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Updated: 1/15/02; 6:34:54 PM.

Monday, December 03, 2001

Hey there's a cool new Vancouver weblog!
11:58:31 PM

Official release of PyBlogger and PyManila - command line tools to blog to Blogger and Manila websites, hmm i wonder how difficult it would be to adapt this to Radio Userland blogs!
11:56:40 PM

A Users Guide to URL Rewriting with the Apache Webserver - a guide with practical examples!
11:28:32 PM

From macosxhints.com discussion on How to Move the Users folder to a new partition: To copy everything including the resource forks:
ditto -v -rsrcFork /source /destination/
11:21:26 PM

XML Cover Pages: December 03, 2001] Apache Cocoon XML Publishing Framework 2.0 Issued as a Stable Release.

A posting from Carsten Ziegeler announces Apache Cocoon version 2.0 as the "first stable release of the 'next generation' of Apache Cocoon. This 2.0 release of the Cocoon XML publishing framework represents a complete rewrite of the first generation, removing all of the design constraints that emerged during almost three years of worldwide use. This new release is considered stable in both implementation and on the API it provides." Cocoon is an XML publishing framework that "allows you to define XML documents and transformations to be applied on them, and to eventually generate a presentation format of your choice in HTML, PDF, SVG, etc. Cocoon relies on a pipeline model: an XML document is pushed through a pipeline that exists in several transformation steps of your document. Every pipeline begins with a generator, continues with zero or more transformers, and ends with a serializer. This can be compared to the 'servlet-chaining' concept of a servlet engine."
11:20:13 PM

Via Doc's excellent Linux for Suits Archive: October 18 — The Sad Story of AM Stereo: "Is there a real risk that the Net we know and love--and Linux along with it--will become as marginal and irrelevant as AM stereo? I used to think it couldn't happen. Now I'm not so sure. Making and getting technology-squeezing laws passed has proven to be way too easy for the Entertainment cartels. " - I hope that Linux, Mac OS X and other alternative technologies live long and prosper!
7:10:36 PM

Bruce Sterling on Geeks and Spooks [Slashdot] - "In conclusion, I must say that although I am by no means a happy man this season, I think that in five or six years, we may look back at this time of confusion and sorrow with some sense of real satisfaction. The President was right to say that our society had been challenged by a serious act of terror, and it's a genuine and sober challenge, and we could blow it. It isn't written on tablets of gold that we pampered Yankee mall rats are destined to rule the universe. There are times in life when people are required to measure up and show some mettle. " - interesting rant from Sterling!
5:26:32 PM

The story of Cisco: a startup's true tale
2:38:41 PM

According to MacEdition, the SlashCode system at the heart of MacSlash, Slashdot, etc. is not HTML or CSS compliant but people use it anyway because they don't want to program their own from scratch.
2:34:23 PM

eLine Technologies is a Vancouver software house specializing in e-commerce back ends, web programming and Mac software. They recently released VideoClix which enables video hotspots (clickable items).
2:28:48 PM

Mireth Technology is a Vancouver based Mac Software house who most notable product is a VCD player for the Mac.
2:19:29 PM

Dan Gilmor predicts the demise of Dell when the XBox becomes more than a gaming console - Let's check back in late 2006 to say if Dan is right. I hope he isn't!
1:32:10 PM