Wednesday, August 27, 1997

From Chuck Shotton: BIAP Chat for WebSTAR. So much to say! Chuck wrote WebSTAR. The client is in Java proving that Chuck speaks for himself. BIAP is an acronym for "Brain in a pan".

Curl is a web scripting language from MIT.

Mail Starting 8/27/97.

Today's Frontier Toy: the the color table site and the script that created it. Looking for a good color scheme for some web text?

News.com: Lawsuit may slow push spec.

Novadigm's press release.

Dan Shafer on C|Net: Java class library warfare.

SJ Merc: Sun says Java will improve.

Tuesday, August 26, 1997

DaveNet: Amelio on Competition.

PC Magazine rates ISPs.

InfoWorld: What's in Microsoft Office 98 (and what's not).

It's a Two-Toy-Tuesday: ASCII Table Maker.

I'm listening to Scott McNealy's speech from NY via ZDNN. Requires RealAudio.

Marimba, Netscape, Sun, Novell and @Home propose an open standard for replication thru W3C.

In his latest TidBITS column, Adam Engst questions the value of discussing the Apple-cloners situation. My belief -- by exchanging ideas, which the Mac community is doing so well now, we can do what computer users do best -- use technology to learn and teach. Think about it, Apple has no CEO right now. It's a wierd time! There's never been a better time to influence the outcome.

8/2/97: The Web is a Conversation.

From the Tom Seaver Museum: The Sporting News article from July 1987 about his retirement from baseball.

Today's Frontier toy: Unix-style args for Finder scripting.

CNN: Federal judge declares encryption export restrictions unconstitutional.

Is it possible to use Sun's Tk user interface runtime to front-end Frontier scripts? They provide source code for Windows, Mac and Unix. Responses on Mail Starting 8/23/97. Send mail to dave@scripting.com. We haven't ported MacBird to Win32 yet.

Monday, August 25, 1997

Bill Cheeseman has an extensive list of changes in AppleScript 1.1.2.

Brent Schlender says the Apple-Microsoft deal is hollow.

Tom Clifton updated today's Frontier toy to work with either Eudora or Claris Emailer.

If you're using a CDF-aware web browser, please try our Microsoft-blessed channel definition file.

Wired News: Apple Powerplay Fouls Cloner's IPO.

MacAddict interview with Gil Amelio. "Apple needs to learn how to compete. It is a corporate skill set that does not exist at Apple today."

Sun: Tcl 8.0 and Tk 8.0.

Here's a suggestion for the browser makers... A new preference that disables the target="new" attribute that causes an <a href> to open in a new window. I think this choice should be up to the user, not up to a site designer. Save braincells.

Michael Murdock would like to be CEO of Apple.

For Frontier users, a new overnight script that accumulates an outline of addresses that you've sent mail to. Outline searching is much faster than searching in Eudora.

Crispin Roven talks about regular expressions on WebMonkey.

Eric Raymond explains how the Linux developer world works.

Geek heaven... The SJ Merc tells the story of Fry's Electronics.

8/12/96: What If... What If! What was Apple doing last year when Power Computing was 'fighting back for the Mac'?

Gil Amelio wrote an op-ed piece in Sunday's SJ Merc.

Saturday, August 23, 1997

DaveNet: Apple Avoids Competition.

Mail Starting 8/23/97.

Our ISP, Conxion, makes a deal with Network Solutions. Conxion is the best ISP in the world.

Henry Norr of MacWEEK writes the next chapter in Apple's nightmarish war with the cloners.

A simple policy: UserLand Software will not purchase any Apple products until this mess is cleaned up.

Apple website: Who's Who on the Licensing Team. If you send email, please be respectful, and understand that these people probably aren't making the big decisions at Apple.

Wired News: fascinating piece on web standards bodies.

Charles Randlolph Shotton, born on 8/19/97 to Linda and Chuck Shotton. What a beautiful boy!

A sign seen on Highway 88, east of Jackson, California.

The CGI Resources website.

Saturday, August 16, 1997

Summer Reading.

Friday, August 15, 1997

DaveNet: Summer Vacation.

Henry Norr discusses the cloning issue.

Is this a secret-coded message for aliens?

News from Microsoft on XML.

Mail Starting 8/15/97.

6/16/97: Sucking Sideways.

Brooke Shelby Biggs on HotWired: Who's Behind the Curtain?

Bill Gates to keynote the Seybold conference in San Francisco in September.

I've already received five pointers to today's www.suck.com cartoon strip.

Check out this MacWEEK article.

I can hear it now... "We were getting backed into this image that the cloners were bad for the platform, when all the time we were helping them make better Macs."

Here's a beautiful Scripting News graphic, and here's one that isn't a graphic at all.

Thursday, August 14, 1997

Microsoft/Marimba Announcement.

More information from Marimba.

Narrative's Enliven, does animated web ads in less than 20K; converts Director moves too.

BSCW shared workspace system.

Preston Holmes and rasterboy enter the Scripting News graphics derby.

News.com: Microsoft, Marimba to make announcement later today.

Dan Shafer on c|net: Java class library warfare.

The Java Developer's Lobby wants Java to be truly portable, reliable, standard, bug-free and high-performance.

Let's add "open" to the list of goals for Java. My interest: let's make it possible for people to write plug-ins for Frontier in Java.

Cameron Barret't's book list.

More interesting ideas on Mail Starting 8/12/97.

News.com: Mac cloners to bundle Virtual PC.

CNN: Is the web a vast wasteland? Have they tried Don's Amazing Puzzle?

Chris Nolan says, in the SJ Merc, that patents are the substantial part of last week's Microsoft-Apple deal. Apple's VP-Marketing, Guerrino De Luca, agrees.