Matt Croydon::Postneo

Author: Matt Croydon

  • mytop 1.4

    Jeremy Zawodny:

    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.

  • RSS Untangle

    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.

  • Nokia 6800: In The Wild

    News.com notes that AT&T is now offering the Nokia 6800, the funky flipphone in the US.

  • Novell Acquires Ximian

    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.

  • Free Glider

    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.

  • Flash Mobs

    Scoble‘s little flash mob gets some (virtual) ink in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

  • Trackback

    Radio gets trackback.

  • Mobile Market Roundup

    According to The Korean Herald (who got their info from IDG), the top handset makers are:

    1. Nokia (40.9 million units, 34.6% global market share)
    2. Motorola (13.4% global market share)
    3. Samsung (12 million units, 10.1% global market share)
    4. Siemens (6.8% global market share)
    5. Sony Ericsson (5.7% global market share)

  • 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.

  • Wachovia: It’s Still First Union

    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…

  • Interview with Ralph Meijer

    Jabber.org interviews Ralph Meijer:

    Dutch programmer Ralph Meijer is the creator of the famous Jabber World Map and the lead coder on Idavoll, an implementation of the publish-subscribe protocol.

    The world needs even more cool Jabber stuff.  Make it so.