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

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.

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.

"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:

"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.

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

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.

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

I've added a CMS category to the weblog here. Shortly I'll go back and change all the CMS-related entries to the right label.

From the CMS LIst: This article by one of Digital Creations' staff highlights some of the common types of portal sites and their content management needs. Focused on Zope's CMF, but can easily be abstracted on-the-fly to CMSes in general.

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

This should prove fun.

Evolt on CMSes.

Check it out!

"This is our system. We designed it, we built it, and we use it more than you do. If there are some features you think might be missing, if the system isn't as effective as you think it could be, TOUGH! Give it back, we don't need you. See Figure 1."