:: grepninjalog ::

:: Friday, April 28, 2000 ::

The FPC-Lazarus Project is creating class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi (licensed under the LGPL).

:: linuxian 4/28/2000 11:13:36 AM [+] ::

XDBM, by Bowerbird Computing, is an embedded XML Database Manager.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 05:26:50 PM [+] ::

Inevitable, but so quickly? See the new SOAP Weblog.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 05:16:20 PM [+] ::

Here's the SOAP specification. I'm not sure what I think of this yet.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 05:15:20 PM [+] ::

Read this again -- even if you haven't read it yet: Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 05:08:26 PM [+] ::

This looks like an interesting article on OpenSource theory: Setting Up Shop.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 04:53:11 PM [+] ::

BugNet, The World's Leading Provider of Software Bug Fixes.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 04:11:02 PM [+] ::

CRC Press has generously given permission to make all chapters of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography available for free download, subject to the terms of this copyright notice. The book site also has a great related Useful links page.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 01:09:20 PM [+] ::

JPL has a technical reports server at http://jpltrs.jpl.nasa.gov/.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 01:08:27 PM [+] ::

BeOpen.com: The Open Source Applications Portal describes itself as follows (in its "About Us" page)

BeOpen.com develops online communities of Open Source application users, developers and interested parties through our network of portal websites. The Company also offers support and custom development for specific Open Source applications to major corporations and governmental entities.

:: linuxian 4/27/2000 09:24:39 AM [+] ::

The Open Source Cooperative Categorical Search Engine -- Opilio Announced. Developed in Frontier. This is in the fold of Dave Winer's Userland.com venture (also see Scripting News, EditThisPage.com, Weblogs.com, My.Userland.Com, etc.

:: linuxian 4/26/2000 12:06:16 PM [+] ::

Perhaps the first, if not only, of its kind: PS-HTTPD - a webserver written in Postscript!.

:: linuxian 4/26/2000 10:25:03 AM [+] ::

Validate your HTML and XHTML with the free W3C HTML Validation Service.

There are other validators. I mostly use Dave Raggett's HTML Tidy, which is included in two free editors I use (HTML-Kit and Eversoft 1stPage2000).

:: linuxian 4/26/2000 09:50:44 AM [+] ::

Linux 101: Use tar files to customize application installations

:: linuxian 4/25/2000 08:58:15 AM [+] ::

xiph.org: Ogg Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel.

:: linuxian 4/24/2000 02:53:06 PM [+] ::

Here's an article on the GIF controversy: Time to Dump the GIF.

:: linuxian 4/21/2000 09:34:46 AM [+] ::

So, again, here is the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site. Time to convert!

:: linuxian 4/21/2000 09:32:03 AM [+] ::

Well, it certainly looks like it is time to Burn All GIFs. Unisys appears to be getting beastly about its GIF patent. They have a right to do that but "we," the computing and Internet communities, have the right to drop their technology like the hot potato it is.

:: linuxian 4/21/2000 09:13:56 AM [+] ::

Cdrom.com has a good site on PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site.

:: linuxian 4/20/2000 11:32:17 AM [+] ::

Les Tyrrell's Squeak Wiki at UIUC - Squeak: An Open Smalltalk for the New World Order.

:: linuxian 4/20/2000 11:12:30 AM [+] ::

A rather interesting Squeak project: Squeak:The Visible Squeak.

:: linuxian 4/20/2000 11:02:54 AM [+] ::

Here is a link to some Linux/Unix-only Squeak VM work - OSProcess.

:: linuxian 4/20/2000 09:01:15 AM [+] ::

Looks like Bruce Perens has a new news and interaction site -- TECHNOCRAT.NET. Perens is one of the big mouths behind the OpenSource as meme movement.

:: linuxian 4/19/2000 11:50:23 AM [+] ::

Here is the main site for obtaining details on The Jabber XML Protocol.

:: linuxian 4/18/2000 04:46:25 PM [+] ::

Mark Guzdial's draft for the coming Squeak book: Chapters For Review.

:: linuxian 4/18/2000 11:42:50 AM [+] ::

Alas! Finally! I got the magic incantation to view a list of modules in CVS!

cvs co -c

I like Linux but sometimes it's *way* too hard to find these little incantations.

:: linuxian 4/18/2000 11:14:10 AM [+] ::

The osOpinion site has a great article on Jabber: osOpinion: The New Face of Instant Messaging..

:: linuxian 4/18/2000 10:34:49 AM [+] ::

Old Space a place to die? -- A John McIntosh article (Garbage Collecting III).

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 01:48:34 PM [+] ::

new: Where's the Beef? -- A John McIntosh article (Garbage Collecting II).

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 01:12:02 PM [+] ::

Controlling VisualWorks NewSpace -- A John McIntosh article (Garbage Collecting I).

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 01:09:17 PM [+] ::

Fileboss - check this out (at leisure).

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 01:04:48 PM [+] ::

Article: Internet Appliance Network acquires MyInternetDesktop.com to add virtual desktop functionality to Internet devices.

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 11:11:15 AM [+] ::

Internet Appliance Network (IAN) - now promoting MyInternetDesktop.com.

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 11:08:59 AM [+] ::

Virginconnect - Internet appliance scheme -- the first 10,000 are "free!"

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 11:07:33 AM [+] ::

MyInternetDesktop.com - The applications you need. - Any where. Any time. Any device. - Wave of the future?

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 11:03:43 AM [+] ::

MSDN Online: XML Developer Center

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 10:53:53 AM [+] ::

Extensible Markup Language (XML) - This is w3.org's main center for XML activity. This is probably *the* main XML site.

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 10:48:07 AM [+] ::

xmlTree - The only directory of XML content on the Web

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 10:46:34 AM [+] ::

XML Zone

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 10:46:08 AM [+] ::

Project Cool's XML Zone

:: linuxian 4/17/2000 10:45:39 AM [+] ::

DriverGuide.com (printer drivers, cdrom drivers, modem drivers, sound drivers, mouse drivers, monitor drivers, etc.) - DriverGuide.com

:: linuxian 4/14/2000 12:23:31 PM [+] ::

The DLL Archive - Another location/mirror for this site.

:: linuxian 4/14/2000 12:13:46 PM [+] ::

The DLL Archive - Seems like there are several of these. This is one.

:: linuxian 4/14/2000 11:47:01 AM [+] ::

DLL Star - may help you locate all those missing Windows dll files (Blech! Blech!).

:: linuxian 4/14/2000 11:41:55 AM [+] ::

The Metatopia Project - Another cyberverse project but farther along than most.

:: linuxian 4/12/2000 03:49:20 PM [+] ::

I'm working a bit with Jabber. We have an experimental server set up. Clients are really shaky right now but I was able to connect to jabber.org via the WinJab client and communicated with one other person in a group. Cool! I see a lot of potential in Jabber -- it's worth investigating. I'm not having such good luck with the other clients -- perhaps I just don't know how to use them yet. In particular, I'm a bit annoyed with the Tcl/Tk client; I can *almost* use it.

:: linuxian 4/12/2000 12:09:32 PM [+] ::

Jabber.org: Jabber Developers - main developers' news area.

:: linuxian 4/11/2000 12:10:57 PM [+] ::

Jabber.org: - Here's the page for the Jabber protocol. To quote from the page, "Jabber is an Instant Messaging System, similar to ICQ or AIM, yet far different. It is open-source, absolutely free, simple, fast, extensible, modularized, cross platform, and created with the future in mind. Jabber has been designed from the ground up to serve the needs of the end user, satisfy business demands, and maintain compatibility with other messaging systems."

:: linuxian 4/11/2000 11:27:16 AM [+] ::

Squeak Plugin Download

:: linuxian 4/11/2000 11:19:46 AM [+] ::

FindLaw Tech Deals - Highly recommended by our BusDev guy.

:: linuxian 4/11/2000 10:53:32 AM [+] ::

The Joust Outliner - This is a very cool JavaScript website navigation system. It's free and basically unencumbered.

:: linuxian 4/11/2000 10:32:29 AM [+] ::

HtmlStream - The site for HTMLStream, a tutorial referenced in the April 2000 Java Developers Journal, pp. 68 - 76.

:: linuxian 4/07/2000 05:03:50 PM [+] ::

How To Write Unmaintainable Code - This one's worth reading for any programmer BUT NOT TO USE FOR CODING EXAMPLES! No cut & paste from this site, please!

:: linuxian 4/07/2000 05:01:18 PM [+] ::

Tim Rowledge's homepage - Tim is a serious Squeaker. He mostly works on VM changes and ports, especially for the Acorn and several handheld devices.

:: linuxian 4/07/2000 09:26:30 AM [+] ::

x.themes.org - Theme resources for XWindows.

:: linuxian 4/06/2000 11:35:39 AM [+] ::

Eye Candy III - Squeak Morphic tutorial.

:: linuxian 4/06/2000 10:19:32 AM [+] ::

Eye Candy III - part of a Squeak Morphic tutorial.

:: linuxian 4/06/2000 10:00:47 AM [+] ::

CNET.com - News - The Net - Court: Programming languages covered by First Amendment - an article about an April 2000 federal appeals court decision "finding that computer code qualifies as speech protected by the First Amendment."

:: linuxian 4/06/2000 09:56:35 AM [+] ::

Software Process Resource Collection

:: linuxian 4/05/2000 12:06:08 PM [+] ::

Annotated Bibliography on Code Reading and Program Comprehension - Lots of good information here!

:: linuxian 4/05/2000 12:03:43 PM [+] ::

An Annotated Bibliography for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - a serious bibliography!

:: linuxian 4/05/2000 12:01:57 PM [+] ::

Morphic Sample - The Scrabble Game

:: linuxian 4/05/2000 11:22:19 AM [+] ::

Morphic - The Squeak User Interface

:: linuxian 4/05/2000 11:21:53 AM [+] ::

Studio - The homepage of Lucia and Juan Manuel Vuletich, including some Squeak information.

:: linuxian 4/05/2000 11:07:07 AM [+] ::

Internet.com - Internet information network.

:: linuxian 4/04/2000 05:39:25 PM [+] ::

VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T - Did I bookmark this site before? If not, I'd better do it now. This is an *important* tool!

:: linuxian 4/04/2000 01:27:48 PM [+] ::

Software Design - Windows Software by Gregory Braun - New full-service website for Greg, who produces freeware and shareware (including FontShow, BattleStar, Dll Show, File Shredder, etc.

:: linuxian 4/04/2000 10:45:37 AM [+] ::

The Prefab Widget Set - A Tk-like widget set for Squeak.

:: linuxian 4/03/2000 12:21:30 PM [+] ::