Tuesday, March 12, 2002

New feature: Automatically Generated Links. This is the feature Julian Bond has been patiently waiting for.  [Scripting News] 9:05:44 PM     Gary Secondino takes me up on the OPML Coffee Mug puzzle. Pretty close, except it's simpler, but it can do all the things you say, and more.   [Scripting News] 9:04:38 PM     Building with Ant: Introduction. Earthweb: “The more interesting your application becomes, the more complicated your build process. In this article, I will sketch out a framework for how to use simple tools (like Ant and JUnit) and a simple directory structure to avoid many of the common growing pains of application development.” [ranchero.com] 9:03:11 PM     User-Agents page. I was curious about what browsers were hitting my site, so I started recording user-agents. Check out all the Radio UserLand hits. [ranchero.com] 9:01:05 PM     Quick notes with regard to my Radio projects: Art can now deliver referer "radar" reports. I want to incorporate code updates (perhaps via another tool; see below) and Formz for prefs handling before I ship the next version. HackMaster might well become subsumed into a general tool management tool providing services needed by other tools and a common interface to administer those services along with the tools using them. Code freshening is the most obvious example -- why have a copy of the code per tool? Patch application -- the original HackMaster application -- is another, and Eric's patch tool will be vital. Other services might include tool dependency management (what if your tool requires Formz?). Throat has a whole list of interesting To Do items to attach to it, topmost of which is to blog about the others. All these depend on me being able to dedicate a few sequential weekends to the tasks at hand, arguably unlikely until after the wedding. [Garth Kidd: Deadly Bloody Serious about Radio UserLand] 8:59:45 PM     Well, it is off to a good start. OpenLink sent me new versions of their OSX ODBC stuff while I was out of town and I installed it and gave it a whirl this afternoon. It worked perfectly! Now all I really have to do is modify some of the init scripts and we are ready to roll tri-platform. Fun fun. [Stephen Tallent's Radio Weblog] 8:57:50 PM     John Robb says of the unreleased software behind the OPML coffee mug. "This is the first product I have ever used that decreased the flow to my e-mail inbox by over 100 items a day." We've been eating this dogfood at UserLand since November, and it totally revolutionized the company. We couldn't have shipped Radio 8 without it.  [Scripting News] 8:56:25 PM     A Busy Writer's Guide to Radio Renderers by Mark Woods. Nice stuff and an example of next-level documentation .... beyond mine, that is. Just another peek at some of the horsepower under the hood. [Russ Lipton Documents Radio] 8:55:14 PM

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