Monkinetic Weblog

I recently had 22 apps running on my newly Mac-OSX-ized G3/450, including Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, M$ Outlook Exchange client, 2 browsers, Terminal, iTunes (ripping CDs), Mail...

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I've been sick the last two days, so I've been reading a couple great books. Right now I'm in the middle of "Open Source Development with CVS", and I'll soon be getting back into the Design Patterns book.

"Jim" has moved to San Fransisco, after taking a job at netstruxr. He's been apartment hunting, and has his first (iTools-based) photo album from SF up online.

MacNN is reporting that file sharing by Napster's users is down 60% already. The RIAA is congratulating its smug self today.

I'm not sure why it's today, but after hearing on the news lately about the recent school shooting in NY, my mind goes back to a day in December, 1988, at a small christian school in Virginia Beach, VA - Atlantic Shores Christian. On that day in December a young man killed one teacher execution-style, shot another teacher, tried to shoot a third, and broke into a mobile trailer classroom where 20-25 students were huddled at one end after seeing him coming and locking the door.

At work we're beginning to integrate CVS and Ant into our development process. We've never used real source control on our websites - it's shown. A build process for a website may seem a bit overkill, but I think it'll pay off in the long run. These sites are growing.

"Jim" Roepcke has released version 1.0b4 of his XML-RPC for WebObjects code. It's based on Hannes Wallnoeffer's great XML-RPC for Java code.

Dave writes:

"One developer who plans to attend the meeting.. said Microsoft is looking to extend the capabilities of IM as a standalone application and turn it into a software infrastructure that can be used to build many types of applications." Gotta get some of that

This is a sweeeeeet portable.

Oh, I know someone out there's gonna HATE this. But man, it's priceless.

From the page source on Megnut.com:

http://www.omnigroup.com/OldLook/MailArchive/WebObjects/1998/4715.html

"Seth" and gang at Macrobyte have made the Mail-To-Blog feature even better! You can now email plain-text into your Conversant site and have it treated as HTML, rather than having to send it as HTML mail. This was important as Outlook Express and other emailers usually don't let you add links, and will escape the code if you type the html directly into the email when you're in HTML mode.

BlackSmith has what appears to be a really cool outline-style component. Now if I could only find a download link...

Last night I had a real breakthrough in my study of WebObjects. Unfortunately, I don't have the WO 4.01 databases, so I haven't been able to do some of the exercises in the Programming WebObjects course I'm doing. Instead, I downloaded FrontBase and installed it, created my own model, and completed the exercise.

"Jim", in Victoria BC, and a bunch of Seattle-ites, survive a 7.0 earthquake epicentered in Seattle. YIKES!