Joel: "Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long. Don't get too hung up on your version 1 and don't think, for a minute, that you have any hope of reaching large markets with your first version. Good software, like wine, takes time." Excellent read if you are in the business of creating software, or want to be.

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Joel: "Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long. Don't get too hung up on your version 1 and don't think, for a minute, that you have any hope of reaching large markets with your first version. Good software, like wine, takes time." Excellent read if you are in the business of creating software, or want to be.

Brent points to TrekToday's Star Trek: Enterprise news roundup. Some really cool, and funny, stuff in here.

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Joel: "Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long. Don't get too hung up on your version 1 and don't think, for a minute, that you have any hope of reaching large markets with your first version. Good software, like wine, takes time." Excellent read if you are in the business of creating software, or want to be.

Diskless Linux Kiosks. Cool article by ex-Netscaper Jamie Zawinski about how he created diskless kiosks for the DNA Lounge. Very clever.

Wednesday, Sept 26! As Jim would say, "Drool factor 5!!!"

Halcyon Software is bringing .NET to Mac OS X. They are actually converting Microsoft's Intermediate Language (like Java's bytecodes) to Java .class files or source code, and will be providing the complete ASP.NET (including ADO.NET and WebForms) later this year.

" Halcyon is currently working with selected customers on deploying ASP.NET projects to the OS X environment. It expects to move into a formal Beta in October 2001." Cooool.

Mac OS X 10.1 debuts at Macworld Expo today. From MacNN:

* Jobs launched Internet Explorer in OS X 10.1, and it took only one bounce to appear on the screen. He also showed the resizing and minimizing were enhanced dramatically in terms of performance.

Memora is bringing last-yard type personal servers to Mac OS X. Interesting.

Brent Simmons posts his thoughts on Star Trek series V - Enterprise. He's coming from the same angle I am. I'm so excited about this, I'm working on reviving an old tradition among my friends of getting together weekly to watch Star Trek.

Jabber is rocking our office world right now. We downloaded the server, and got one up and running (in short order really) on a local Linux box.

This is the layout for you, Mr. Client.

Jodi and I have decided to take a week-long roadtrip next week (actually starting this friday evening) to Niagara Falls, NY, and Toronto, Ontario. We're getting tips on seeing Canada from my only Canadian friend, Jim. (Thanks Jim!)

But whose is it? Doc Searls with more of his usual piercing analysis.

Then you must know the Jargon File.

Wittenspeak:

"OPP n.

Other People's Perl, which is generally unreadable and thus should be avoided at all costs. Example: "I'm not down with OPP."

Recent personal example: trying to understand the inner werkings of Bugzilla.

One Man's jargonfile: Leonardonics, a glossary of micro-cultural references.

Reading an anthropological exposition of someone's micro-culture always puts me in a strange mood.

I'm downloading Mozilla onto my wife's Powerbook G3. She's been using Netscape 4.7, and I'm just hoping that Moz plays nice with her preferences. After browsing on her machine for a while I forgot how badly NS 4.7 renders some sites.

I'm working on a project where I've been introduced for the first time to the "proper" methods of software design, and am being chained (well, ok, metaphorically) to my desk to write Use Case Scenarios. I have to tell you, there are few tasks more boring than writing Use Case Scenarios. <yawn>. The fact that i got up at 5:30 this a.m. and was in the office at 6:45 a.m. does not help.