Friday, November 19, 2004

xmlrpcflash 0.82 released (XMLRPC Client for Flash ActionScript 2.0). Total project downloads to date: 5551 Project description: XML-RPC Client for Flash is an AS2 class-based library that allows Flash to act as an XML-RPC client. Using XML-RPC can save Flash developers hours of scripting work. [Download] [Release Notes] By dopelogik@users.sourceforge.net (Matt Shaw). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 7:31:42 PM    comment []  trackback []

With all due respect to Jeffrey Veen, who I know from my Wired days, his experience with the email model type of RSS reader is exactly why that's the model you don't want to use. It's not like email. Let the river of items flow through your queue, scroll over them with a scroll bar, and don't let the software tell you you're falling behind. Your time is what's valuable, there's no value to the items you didn't read. If it's important it'll pop up again. RSS is not email. Don't sort them out into little boxes that you have to go to, make them flow to you, in a river, unsorted. I wish people would just listen to this simple idea, so many people are using RSS the wrong way. [Scripting News] Dave is so right about this.  I've looked at a lot of RSS aggrators/readers and the 3 pane model that looks like a mail client is not good.  The flow is what is important.  Using Radio I can scan a couple of hundred headlines in a few minutes and then, BAM!, they are gone.  This is not email.  You can miss some.  If your livelihood depends on what you are reading feeds, you should seek professional help. 3:43:03 PM    comment []  trackback []

OPEN-XCHANGE 0.7.5. The OPEN-XCHANGE Collaboration and Integration Server Environment allows you to store appointments, contacts, tasks, email messages, bookmarks, documents, and many more elements and share them with other users. This environment can be accessed with any modern Web browser and multiple fat clients like KDE Kontact, Ximian Evolution, Konqueror, Mozilla Calendar, and many more. Every third-party product can access this application over many different interfaces, such as WebDAV (XML), LDAP, iCal, and HTTP(S). This makes OPEN-XCHANGE a powerful product which can be used in many different business and private areas. [freshmeat.net] 3:37:28 PM    comment []  trackback []

freshmeat.net: Project details for DOSBox freshmeat.net: Project details for DOSBox - "DOSBox uses SDL to emulate the PC hardware required for running old DOS games. This includes a 386 processor, an S3/Trio video card with some tweaks to allow for older display hardware like the Tandy, a Sound Blaster Pro, the PC speaker, Tandy 3-sound, CMS/GameBlaster, Disney Sound Source, and MIDI. DOS emulation is integrated. It is possible to mount local directories as drives inside the emulator. " 11:47:14 AM    comment []  trackback []

Here's an idea, probably not very new, that came from a thread on Don Park's weblog a couple of days ago. Suppose there's an issue, say Choice vs Life (to pick something heavy) and you've got two people who like each other enough to be willing to have a refereed online back and forth. So there are three people, one on each side of an issue, and the third making sure that there are no personal attacks. The discussion takes place only between the two people, for two months, two years, two decades, two lifetimes, however long it takes, however long both have something to say. (Of course people can comment on the discussion on their own blogs, on mail lists, radio shows, where ever.) A document with three authors that's constantly being revised. Sure you can take vacations, maybe a month or a year at a time, as-needed. This would be different from a mail list, or a blog, or anything else. A deliberate respectful discussion, more about the respect and exposure of issues, than about settling the unsettleable. An interesting idea? [Scripting News] Oddly enough, John, Deb, and I were discussing just this sort of thing except using CALI Author as a way to create interactive articles about hot issues in the legal arena. 11:06:40 AM    comment []  trackback []