By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: June 5, 2007
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
- Gus Mueller: ‘Adobe Reader 8.1 Is Out!’ ★
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Dear Adobe Reader team: We’re laughing at you, not with you.
- New York Times on Bertrand Serlet and His Microsoft Counterpart, Steven Sinofsky ★
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Interesting profile by John Markoff in today’s Times, comparing Apple’s Bertrand Serlet (senior VP for software engineering) with Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, who’s leading their Windows development:
One software developer who has worked at both companies — and asked not to be identified because he still consults for Microsoft — compared the two men’s approaches to the difference between martial marching band music and jazz.
Mr. Sinofsky’s approach, he said, is meticulously planned out from the beginning, with a tight focus on meeting deadlines — a crucial objective after the delay-plagued Vista project — but with little room for flexibility. In contrast, the atmosphere inside Apple’s software engineering ranks has been much more improvisational.
- Objective-C Guide for C++ Programmers (PDF) ★
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From C++ to Objective-C is a free PDF e-book by Pierre Chatelier. Looks like a great introduction to Objective-C. (Via Scott Stevenson.)
- MarsEdit 1.2 ★
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Growl, Picasa, and Vox support added to Red Sweater’s weblog editor.
- NetNewsWire 3.0 ★
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Huge new update to the Mac’s leading feed reader. New features include a revamped user interface (including iTunes-style “feed cover art” — effectively, a thumbnail of the home page for the feed), significant performance improvements, and a new combined view that intermingles headlines with feed content.
- Camino 1.5 ★
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Major new version of Camino, the Mozilla-based web browser designed just for Mac OS X. New features include session saving (quit Camino, relaunch, and the windows and tabs you left open are restored), feed detection, and support for the OS X spelling checker. Another cool new feature: Camino can share keychain entries with Safari.
- Movable Type 4 Beta ★
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First major new version of Movable Type since 3.0 back in 2004. The biggest news is that Six Apart plans to release the source code to MT 4 under the GPL later this year. (Markdown is now part of the default MT 4 installation — nice.)
- Apple Updates MacBook Pros ★
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2.2 and 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processors, faster AirPort cards, better graphics cards, and support for up to 4 GB of RAM (up from 3 GB in the previous models). The 15-inch displays are now LED-based, and the 17-inch displays are available with 1920 × 1200 resolution (compared to the standard 1680 × 1050); glossy screens are still optional on all models.
Let the tea-leaf-reading begin: Why would Apple announce these today rather than wait until next week’s WWDC keynote? Answer: They must have plenty of other announcements for WWDC.