Friday, February 1, 2002

Everyone should have and use iPhoto. U.S. digital camera sales shoot up. The U.S. market for all but the lowest-end digital cameras grew by 30 percent last year, owing largely to a strong holiday push, according to a new report. [CNET News.com] 6:46:00 PM     Bryan's working on a very beautiful new theme. It's like a Japanese garden.  [Scripting News] 6:44:10 PM     New Radio pref: XML-RPC and SOAP. (Screen shot.)  [Scripting News] 6:43:49 PM     He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs. The Beatles sang about love, the Beach Boys crooned over the joys of surfing. Teacher John Swerdan has just cut an album about Macintosh computers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 6:43:29 PM     If you haven't done this yet, you can't know what I'm talking about. Sorry. But the good news is that lots of C programmers (Java too) are starting weblogs. Some of the things you believe today will seem silly in a few months if you stick with it. [Scripting News] 6:43:11 PM     Yet it is still mostly a respectful environment. The only way to get this is to practice. Put up a website and do your work there. And get ready to learn. It's not enough to put up a website and leave it there, as many C programmers do. Update it every day. Tell more and more about yourself. And then you'll find yourself scripting more, and leaving some old philosophy behind. [Scripting News] 6:42:54 PM     The Web is a view-source environment. From day one it was built on sharing what we know. If you like what someone else is doing, just get the source and have a look. [Scripting News] 6:42:38 PM     A note to C developers  [Scripting News] 6:42:18 PM     Dan Shafer on migrating from Mac OS 9 to X.  [Scripting News] 6:41:53 PM     Sjoerd posits: "Microsoft tries to make it so complex that you have to use their tools." Although I think that's often true, I don't think that's what was going on in the .NET hello world sample. Here's my theory. They had 2000 people working on this project, and they divided the tasks of developing various parts of the system, and the coordination (ie politics) betw the various organizations shows through in the design of the product. It's like a lot of company websites with confusing pointers at various levels of the site because different parts of the organization, at different times, had to get up some Web pages to protect their turf. My guess is that MS will hack at the details of that sample to make it simpler, as we are doing. It's going to be a competitive issue.  [Scripting News] 6:41:35 PM     Democrats race to catch up to GOP online. The Democratic National Committee relaunches its Web site and appoints its first technology adviser in an effort to match the Republican party's success in using the Internet to build its constituency. [CNET News.com] 6:41:12 PM     George Scriban: "Has Apple implemented some way for Apple Events to respond to SOAP or XML-RPC requests?"  [Scripting News] 6:40:57 PM     Sun ships Java tools for Web services. The company releases a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development tools, to allow software developers to use Java to build and run Web services. [CNET News.com] 6:40:42 PM

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