Tuesday, September 24, 2002

I found something new in Ant today. The exec task has an outputproperty attribute which allows you to run a command and have the result be put into the property. That's very helpful when trying to use existing Makefile's from inside of Ant. 11:21:49 PM

commons-sql is cool... I think... I guess?. James says commons-sql is ready for use. Nifty. I like the idea, but from reading the site I still don't quite get it. James, perhaps a very simple overview of what commons-sql does, and where it's useful is needed for the front page, rather than a paragraph loaded with other Jakarta project names and JavaDoc links? [rebelutionary] Ah, Mike has found the Jakarta secret for project websites, just use lots of other Jakarta projects in the descriptions.. 10:44:26 PM

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.1b1. NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.1b1 has been posted. (I created a new page for betas, so the main page can always point to the current release version.) The important change in this version is that the clipboard formats for RSS sources and RSS items have been cleaned up and documented. Sample code is provided for both Carbon and Cocoa. The idea is so that other apps can work with NetNewsWire via copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop. Of course, this isn’t the final step in getting apps to work together, but it’s an important step. [inessential.com] I wonder if the clipboard can be accessed from the Cocoa Java libraries. I think I'm going to try and see if that works.. 10:39:24 PM

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