Rael has implemented an idea by Steven Johnson.
Give it a whirl (you’ll need a Google Web API developer’s key) or download the source for your mutating and spindling pleasure.
From a later post:
Steven Johnson has a 0.34% googleshare of “Emergence”
Slime Mold has a 0.04% googleshare of “Emergence”
I think this fits in the category of “proof of concept” web services application, but it’s cool nonetheless.
Story at ZDNet: Cash-strapped, and looking for new options, IT managers are warming to open-source content management products. Customizable and free, open-source is becoming serious competition to the “big iron” CMS vendors like Interwoven and Vignette.
Slashdot reports that SVG 1.1 is out as a recomendation, as well as Mobile SVG.
I’ve got the basics of weblog editing in NetNewsWire pro working—I’ve been using a Manila site initially, since Manila supports both the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs.
Great stuff, Brent. Another reason I wish that I had a box running OSX…
It’s a rather undisputed fact that Windows is the top operating system around (as far as numbers of user go). Most people will also agree that MacOS is the in a distant second, and recently Linux has been gaining MacOS to gain the third place spot and a shot a second. For the number four desktop operating system, the choice isn’t very clear. Story at Junetech.com
A new article on Java World does a good job covering the XML and Web Services support provided by the J2EE 1.4 specification (currently in proposed final draft 2 stage). “Developers frustrated by the observation that J2EE seems to grow more complicated with every revision will appreciate the simplicity and familiarity of J2EE 1.4’s Web services programming model.”
Incorporating Rendezvous into Your Cocoa Applications, Part 2 by Mike Beam is now online at O’Reillynet.
Today we’ll build the Rendezvous service publisher and browser, and in the next column I’ll show you how to give the application the ability to talk to other instances of the application on a network.
OpenBSD Journal has a roundup of webmail solutions, including Squirrelmail, IMP, Aeromail, and TWIG.
While Web services’ dynamic nature will make management a higher priority than some client/server technologies, the focus on managing solely the Web service layer will invite some pioneers into the management market. Gartner says Web services brokers and network vendors will provide most of the early management tools as the need grows and the market matures.