next item you download says requires x, y, and z in the following versions...
There's so much software written for these languages, but it seems that everyone from these worlds assumes that I have already installed and understand all about this stuff. Even DiveIntoPython does this... (well, it's a book. and you have start somewhere, but everyone teaches the language and spends no time talking about where to put files you create, where files are put (by the installer) etc. Everyone expects you to read the source. I can't believe this practice continues in 2002...)
Anyway, I'm working in this area later today, so hopefully I'll be able to try out your stuff.
As for the importance of the future, that's great. And it's great when you can fix a bug and keep moving whereas otherwise it's just frustration. Believe me I know all about this. Of course, the nature of this type of software prevents you from performing integration testing. That's too bad.
Lastly, is the Python IDE that you can recommend for OS X?]
Mark responds: How to install Python [Thanks Mark! (You might want to update the OS X link off of DiveIntoPython...]
O'Reilly Network: Cocoa for your Python?. [Al, points me to this resource.]
Robert Urich, an Emmy-winning actor best known for his starring roles in "Soap," "Vega$" and "Spenser: For Hire,'' died today in Los Angeles. [I went to school with his nephew, Christian Urich. My condelences to him and his family.]
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