Coty's Radio Weblog

	Monday, March 17, 2003

Aliasing

The Alias Manager in Jaguar now tracks alias targets by path first, file ID second. In all previous versions of Mac OS, it was the other way around... [Daring Fireball]

I hadn't really thought about how the Alias Manager worked, so I appreciate this insight from John into how it worked and how it works now. I also support John's recommendation to Apple that replaced items be moved to the trash rather than deleted, which was what originally prompted his consideration of Alias Manager behavior.
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Haystack and Adenine (python + RDF)

It turns out that Haystack is implemented in Adenine, a python like language that knows how to deal with RDF. In fact, it appears that RDF can be used to add metadata to the Adenine bytecodes (I'm not totally clear on this because the document that I read was not quite finished). Adenine also knows how to talk to Java (It's implemented in Java -- so its like an RDF-aware Jython+++). Haystack's UI framework is implemented in Adenine, and appears to use RDF for describing widgets (The framework document is long, and I just paged through it quickly -- I'll sit down for a thorough read later this week).

I'm really curious to see the Haystack developer release when it comes out. Maybe by the end of April we'll see both a Haystack and Chandler developer release. [Ted Leung on the air]

"[A]n RDF-aware Jython+++" certainly sounds interesting. I'm really looking forward to being able to download something other than doc., though the doc. Ted describes sounds interesting enough.
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