I joined del.icio.us- January 30, 2004 del.icio.us is definetely cool. For those of you who have never heard about it, del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It basically allows you to store and share your bookmarks using a website. The cool thing is that you can see, who has bookmarked the same links as you, which often helps to find other interesting links. My bookmarks are here.http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/i_joined_del_icio_us Nokia prefers Python to Perl for smartphone scripting- January 30, 2004 See here Anyone wants to give away a Nokia 6600 for a Sony T610 ;)http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/nokia_prefers_python_to_perl Patenting an XML schema- January 23, 2004 It seems that Microsoft is trying to patent their XML file format for Word. Is this the brave new world of exchangeable document formats, that XML is praised to bring us I would then rather prefer closed file formats, that can be legally reverse engineered ...:http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/patenting_an_xml_schema Sun working on new Language- January 20, 2004 Miguel blogs about the news, that Sun is working on a a new intermediate language . From the article it's unclear whether it will be a completely new language or just a new Intermediate Language and Run-Time Environment. "Java has made it easy to program using a small number of threads. But in this technical computing world you have to handle thousands or hundreds of thousands of threads. We need the right language constructs to do that," The idea seems to be to make parallel programming..http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/sun_working_on_new_language |