Day: October 17, 2002

I wonder if I’m included in the fifteen or so mySubscriptions sources in the RSS Explorer Tool beta or if the script is smart enough to check for your own file.  I’ll assume the latter until I find out otherwise.  🙂

Dave Winer:

A milestone for Uncle Davey today. I released my first beta since May. It’s a brand new piece of software, written with absolutely no cigarettes. Not one. My secret is to keep a jar of Planter’s unsalted peanuts in the kitchen. Whenever I need to pause and think before implementing something I get up and get a handful of peanuts. The little walk is important for some reason. When I come back I eat the peanuts one at a time. It takes about the same amount of time as a cigarette. I used to smoke to set a pace. Now the getting up and peanut eating does the job. Anyway, I’ll link to the beta tomorrow, it’s the RSS Explorer Tool. It’s going to build a new kind of community, and should get more exposure for feeds that aren’t in the top 100.

The next Real Time & Embedded Computing Conference will be in Tysons Corner on October 31.  I went to one in Maryland a few months ago, and while there were a lot of sales pitches, there was also quite a bit of good info for free.  There are several sessions on embedded Linux, embedded Windows XP, and some other stuff.  I probably won’t be able to make it, but if you’re in the area, it’s free.

Samba 2.2.6 Released

Release Notes indicate that it is mostly a bugfix.

This is the latest stable release of Samba and the last planned release of the Samba 2.2. branch. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes.

Those crazy kids are also working on a 3.0 version, which is currently in the alpha stage.

I love the Samba logo and I use Samba everyday.  I should really order a t-shirt.

Dave Winer: Beta: RSS Explorer Tool.

From the RSS Explorer page you can view lists of subscriptions from other Radio users. Each channel or “feed” has a checkbox to the left of its name. If it’s checked, you’re already subscribed. You can choose to subscribe or unsubscribe by clicking on the Subscribe button to the right. To see a different list, choose a name from the popup menu, below, and click on the View button. [via Radio Dev]

ITWorld:

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said Thursday will add two seats to its board of directors, a move that may help heal a rift between the group and Sun Microsystems Inc.

Wired News:

Conference organizer IDG World Expo gleefully announced on Thursday that Macworld Expo is returning to Boston, its traditional home. But Apple rained on the parade, saying it will not be taking part.

I wonder how this will impact their product release cycles.  I have gone to a few satellite downlinks from MWNY, and they seem to have at least some new products for MWNY and MWSF.

Developer.Apple.Com: Using SOAP with PHP. [via Brent Simmons]

OnJava has an article about WSIL (Web Service Inspection Language) which generated some buzz from the sources I read via RSS.