Tuesday, December 16, 1997

http://www.finetuning.com/ -- lots of XML stuff.

My friends at Venue Media are doing the SuperBowl site, and now Microsoft is excited about it.

Could it get more incestuous?

SJ Merc: Today is the 50th anniversary of the transistor.

SJ Merc: Microsoft's plan to remove web browser from Windows.

Microsoft started a scripting website. I guess this one goes in my Favorites menu. {qbullet.imageref ("sidesmiley")}

ARDI Executor claims to run Mac software on other operating systems. If it works with Frontier, this may get our software running on Linux, OS/2 and OpenStep. Please let me know if you try it and it works.

Paul Boutin's second Java piece provides a strong argument for the separation of Java from Sun. Someone's got to have a clean-room implementation that can take Java into all the nooks and crannies and different operating systems without Sun's kill-Microsoft baggage. Where is it?

WebReview piece on DataChannel's XML stuff. What do you think?

A great message about friendship from Louis Bookbinder in response to Empowerment, 12/7/97.

I published the source code to the Site Changes XML application. It's designed to run in the Frontier 5 environment, but it can be adapted to PERL, C, Tcl, Java, whatever. If you port it to another environment, put up a web page, send me a pointer.

I'm also going to publish the source code for my XML parser when it's ready. It's the fastest way to get it debugged and complete. Let's have fun!

The next step is to get Frontier to read siteChanges.xml into the object database on my Windows machine. The file is produced on my Mac! As MCI says, isn't this Internet thing great?

From InfoWorld, a sober story of evolution: "Forrester Research says that high-profile content sites that cost $893,000 annually to operate in December 1995 cost $3.1 million to operate today and will cost $6.3 million in 2000." They're right! It pays to get systematic about growth.