Good Ole Eric S. Raymond: “As for looking at .NET? Sure, we should be looking at it — the same way the Samba guys look at SMB file shares. C# is a weak language design, a sort of pale imitation Java. But that just makes it easier to co-opt.” Hmmmm. Related perhaps to this article… Dot-GNet?
Yes, I’m 30(!) years old today. Wow.
There’s a song I heard on the radio the other day that I cannot for the life of me figure out the title or artist for. I can remember some of the lyrics on the chorus, but that’s it. And I can hear the main hook in my head something fierce. The lyrics go something like (please don’t laugh):
i try to rise, and
keep my head up (head up)
i’m the king of the kong(?)
we’ll be singing the song
bring it on
bring it on
bring it on
Can anyone can help me figure this out?!?
Tim O’Reilly points to a Jon Udell article on “Environmental Aqcuisition”: a fancy name for hierarchy-based inheritance.
Frontier, the scripting system I used for many years, had this concept in it’s web site framework back in 1995: directives defined at higher levels of the container hierarchy were inherited by lower levels unless explicitly overidden.
John Rhodes makes the case that as long as we’re concerned about Microsoft’s shared source, or smart tags, Microsoft is winning, because they are moving to a service model where they control the infrastructure of authentication and personal information, and internet services. Hmmm.
Well, ok, not really… But I checked out Fandango.Com after seeing the ads at the last few movies I’ve seen. Fandango (so far) seems relatively simple. Browse in, find a movie, and buy a ticket for your local theater. Cool!
Ok, thinking about Smart-Tags-done-right again… Here’s a free idea. I’d like to see a Mac OS X service (probably need to be imeplemented in Java) that lets me download libraries of XLinks, then (optionally by using the service) tags words in my documents with a popup menu of possible links. This would build on work done in XLink, make use of existing Java-based XLink libraries, and be a total opt-in. Everything, of course, that Smart Tags aren’t.
Read an early draft of my Personal Platform.
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