Monkinetic Weblog

Greg Peirce responds to the other day's rant:

This is too funny. [via "Scripting News"]

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You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there'tis!

You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there 'tis!

"Userland"'s Manila gets a flat discussion group view, somewhat like the Ultimate Bulletin Board. This is a common way of viewing threaded discussion, as it lets you see a whole thread on a page.

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You can now get Recent Redmonk as an RSS file. I've wanted this for while, and due to Conversant's flexibility, there 'tis!

So Jodi says, "I can't even go to a meeting without my computer!"

For a while I've wanted to get RSS running on this site. Conversant doesn't generate RSS natively, but that's no real limitation. Through the power of an extraordinary array of templates, and some query creativity, we present:

Brent Simmons, of Userland Software, has found the anti-Brent weblog - as in the weblogs he considers most opposite to his own. He disagrees with everything on it. I wonder which one it is?

FindApps.com is a service that lists rental (and free) [web?] applications. I recommended "Conversant".

Byte's Jon Udell mentions "Conversant" in his latest column, on the subject of web systems that tie together http, email, and nntp. Perhaps more than Jon realizes, Conversant fulfills his vision.

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One app I'm eagerly awaiting on "Mac OS X" is WriteUp, from Anderson Financial Systems. WriteUp is an excellent word processor, and has been available on just about every iteration of NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Rhapsody; there should be a version for Mac OS X available by the end of October, as evidenced here.

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One app I'm eagerly awaiting on "Mac OS X" is WriteUp, from Anderson Financial Systems. WriteUp is an excellent word processor, and has been available on just about every iteration of NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Rhapsody; there should be a version for Mac OS X available by the end of October, as evidenced here.

[via "Slashdot"] This robot is fully programmable, can detect light, sound, obstacles, and more. "Nate" should see this.

OS-X FAQ has a pointer to a great article on how to get Tomcat (the reference implementation for the 1.2 JSP/Servlet spec) running under "Mac OS X".

One app I'm eagerly awaiting on "Mac OS X" is WriteUp, from Anderson Financial Systems. WriteUp is an excellent word processor, and has been available on just about every iteration of NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Rhapsody; there should be a version for Mac OS X available by the end of October, as evidenced here.

Watching High Fidelity today. I love John Cusack - intelligent, funny, occasionally depressing. Interesting mumble.

Creating Web Services with PHP using XML-RPC.

Nothing to do but check it out. Jerks. (With an appearance by Eric Cartman. )

Well, after using "Mac OS X" for over a week now, I can say that some things must change about the Dock. I love the Dock. I do, really, but trying to click on an icon toward the edge of the screen while it scoots away from you - OFF THE SCREEN - is only fun the first coupla times.