Okay, under no circumstances will I miss PyCon DC 2004:
DC 2004 will be held March 24-26, 2004 in Washington, D.C. It will contain many of the features of DC 2003, including a development sprint and a similar cost structure. Registration will be open by October 1.
I flaked out of PyCon DC 2003, but I have to go this time. I’ll also try to whip up a few proposals, we’ll see how it goes.
After a long period of not integrating patches, I’ve released the newest version of mytop.
Great stuff for database navel-gazing, I’m checking it out now.
TheServerSide notes Macromedia’s RSS Untangle, part of the $99 Macromedia DevNet Volume 4.
It looks like there are lots of other goodies in that package, it might be worth checking out.
News.com notes that AT&T is now offering the Nokia 6800, the funky flipphone in the US.
This just in via Google News:
Networking software specialist Novell (Quote, Company Info), once a staunch proponent of proprietary software, continued its waltz into the open source sphere Monday with the announcement that it has acquired Ximian, the company behind the GNOME desktop for Linux.
At first glance, I’m having a hard time viewing this as a good thing, but one must remain positive. It’s a good sign that Miguel de Icaza will end up as CTO of Novell. Hopefully the positive energy will flow from Ximian to Novell, and the stagnance of Novell won’t flow back to Ximian.
I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed.
Chris Heilman pointed out the freeware release of Glider yesterday. I didn’t have any Macs booted up, so I grabbed the windows version of Glider 4.0.
It seems to run fine under XP once you get past the installer freaking out because my Windows version number is higher than 3.10.
Scoble‘s little flash mob gets some (virtual) ink in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
According to The Korean Herald (who got their info from IDG), the top handset makers are:
Here are a few things that I’ve found today:
Today is shaping up as a mostly offline day. I’m getting ready for a few days in Orlando later this week.
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.
Charles Miller presents the Placebo mini-pattern.
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.
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.
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.
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!
This is just a quick public service announcement:
Don’t let them fool you. The name on the front of the bank may have changed, but it’s still First Union.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming…