Maszman Speaks!

Mitch Kapor, the co-founder of Lotus (now a part of IBM) is work­ing on devel­op­ing an open-source PIM to com­pete with Microsoft’s Exchange (the server behind Out­look) and Lotus Notes. He’s mak­ing sure that Mac and Linux users have equal access (no pun intended), too.

My favorite Linux dis­tro, SuSE has announced that they will be releas­ing an enterprise-oriented ver­sion that will run Office 2000, other Win­dows apps, using CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers.

I did my Master’s work on Smalltalk (a debug­ger), but you don’t hear much about it these days. Nev­er­the­less, folks are still work­ing with it. Case in point, Strongtalk: A Fast, Strongly-Typed Smalltalk (Windows-only, sorry). Some of the tech­nol­ogy used to make it fast has been incor­po­rated into Sun’s HotSpot VM, of course, the strong-typing prob­a­bly helped. They also have an inter­est­ing over­all com­pli­a­tion tech­nique unlike older implementations.

I won­der how it com­pares to Squeak, feature-wise (I would sus­pect Strongtalk to be lot faster, obvi­ously). I’ve used Squeak a bit, and it’s a great imple­men­ta­tion, check it out since it runs on mul­ti­ple plat­forms. It’s great for learn­ing, and their site offers a lot of sup­port for edu­ca­tional uses.

The Reg­is­ter has some early details on Palm OS 6.

Ver­sion 6.0 will be as dra­matic a change for the plat­form as OS X was for Apple, or NT was for Microsoft, and rep­re­sents the cul­mi­na­tion of work from the for­mer Be team Palm acquired last year.

Finally, there’s a movie out about large women that doesn’t treat them as objects of ridicule (ala Shal­low Hal), called Real Women Have Curves. I think the title says it all. Look for more on this in the Jour­nal fairly soon.

Can you find me in this guide to blog­ger per­son­al­ity types?