Patrick Beard: TechnicalInteresting technical tidbits...(Untitled)- February 20, 2003 This item from MacCentral boggles the mind: Microsoft acquires Virtual PC from Connectix Here are a couple things Microsoft might do: 1. kill the VirtualPC product for the Mac, to lock Mac users out of future versions of this powerful PC emulation engine. 2. recompile the Windows bits as PowerPC native code, potentially hugely accelerating the performance. If they chose option 2, then who knows, maybe they'd release PowerPC code generators for their compilers, and things could get weird...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/technical/2003/02/19.html#a67 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 OK, I finally get this RSS stuff. Represent news items as XML, aggregate them in a page. Voila! You have a web log. For a long time I didn't get it. What would an end user want with all that XML Well, not much really, it's only valuable if it's displayed in a format the user can use. But one never knows what it might become useful for down the road. Makes you think... Being an editor is the most crucial thing. Sure, you get lots of RSS stuff thrown your way, but you sift the good stuff from...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/technical/2003/02/13.html#a63 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 Just saw this on MacSlash: Apple Posts XML Schema For Keynote Very interesting. Makes Keynote all the more attractive over PowerPoint. Microsoft uses XML file formats too, but they don't document it, and have so many extensions that it isn't very useful XML. If Apple stands behind this specification, this is a really good thing (tm).http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/technical/2003/02/13.html#a62 |