Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blog breaks the news of a Security bulletin from MS. “Microsoft breaks its normal security release schedule today to address the download.ject vulnerability, among others. Patch it while it’s hot! :-)”
Garretts also got a link on his blog to a really neat graphical demonstration of sorting algorithm efficiencies:
Sorting Algorithm Demos.
Edwards
Leaves NPR to Host Satellite Radio Show,
reports NPR. What a disappointment. The voice millions heard on their
alarm clocks each morning is off on a new adventure. I think NPR
management handled his departure poorly. Glad he had time to write his
book and go on a book tour, and I wish Bob the best in the
future.
Danese Cooper reports on a rare event:
Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one
point he said he wanted to show us a “really cool” feature and he
looked up into the audience and said “Show of hands…How many of you
use Internet Explorer?”. Probably 99 times out of 100 when he [...]
Outrageous! Parody or Satire, the hysterical JibJib take-off on “This
Land is Your Land” deserves protection as a work of art. There is
something wrong with a copyright system that doesn’t protect but rather
prevents the priviledge to use a song that has become part of American
culture. The song is sixty years old, and it’s author sadly left [...]
Steve Gillmor makes some interesting predictions
in his news that Adam Bosworth has moved from BEA to Google: Google’s
quiet in its pre-IPO phase, but Steve tells Microsoft: Be afraid.
Interesting news, too: ECMAScript has been standardized with XML
datatypes, effectively making it the XML scripting language. That
should make for some interesting applications. Thanks to The Doc Searls Weblog [...]
Rick Strahl’s got a great article on his site that shows how VFP can
consume more complex Web Services than the silly “Hello, World”
examples, using Rick’s free wwSOAP classes. I recently worked with a
client who was transferring data back and forth (from a non-Microsoft
based service) using parameter objects, and the VFP work was not
trivial. Wish I’d [...]
Fifty bloggers were credentialed as journalists to blog the convention
from the Fleet Center. I just saw CNN cut to Dave Sifry of Technorati fame to tell CNN what the blogosphere was saying. Keep up with the bloggers at ConventionBloggers.com
It’s too tempting not to peek: the six feeds from NPR are links of the
format
http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?topicId=2
topicId=3 and so forth., You just gotta know, dontcha? It looks like
topicID=1 is for the real NPR news junkies - everything! Mmmmm, news
from the firehose!
Dave Winer blogs “Major major: NPR has RSS. I’m all over this!” Via Scripting News
