Friday, April 03, 1998

How to call Frontier thru COM from a web page. Hey, it says we do ActiveX! How did that happen?

Faisal Jawdat automates Dreamweaver with Frontier.

Arnold Lesikar: A new Frontier DLL that compresses and expands using GZIP format. Mac PowerPC and Windows.

More information from Bierman on COM in Frontier.

More Biermania! Now he wants to know how he should implement the client side of the COM interface for Frontier.

This InfoWorld story looks interesting. What is data warehousing? Is that a dumb question?

Another dumb question -- is there a definitive spec on the net for the .DBF file format? This is the format that was used by dBASE. I hear there's a lot of .DBF files floating around, it would be interesting if we could read and write them in Frontier.

O!Reilly's freeware summit!

Upside's 100 tastiest companies.

News.com: The loop is closing on a piece I wrote in 1996.

In relation to yesterday's oft-revised heads-up piece on simple cross-network scripting, I received thru email, a public posting by a Netscape researcher, proposing an IETF working group in the area we're actively developing.

We want to be compatible with what Netscape is doing; and vice versa. As with Netscape, our need for a simple net-scripting protocol is driven by the need to be able to quickly build and deploy net-based content management software.

BusinessWeek: "But Andreessen couldn't have guessed his glory days would be so brief. Indeed, he has had to grow up in Internet Time, a term first used to describe how quickly Netscape delivered new products (originally every six months, a breakneck pace). Bill Gates got to run Microsoft for more than a dozen years before IBM set its sights on him. For Netscape and Andreessen, the trip from phenom to potential has-been was over in a blink of an eye."

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