I had a quick look at the new fancy features announced for MacOSX 1.4 "Tiger". Surely looks cool, but many of these "new" features recall me of existing popular sharewares: Spotlight looks like Launchbar with better organized search results, Safari RSS, well... will just kill NetNewsWire, Dashboard closely mimics ...
Excalibur is now a top-level Apache project. After months of discussions and uncertainty, all the good code it holds finally finds a stable home, managed by people that care about its future. Is Leo Simons, the Excalibur PMC chairman, the young Arthur that became king by taking the Excalibur sword ...
Lots of news for my little person, these days: I'm on the main page of Brainsonic, a french site distributing "e-seminars and webcasts". This is the recording of a Cocoon presentation I made at a the Net2004 seminar: what's webcasted is the PowerPoint slides synchronized with my voice ...
Yesterday evening, we had a drink in the office to celebrate my election at the Cocoon PMC chair, and my fellow colleagues offered me... a silver feather! Thanks a lot for this nice present. Not sure though I will always wear it, especially when I need to wear tie and ...
Yep, that's me. I am the new Cocoon PMC chairman. Which also gives me the shiny title of vice-president of the Apache Software Foundation. Thanks to all, and I hope to be up to your expectations! PS: Carsten and Matthew were faster than me at blogging this event.
Marc shows how Cocoon's Flowscript makes things really easy. I have the same set of utilities, and even went further with dialogs: var option = sendOptionDialogAndWait( "Item " + item.name + " already exists. What do you want to do?", ["Overwrite", "Rename", "Discard"]);switch(option) { case 0: doOverwrite(data); sendInfoDialog("Old item has ...
Three important Cocoon-related news lately: Cocoon 2.1.5 is out. This is mainly a bugfix release. vnunet.com, a high traffic website is now powered by Cocoon. Cocoon is better represented into the ASF: David, Bertrand and Gianugo have been elected as ASF members, and Stefano has been elected ...
Two recent events that are worth correlating: JBoss Group people use disgusting disinformation practices to spread FUD in opensource communities. Fortunately, this can't be hidden forever. BEA opensources some of their proprietary software. But this doesn't mean it will gather a successful community. Where will be the convergence ...
Wow, a PowerPC emulator for PCs, able to run MacOS X on ugly beige boxes. Mmmh... what if we run VirtualPC on a virtual Mac running in PearPC? A good way to waste lots of CPU cycles for fun! Via Marcus.
It's a one month old news (rather old compared to the blogosphere's usual speed), but I stumbled across this today: bytecode transformations using XSLT! Wow, this is something I dreamed about when writing J-Fit two years ago. J-Fit is our in-house pipeline-based bytecode transformation tool that is used ...