Archive for June, 2004

Just came across this: According the the preview page, Tiger is coming with Blosjom bundled. Blosjom is a java port of the Blosxom software the currently powers this weblog... »

Looks like there may not be a satellite feed for the Stevenote this year. Failing that, there's the O'Reilly coverage, as noted on their MacDevCenter... O'Reilly at WWDC 2004 by Derrick Story -- The Mac crew at O'Reilly has lots going on at this year's WWDC. If you're attending the ultimate Mac bash in San... »

Before leaving for the NMC 2004 Summer Conference, I handed King the code I'd hacked together to implement XML KeyValueCoding and the XStreamDB EOAdaptor. He needed the XML KVC part to implement an ECL client in APOLLO, so it should have worked just fine. In usual King form, he went through my code, and... »

I'm sure this is going to be linked all over the place, but it's a very interesting read. It's a reposting by David Gristwood, of an original article by Jim McCarthy (a manager on the MS Visual C++ team). Particularly interesting and useful, it delves into the topic of "slippage", but treats it as a... »

We're working on a whole bunch of related (and sometimes dependent) projects here at the Learning Commons, and it's sometimes difficult to communicate how they all fit together. Although we are coming at several related problems from several directions simultaneously, we see them all as One Big Project, with each component making up part of... »

Scott Leslie is heading up a rather large initiative in BC to deploy some cool whiz-bang learning object technology across the province for a couple of very large organizations. His group recently made a decision on which technologies they were going to use, and they picked APOLLO. Scott has written up an excellent description of... »

Even a decentralist wants a system to work Provide the wires and power and let it go Provide the interfaces Decentralists are not de-connected not isolationsists not vandals community based on a shared platform rapid group forming, ridiculously easy group forming and problem solving, group comes together and disappears when the need is gone ad hoc! kind of like affinity groups from Henry... »

The NMC 2004 Small Pieces session yesterday went extremely well (I think ;-) ) - it was very chaotic, noisy, confusing, loud, and messy, but I think it was interesting or at least entertaining for all. There was activity on the wiki, some on the weblogs, and some iChatAV video conferences. The Decentralists group wound... »

Here are some lessons that I learned from the whole Dave Winer weblogs.com affair. Own you own domain name. If your blog is at your own domain name, then if you are using a hosted service and somebody takes it down, you can move your content without breaking links. Keep backups of everything that is hosted... »

The Norman family is just about ready for the big trek across the Rockies. We're heading to Vancouver for NMC 2004 Summer Conference, then across to the Island for a few days before returning home. As a result, things are likely going to get quiet(er) around here. I'll likely be blogging something from the NMC... »