Scripting News

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:13:03 GMT

Cory Doctorow: \"Feeding the query string 'http' to Google causes it to barf up all the pages in its database in order of their PageRank value.\"

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:07:41 GMT

Candidate for best named blog of 2002.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:23:57 GMT

Megnut: "Hell hath no fury like a woman determined to speak French."

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:13:00 GMT

A minor change to the "RSS" spec re .

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:39:32 GMT

Now that the election is over I can say who I nominated for the annual Wired Rave Awards coming up in January.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:25:55 GMT

Lance offers two happy stories of Copenhagen.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:53:09 GMT

Macromedia announces Contribute. Desktop software for editing static HTML sites.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:52:11 GMT

Paolo has questions and comments about Contribute.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:57:28 GMT

Norm Meyrowitz explains the vision of Contribute.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:58:18 GMT

So the $64,000 question -- did Macromedia support standards like the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API, or did they invent their own using XML-RPC and SOAP, or did they invent their own protocols, or do they just use FTP, or did they build a closed system, or..? I don't see any communication to the content management community in their kit of press releases. Missed opportunity? Or did I miss the architecture doc?

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:51:07 GMT

Stefan Rinner says "They use FTP or mounted server-volumes."

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:07:21 GMT

Kuro5hin: Shortcomings of today's RSS systems.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:22:08 GMT

Subscribable folders, as requested yesterday, are not a new thing. Lots of correspondence. Various flavors of Unix have had it for a long time, and Gnome does, as does Nautilus, so one should expect Chandler will build on this in some way (Andy Hertzfeld being the common denominator). BeOS did quite a good job with this, according to several people who were in and around Be. There's some hope because one of the key Be developers now works at Apple. I emailed with Steve Zellers, he knows what I want and how much I want it. I got dozens of pointers to AppleScript's folder actions, but I don't think that's what we're looking for. I want a super-lean direct connect from the OS to my app. User drops a new file in a folder. Bing. My code is running. Thanks for all the info. Scripting News remains the best way to do quick broad cross-culture technical research.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:38:23 GMT

Brent Simmons: "FNSubscribe is what you're looking for on OS X." Steve Zellers points out that this routine requires the cooperation of the program doing the writing. That's a deal-stopper. Our current method catches all changes, it's just not as fast as it would be if the OS did the notification.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:05:44 GMT

Rob Fahrni sends a pointer to the low-level Win32 routine for directory change notification.