By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 5, 2007
Monday, 5 March 2007
- Fatal Farm — Television Themes ★
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Humorous revisions of classic TV opening sequences. The Happy Days one killed me.
(Via Steven Frank.)
- iTunes 7.1 ★
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iTunes update adds full-screen Cover Flow and support for Apple TV.
- QuickTime 7.1.5 ★
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Bunch of security and bug fixes.
- LMX 1.0 — Reverse XML Parser ★
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Clever idea from Peter Hosey:
LMX is a reverse XML parser. Whereas most XML parsers (AFAIK, all of them except LMX) parse the XML data from the start to the end, LMX parses it from the end to the start. Thus, while characters are kept in their original order (“foo” will still be “foo”; it will not become “oof”), everything else is reported in the reverse order: elements close before they are opened, and appear from last to first. All this is by design, so that Adium can retrieve the last n message elements without having to parse all the message elements before them.
- How the World Really Shapes Up ★
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Fascinating maps with national borders redrawn not to indicate land mass, but factors such as alcohol consumption, military spending (the U.S. is huge), war deaths (the U.S. nearly disappears) and more. (Via Andy Baio.)
- Adobe Confirms CS3 Launch Date ★
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March 27, with a special event in New York. Update: March 27 is only the announcement date — the software isn’t actually shipping until “later in spring 2007”.
- Jesper on Dashcode ★
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Jesper:
Dashcode is nothing short of a revolution here. To an extent that even Xcode can’t match, you really do everything in the same app; there’s even a little optional workflow list with different tasks and handy shortcuts depending on template. You design your widget, you style the individual elements, you add controls or other “parts” (as Apple terms them), you edit your HTML, you have the initial widget front generated, you specify the Info.plist attributes, you try out the widget, you debug the widget and you deploy the widget. You, snigger, make the whole widget. In other apps, ‘workflow’ is a catchphrase for the marketing materials; in Dashcode, it’s intrinsic.
- FSJ on Patent Litigation ★
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Fake Steve:
Here’s the thing. There are only two kinds of companies: ones that are growing and ones that are dying. Alcatel-Lucent used to be dying companies. Then they died and now they are a zombie company. Already dead but still somehow walking the earth, and trying to feed on the blood of the living.