Monthly Archives: August 2002

Jab­ber is get­ting some well-deserved atten­tion. I’m work­ing on deploy­ing it in my work­group, I wouldn’t be against going company-wide.

XML­hack is a site that offers “XML devel­oper news…by and for the XML com­mu­nity”. Too bad the XML com­mu­nity doesn’t offer a com­pe­tent, schema-aware XML edi­tor for Win­dows or Mac that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. I’m using … Read More →

Mac­Cen­tral: Apple to release Ren­dezvous as open source. Ren­dezvous takes a lot of the com­plex­ity out of find­ing and con­fig­ur­ing net­work devices and is backed by the IETF. Apple can be a potent force in the open source com­mu­nity and … Read More →

Don’t think OS X is pop­u­lar? Apple says it sold over 100,000 copies of 10.2 “Jaguar” over the week­end (at $129). Of course, I remem­ber when the Sys­tem Soft­ware upgrades were free, but then I remem­ber when Mac’s had 128K of RAM.

The New Repulic Online claims to under­stand the rea­son you (and espe­cially me) don’t have broad­band: broad­band providers are keep­ing ISP’s out of the mar­ket. Could be.

IBM is upgrad­ing it’s Eclipse open source IDE to the lat­est Sun JDK. I need to check this out, even though I don’t do much Java work.