Archive 10/2007

Yesterday Mozilla Labs released the first public version of their AIR competitor called "Prism" and my enthusiasm didn't climb about the "whatever"-level. But today I took a look the announcement again and thought about how this could be perfect solution for one of my problems I was about to face with Spaces.

For years OmniApps have been among of the most recommended apps for MacOSX users and so quite a few people probably asked the support staff one and the same question over and over again: Will Omni* work on Leopard?

Another month, another photowalk. This time with a topic suiting the season ("Colors of Autumn") and quite a few records and 2 dogs (with one being large enough to just run you down if you're not careful) ...

I've tried to get around the whole distutils vs. setuptools issue ever since I started working with Python, but setuptools might have a big advantage on its list when it comes to distributing "complete" applications where I faced some problems with distutils recently.

According to German news site heise.de, Microsoft won't compete against Apple with their Zune media player in Germany because of the local market which is dominated by sub-100EUR players.

For the last week or so I've been messing a little bit around with Pylons during my limited free time in order to be of at least of some help for Martin with his new project. I'm not really sure how I should feel about this framework, though.

Now this is strange. I would have expected Nokia to buy them, but Google? Perhaps Twitter was not for sale, although I also didn't notice that Jaiku was. Anyway, it seems like this is one of those acquisitions where the buyer more or less locks the site down to integrate it completely into its own infrastructure (Writely anyone?).

... and now according to Jeff Barr even an SLA, which should be something for all those people who thought about using S3 for mission critical storage but were turned down by the lack of some kind of clear statement regarding the reliability of the service.

For the last two days I wanted to write about it ... but I actually wanted to wait until I had finished reading it. Thanks to quite a lot of other stuff (OK, probably mostly Halo 3) it takes longer than I had anticipated, so I will just write about it after being only halfway through.

I guess by now everyone who is interested in it has already seen the screenshots of the new del.icio.us Delicious interface posted a while ago on TechCrunch. Since I still consider the simplicity of Delicious' interface far superior to what Ma.gnolia has to offer, I at least wanted to keep both more or less synchronized. So I wrote once again a little script that adds all those bookmarks I made on Ma.gnolia during my absence from Delicious ... with the expected problems.