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The entire text of the new O'Reilly book Creating Applications with Mozilla is available on line.
At one time I was very excited about this sort of thing. I thought that Mozilla would be the cross platform development environment that would break the microsoft stranglehold on the industry. Didn't really turn out that way, but it's not exactly a bust either. Or, I mean, while the truth might not have lived up to the hype, there's still a lot of cool stuff you can do with Mozilla. And it's a great browser, which is sort of the point anyway.
2 billion year old nuclear reactors? It's true. (via boing boing)
Apple obsession on the big screen.
Deep Fritz has tied the score in its match against human chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Fun story. (via robotwisdom)
Looks like fall 2003 will be a good time to buy a new Mac. Yum. Here's the slashdot thread.
The site has been slow lately, and now this morning it was completely unreachable. Looks like an overfull disk was the problem. Should be better now.
I was a little weirded out to see some of my spams coming through with *****spam***** prepended to the subject line. I wondered if maybe this was some reverse psychology trick to get me to look inside. Instead, it turns out my dialup ISP has started using spam assassin. My own filters in OS 10.2 mail.app completely demolish all my spam anyway, but it's nice to see them making an effort.
My sister and her husband and my little niece Mary are coming for the weekend. Lots of eating planned. It will be fun to see them. I love when people come to visit NYC and I can show it off. Fun starts tonight at Alias.
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Holy cow! Looks like you can now build 100% native Cocoa applications for OS X 10.2 written entirely in Python.
What does that mean? Well, it might mean that someone like me, who's not a "real" programmer, but is quite comfortable in scripting languages like Perl, PHP, (and given a weeekend to get up to speed) Python, could write a "real" program that runs right on your desktop (and not in your browser.) Traditional Cocoa applications, on the other hand, are usually written in Objective C. That's a "real" language. Definitely more than a weekend for me to learn enough about that to do anything. And possibly out of my range all together.
This is the dream, it seems, that many people have for OS X. Including myself. Make the insides accessible to mere mortals. Let us build stuff with our machines, not just consume what's coming down the wire. And make the building process easy. Python looks like the way to go. If I'm understanding this correctly I'm very excited.