Friday, February 15, 2002

Apple in IT c|net: Apple: Don't flub it again [MacNN] This is a real question for Apple these days. They're so focused on the home market that corporate IT seems to be getting nothing. In the early 90s, Mac OS prior to X was like a complete alien being. I know from first hand experience that I and anyone else involved in sys admin work didn't want Apple systems anywhere near our networks. They used different everything, even the files couldn't be easily moved around. Blah, don't want them, don't need them. The modern Mac and Mac OS X is a whole new ball game. It's not Mac OS, it's UNIX. It's not alien anymore, and in fact connects far better to various systems then even Windows does. You can drop it into a Windows network, or a linux network, or a Solaris network and it will mostly behave now. I say mostly, because it has a very bad habit of writing .DS_Store files to mounts. But that's a minor issue compared to the Mac of old. It might be another year or two, but I think we'll see Apple starting to put some of the missing pieces into place. I don't for an instant think it will displace Microsoft on the corporate desktop, but I do believe it will become an increasingly viable alternative. Especially in the more technical areas of a company, a place incidentally, that would have never seen Macs in the past. 10:28:04 PM     Billion Dollar Bugs. Your bugs, design flaws, and security holes could cost your customers billions of dollars. If the business environment ever changed so that software vendors were liable for defective products just like any other vendor, your company could be bankrupted by the lawsuits. [Advogato] It's too bad customers have proven time and time again that they're not willing to pay for bug free software. Regardless of whether the price is time or dollars. 9:46:24 PM     The New Browser Wars The battle field - Xindice Browsers. Dawid Weiss today announced YAB (Yet Another Browser). This looks just like Xindice Browser by Alexander Schatten, but has all new code under the skin. Dawid says, "the design is we think more flexible and will allow cool add-ins in the future" Meanwhile, Alexander has posted version 0.65 of Xindice Browser. Changes include. - some bugfixes - saving of current document - saving of multiple (selected) documents into each document into one file all selected into one file - saving of XPath query results - modification of the .sh file (should really work now?!) - HTML viewing of content, 6:30:42 PM

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Resume:

Software:

Xindice (Formally dbXML)

Xindice XML-RPC Interface

Xindice HTTP Interface

XML:DB API Reference Implementation

Jive XML Database Port

FreeDB CD Database to XML Data Generator

Writing:

Introduction to Native XML Databases (xml.com)

Introduction to dbXML (xml.com)

An Introduction to the XML:DB API (xml.com)

Xindice Users Guide

Xindice Developers Guide

Xindice Administrators Guide

XML:DB API Specification

XML:DB API Use Cases

XUpdate Use Cases

ICEPick Peer to Peer Personalization

Presentations:

Native XML Databases Why Bother?
(HTML) (Powerpoint)