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Linked List: October 21, 2005

Friday, 21 October 2005

Intro to Pepper Development 

New developer documentation for people who want to write plug-ins for Shaun Inman’s Mint web stats package.

Dvorak Claims Media Bias Against Microsoft 

John C. Dvorak:

As big and as important as Microsoft is, the coverage of the company is quite mediocre. This is particularly true in the mainstream press. The reason for this is that today’s newspaper and magazine tech writers know little about computers and are all Mac users. It’s a fact.

Even if it’s true that most (or “all”, as Dvorak claims) mainstream technology reporters are Mac users, isn’t the most likely explanation that they use Macs because they do know something about computers?

No More Comparisons vs. Intel Processors 

For obvious reasons, Apple’s new Power Mac G5 benchmarks pit the new machines against the previous generation Power Macs, instead of against x86 hardware.

Aperture Uses Web Kit 

Interesting teaser from Safari developer Maciej Stachowiak:

Apple’s new post-production tool for professional photographers, Aperture, joins the growing list of innovative applications that use WebKit. Aperture hasn’t quite shipped yet but in the meantime check out the Gallery and Journal features on the Aperture Quick Tour. Take a look at the videos and screenshots, it looks really spiffy.

But so where is Aperture using Web Kit? Perhaps they’re using it to render the main content area? Like the “light table” layout area? Maybe they’re only using it to power the Web Gallery preview?

The Parrot Post-Mortem 

Dan Sugalski on what went right and what went wrong during his stint as lead architect of Parrot (the still-in-development runtime intended to serve as the foundation for the still-in-development Perl 6). Sugalski walked away from Parrot months ago, but until now hadn’t publicly said why.