Tuesday, 15 October 2002

Book Idea. New idea for a book, suggested by a cow orker: Pair Programming with Tyler Durden [The Fishbowl] yes 11:53:50 PM

Dark Side of the Moon Join the Dark Side. Anthony Eden writes: I am even considering taking the drastic measures of learning Objective-C and starting to program native OS X apps! Drink the kool-aid, Anthony. Even though I don't get the chance to do it very often, having very little in the way of copious spare time to play with things, I really, really enjoy Cocoa programming. There's something about the way the GUI stuff all fits together that is a pleasure to work with. [The Fishbowl] What is it with this group? I was thinking that about a week ago. I was reading the online objective-c tutorials and everything. Hmmm. Almost time for osx.blogs? 11:48:48 PM

RE: Googling your email. Tired of searching through all of your mail just to find one particular message? Jon Udell looks at ZOË, software that can, in essence, Google your email.Written in Java, ZOË proxies your mail traffic and builds usefulsearch and navigation mechanisms. [O'Reilly Network Mac DevCenter] [ Jon's Radio ] So I finally got around to reading this, and what immediately springs to mind is that we need a framework for building web-based client-side apps with an indexing service running and available for multiple apps to use... Zoe could use it, a blog aggregator could use it, you could proxy IM sessions through it, it could index your local files... Has anyone taken a close look at the Zoe licensing? It apears to be based on the Apple Public Source License, but I'm not sure what that means... It would be a shame if something this cool couldn't be pulled into other cool projects. Edited with Composite [Jason Carreira] Yes, the future is going to consist of lots of applications communicating via artifacts that consist of web pages, email and news messages, and instant messaging. Hell, if you want pr0n there is tonnes of stuff on ircbots. I personally dislike APSL. See my previous rant "Apple Public Software License Issues" for a hint as to why. Not that I dismiss the right of the ZOE guys (and gals :-) to do what they are doing. I firmly stand by the right of anyone to release their IP under any license they choose. For me it is a variant of freedom of speech - i will defend your right to say what ever you want to say, even if I strongly disagree with what you are saying. 11:39:58 PM

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