By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 2, 2006
Saturday, 2 September 2006
- Multiplayer Game of the Year ★
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Cabel Sasser:
I’ve found myself totally enraptured by a new kind of online gaming experience, one that’s got excitement, thrilling rivalries, stats and achievements, mind-blowing graphics, and seriously perfect music. And sweat. Ridiculous amounts of sweat.
- George Ou’s Greatest Apple Hits ★
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Hilarious trip through Ou’s archive from The Macalope (which looks to be a very promising new Mac weblog). Hard to believe Ou has never won Jackass of the Week honors.
- Hex Fiend 1.1 ★
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Nice update to Peter Ammon’s freeware disk-based-so-it-works-great-against-incredibly-large-files hex editor. (Release notes.)
- CARS Update on ‘Security Bitch Watch’ ★
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Crazy Apple Rumors Site:
We’re into day 11 of Security Bitch Watch and George Ou has still failed to deliver on his “couple of days” promise of fireworks.
- The FOUC Problem ★
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Dave Hyatt:
FOUC stands for Flash of Unstyled Content. This situation occurs whenever a Web browser ends up showing your Web page’s content without having any style information yet. It’s an interesting technical problem, because when/how a browser ends up committing the crime of FOUCing depends heavily on how the browser’s engine is architected and on interesting assumptions made by Web site authors when designing their sites.
- BusinessWeek Story on ITMS and Movie Downloads ★
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Ronald Grover, reporting for BusinessWeek, claims (a) that Apple is going to announce movie downloads ($15 for new movies, $10 for old ones) at the ITMS later this month; and (b) that Wal-Mart, the nation’s biggest DVD reseller, is pissed/scared about it.
- Wasabi: In-House Programming Language at Fog Creek ★
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This is funny, although I’m not sure if it’s funny “ha-ha” or funny “interesting”. Or both. What happened is that Joel Spolsky posted an essay titled “Language Wars”, wherein he recommends Java, C#, and PHP (and a half-hearted nod to Python) as web app development languages, not because they’re necessarily good but because they’re popular. And he pooh-poohs Ruby on Rails not because it isn’t good but simply because it isn’t long-established. But then at the end of his piece he claims that in-house at Fog Creek, they develop their flagship FogBugz app using “Wasabi”, their own in-house programming language and compiler. The contradiction here — of recommending Java/C#/PHP because they’re so widely used, vs. admitting that they themselves use a language no one else uses — led David Heinemeier Hansson to wonder whether “Wasabi” was a joke. (It isn’t.)