Patrick Chanezon's Radio Weblog

Guido van Rossum started a weblog

Mon, 05 May 2003 17:24:42 GMT

Guido van Rossum (Python creator) started a weblog, at Artima. He's in good company there: Ward Cunningham , Frank Sommers, Bill Venners, Jim Waldo.

I like Bill Venners and I'm glad that Artima starts hosting weblogs for programming stars.

Got my powerbook: a few mac links

Mon, 05 May 2003 17:02:38 GMT

Just got my Powerbook today. Still blogging on the old Dell. A few mac links that can come in handy tomorrow:

O'Reilly mac weblogs

Marc Liyanage Mac OS X Packages and Server Logistics should have more recent versions.

Link: Best of Show. [Sam Ruby]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:36:50 GMT

Best of Show. [Sam Ruby]

About Alan Kay, Social Software and Chandler.

Link: Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? [Ted Leung]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:37:51 GMT

Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? [Ted Leung]

Link: Cool Mozilla Toolbar for Web Developers [kdub's log]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:36:25 GMT

Cool Mozilla Toolbar for Web Developers [kdub's log]

Link: Commerce One boosts Web services development. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:33:03 GMT

Commerce One boosts Web services development. Open-source kit released [InfoWorld: Top News]

Link: Plumtree grows beyond portal roots. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:32:54 GMT

Plumtree grows beyond portal roots. Company unwraps integrated infrastructure suite [InfoWorld: Top News]

Link: Jabber or JXTA. [Welcome to the real world]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:31:58 GMT

Jabber or JXTA. [Welcome to the real world]

Don't know why Jabber has more adoption in the open source world than JXTA. Maybe because of the initial application: both are great infrastructures, but Jabber shipped with a useful IM client and server, while JXTA just shipped a useless sample application that is a shell.

Link: Have Objects Failed?. [::Manageability::]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:30:00 GMT

Have Objects Failed?. [::Manageability::]

Link: Radio UserLand Links Outline. [UserLand Product News]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:29:44 GMT

Radio UserLand Links Outline. [UserLand Product News]

Link: Open Source and Open Standards.[O'Reilly Network MacDevCenter.com]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:29:19 GMT

Open Source and Open Standards.[O'Reilly Network MacDevCenter.com]

Link: RDFMap (RDF Mapping Language). [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:28:55 GMT

RDFMap (RDF Mapping Language). [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF]

Link: Google's Exponential Returns. [Ross Mayfield's Weblog]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:28:13 GMT

Google's Exponential Returns. [Ross Mayfield's Weblog]

About Google's use of wiki equivalent and weblogs.

Link: Sun evangelist yawns about new Windows server. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:25:28 GMT

Sun evangelist yawns about new Windows server. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Link: Opinion: Sun / JBoss Cold War Heats Up. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:24:22 GMT

Opinion: Sun / JBoss Cold War Heats Up. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Link: Blogs and InfoWorld. [Jon's Radio]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:24:00 GMT

Blogs and InfoWorld. [Jon's Radio]

Link: Sun touts metering in utility push. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:22:03 GMT

Sun touts metering in utility push. Customers would pay for systems based on usage [InfoWorld: Top News]

Link: On Apple's Music Store. [ongoing]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:21:30 GMT

On Apple's Music Store. [ongoing]

Tim Bray's thoughts about Apple's new music offering.

Link: Infoworld's Collaboration Platform of choice: Groove[Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:19:37 GMT

Infoworld's Collaboration Platform of choice. Infoworld's Chad Dickerson about Groove [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]

I'd also like to see groove on the Mac, since I will soon switch.

Lin: Bayesian Java toolkit. [Raw Blog]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:17:56 GMT

Bayesian Java toolkit. [Raw Blog]

Link: AOP in Python

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:29:56 GMT

David Mertz wrote ONLamp.com: A Primer on Python Metaclass Programming Metaclass Programming allows you to do AOP in Python.

This article seems to be a rehash of his february DeveloperWorks article Metaclass programming in Python

There's also a Python AOP module for Zope, called Transwarp that exploits these techniques.

Link: Notes from the Chandler Demo

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:17:20 GMT

Notes from the Chandler Demo is an excellent introduction to Chandler. I tried their release 0.1 and while rough it is very promising. The Notes explain why the platform they build is promising. Based on wxWindows, Python, RDF and jabber, the architecture looks great and very flexible.

I'm just disappointed that they did not chose to implement this on top of Mozilla, which I think had already all the required platform features. I guess that performance, the choice to have native widgets, and the decision to use Python is what triggered their choice.

It's a great opportunity for me to give a try to my new abilities in Python, which I begun to learn 2 months ago and find a very exciting language.

They use Twiki for their wiki site: a very tasteful choice shall I say :-)

Re: Discussions about Blogshares

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:06:20 GMT

There's an interesting conversation going on about Blogshares.

Joi has a Chat with Seyed, creator of Blogshares, and Pierre Omidyar gives his own thoughts bout it in Joi on Blogshares.

I don't know have a definite point of view about this experiment yet: I think that the sociology of influence games warrant a much more complex regulation system than a market, but at the same time as Omidyar points out, this may lead to some interesting results in the area of "collaborative, value-creating blogs".

An example of analysis of influence games and their complexity is Pierre Bourdieu's excellent The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, where he analyzes the autonomization of the literary field, led by Flaubert in the 19th century. See http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745611524 and http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0804726272 to get an idea of the content.

Clearly a simple market mechanism will not be a good enough mechanism to regulate the complex relationships that the actors are involved in the literary or scientific field.

Welcome Anders

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:12:04 GMT

My ex-Netscape colleague Anders Eriksson started a java blog (I just discovered it on javablog).

Welcome Anders !

Your RSS is valid but Radio cannot understand it. Maybe because it is RSS 1.0. I need to switch to a more tolerant RSS reader.

I get

Can't subscribe to the channel. The most likely cure is to check the URL in a web browser and see if you can get it to read the feed. The following message probably won't help you figure out what went wrong, but we include it here because it might. "Can't evaluate the expression because the name "title" hasn't been defined."

Link: $1.00 a song, instead of $.10 a song. [Marc's Voice]

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:54:47 GMT

$1.00 a song, instead of $.10 a song. New 15GB and 30GB iPods and Music Store. [Marc's Voice]