From Daring Fireball comes news of a bevy of command line utilities for OS X. These include command line PHP - one of the most useful little languages I've run across, and a appswitch utility... once I get back from the Moot I've gotta get some of these.
11:01:32 PM     comment []

The father of the relational database has dropped normal form ... his books and ideas were not only groundbreaking and interesting, they were useful.

Edgar Codd, database theorist, dies at 79. The mathematician laid the theoretical foundation for the standard method by which information is organized in and retrieved from computers.
The New York Times [CNET News.com]
11:13:14 AM     comment []