Matt Croydon::Postneo

Month: August 2003

  • Quick Roundup

    Here are a few things that I’ve found today:

    • CompUSA has a bunch of coupons and stuff that you can print and have fun with.
    • ModelingFramework looks interesting: “The Modeling framework intends to fill the gap between the python object world and relational databases. It relies on a model, based on Entity-Relationship Modelling, that describes how the two worlds map to each other. From your design of such a model, the database’s schema and corresponding python classes are automatically generated. Thus, once you have designed how your classes should be stored in the RDBMS, you can focus on the real challenges – the logic of your business objects – while remaining in the object-oriented world of those objects and never having to worry about the SQL and RDBMS persistence layer below.”
    • Beware of the Miami worm.

  • Offline: Packing

    Today is shaping up as a mostly offline day.  I’m getting ready for a few days in Orlando later this week.

  • ZigBee: Personal Area Network

    Via Slashdot, it looks like we should be tracking another wireless technology: ZigBee, aka 802.15 aka Personal Area Network.

    It looks like it is lower bandwidth (<1Mbps) but has much lower power requirements.

    “Hey man, do your new sneakers have ZigBee?”

  • Rendezvous/Zeroconf: On More Platforms

    Ted Leung points out Howl, a Zeroconf/Rendezvous implementation for Windows and Linux/BSD:

    Now the rest of us who have been hearing about the MacOS X Rendezvous Bonanza have a chance to get in on the action. The folks at Swampwolf have produced howl an open source Rendezvous/ZeroConf library that works on Windows and Linux. They’ve release the source on SourceForge under the BSD license.

  • Placebo

    Charles Miller presents the Placebo mini-pattern.

  • Typepad: Go For Launch

    Typepad is set to roll out a public preview release on Monday.  They’ve also released their pricing and features in three flavours: Basic ($4.95/mo) Plus ($8.95/mo) and Pro ($14.95/mo), which seems quite reasonable.  The bang/buck ratio is in your favor.

    If you’re thinking about signing up on monday, let me know and I can swing you a 20% discount.

    A lot of work has gone into making Typepad rock.

  • Entrenched SMTP

    If the IPv6 adoption rate is as abysmal as it appears to be, how are you going to get millions of server to switch away from SMTP?

    Just a thought.

  • Jython 2.2 Alpha

    Sean McGrath, via James Robertson:

    Jython, lest you do not know of it, is the most compelling weapon the Java platform has for its survival into the 21st century:-) Jython 2.2 alpha release now available.

    Also see James’ entry for a minirant on JVMs.

  • Happy Birthday Netcraft Survey

    Netcraft:

    The Netcraft Webserver Survey is 8 years old this month. Happy Birthday!

    The first Web Server Survey ran in August 1995 and found 18,957 sites. NCSA and CERN were the leading web servers of the day, in front of Netscape which had recently IPO’d, and the Apache project which started a few months earlier in March 1995. Microsoft-IIS, HTTP/1.1 hosting and domain name registrars were not then on the horizon.

    It’s a vastly different landscape today, and thanks for keeping track of it, Netcraft!

  • CheckRDF

    Via freshmeat, CheckRDF is a program written in Haskell for downloading and viewing RSS1.0/RDF feeds.