Monday, July 28, 2003

AChat-PHP AChat-PHP-1.0a released (ATutor (Learning Management System)). Total project downloads to date: 2809 Project description: ATutor is a Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS), created with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Quick to install and easy to administer. An Open Source adaptive learning environment. [Download] [Release Notes] By greggy@users.sourceforge.net (Greg Gay). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] Deserves a closer look. 10:43:57 PM

Judge sets rules for e-mail retrieval. A federal judge orders financial firm UBS to pay most of the cost of restoring lost e-mail in a lawsuit against it, but she does shift some of the burden to the plaintiff. [CNET News.com] 10:39:59 PM

Onfocus: Amazon RSS Feed Builder. [Scripting News] 10:39:02 PM

openamf 1.0RC1 released (OpenAMF - Java Flash Remoting). Total project downloads to date: 698 Project description: The OpenAMF Project is a free open-source alternative to Macromedia`s Java Flash Remoting. It is as capable of providing application services to Flash MX as Macromedia`s proprietary solution. This project began as a Java port of AMF-PHP. [Download] [Release Notes] By jcalabrese@users.sourceforge.net (Jason Calabrese). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:37:55 PM

Excellent Radio U fact sheet from Marc Barrot. Last year. I must've missed it. Very insightful. [Scripting News] 5:19:18 PM

Amazon goes RSS. A mere 7 months after I wrote about last-minute business RSS here<a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon gets it. Nearly. Amazon now provides RSS feeds embedded inside the HTML pages. To actually subscribe to the RSS you will need to take a look at the source of the page and then find the link to manually add it to your RSS newsreader (at least my version of NetNewsWire can't "auto-discover" the RSS feed). Here is an example RSS feed. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 8:20:52 AM