My Archives: February 2001
Friday, February 23, 2001
Cor - Intel are doing XML hardware.
Posted by yoz @ 03:35 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Robert Scoble reviews Groove, and doesn't like it much, though thinks it will probably get better. I completely agree with how important the "getting" aspect is. To me, Groove seems like just another groupware app, nod your head, get the gist, forget about it ten minutes later.
Posted by yoz @ 03:32 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
I had a ten-minute ramble with Campbell and Henrik about P2P. Here are a few random notes I've jotted down - feel free to come up and talk to me about any of them if you want more info. [more]
Posted by yoz @ 05:55 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Bob Hertz, founder of Oridean, is visiting at the moment. They do this cute little shop-builder with a nice interface that they license out to sites. It kind of reminds me of Akopia - they hired Mike Heins, author of the fantastic free Perl-based shop system Minivend. Akopia already had a system called Tallyman that had a lovely admin interface but wasn't much cop on the backend. Minivend was just the opposite - fantastic backend, total pain to use. The resulting product looks very nice, and is still completely free (it's GPLed).
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I was talking to Bryan about Python yesterday - it's a completely lovely language and becoming more and more popular. You can do rapid-development in it. You can write web stuff in it. It's object-oriented from the ground up (unlike Java). And there's a pure-Java implementation of it (Jython) that you can embed in Java apps. I'm going to try learning it again - I originally coded in it in 1994, and haven't touched it since, which I'm really regretting. Dive Into Python is helping me catch up quickly.
Posted by yoz @ 03:14 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]