Thursday, April 10, 2003

Welcome, Bill! via bbum's rants, code & references: "After going down a painfully wrong path, a very quick answer from one of the developer's (the developer?) of PyCS pointed out how incredibly easy it is to switch from www.weblogs.com to www.pycs.net as your Radio hosting server." Bill wrote an interesting piece prior to moving to PyCS. For those evaluating their weblog solutions, it might be worth checking out. Bill looks at weblog tools and hosting solutions he has considered. I will be keeping an eye his adventures. 9:26:16 PM    The Soapbox

UserLand's Open Solutions via WorkBench: "UserLand offered an object database API with the release of Frontier 5 for MacOS and Windows. There's no telling if it still works today, since it was released more than six years ago, but you can't fault them for not trying to open things up." Rogers, thanks for the reminder. One has to admit that UserLand's solutions are indeed open solutions. If you need to open the hood to customize Radio or Frontier you can. If you decide to look at the ODB APIs of that era, don't forget to pick-up a copy of the "classic" free Mac version of Frontier, or as I recall, the first/last free version of Frontier for Windows. Back in 2000, Dave started the year off with a bang releasing his MacBird to the UserLand Community and the open source world. I know that Rogers has peeked at the source. I have to admit that it would be interesting to see how MacBird would work on OS X. Unfortunately, like other worthy open source offerings it appears to be in cold storage at the moment. Update: Brent Simmons has an historical note on MacBird. 9:08:09 PM    The Soapbox