Journal Toy G's Journal: Quick News
Had a couple of interesting "unreal" experiences, that I'll soon describe here...
The jEdit "Sourcerer" plugin development (aimed at Dreamweaver source-control compatibility) is going well, I hope to release the first version in a couple of weeks, if my assignements don't take much time...
Ah, you MUST see Vagabonding.com. It's one of the best sites I've seen in months.For you geeks out there, it also has really beautiful RSS, with photos.
This takes me to another thing. The semantic web is growing, but it seems the real developers are not drooling for it. The good (and free, as in speech) news aggregator are all written in new, high level languages (.NET, pure java), no one seems to bother coding a "simple good ol' " windows version. Syndirella and NewsGator (a great plugin for news aggregation in Outlook) require the f***ing .NET framework, 20 mb that I'm not going to download. Sorry, I'm not going to slow down my machines and all my apps just for a news aggregator. For the same reason, I'm not going to run a server like AmphetaDesk or Flock/Jetty, what I really need is just a client application to fire up when *I* want (and that won't crash like BottomFeeder, HeadlineViewer or HotSheet). Another service in background? No thanks.
And yes, I could pay for a commercial service, like Radio... but I'm trying to have as many open source programs as possible, for ethical (and legal, you know software piracy IS a crime) reasons.
Almost two years ago, excited by this "new" RSS thing (heaven for a news-junkie like me), I was planning to write a client. The project didn't really start, basically because other things were happening in my life. My friend Giulio wrote a small java app, then he went fed up with the stupid Sun htmlToolkit, and he too had other things to do. In the meantime, the "blog phenomenon" has come up in the press (and when the press comes, it means is really big), but a good client is still not there :(
NewsIsFree will remain my choice for a long time, I fear.
The jEdit "Sourcerer" plugin development (aimed at Dreamweaver source-control compatibility) is going well, I hope to release the first version in a couple of weeks, if my assignements don't take much time...
Ah, you MUST see Vagabonding.com. It's one of the best sites I've seen in months.For you geeks out there, it also has really beautiful RSS, with photos.
This takes me to another thing. The semantic web is growing, but it seems the real developers are not drooling for it. The good (and free, as in speech) news aggregator are all written in new, high level languages (.NET, pure java), no one seems to bother coding a "simple good ol' " windows version. Syndirella and NewsGator (a great plugin for news aggregation in Outlook) require the f***ing
And yes, I could pay for a commercial service, like Radio... but I'm trying to have as many open source programs as possible, for ethical (and legal, you know software piracy IS a crime) reasons.
Almost two years ago, excited by this "new" RSS thing (heaven for a news-junkie like me), I was planning to write a client. The project didn't really start, basically because other things were happening in my life. My friend Giulio wrote a small java app, then he went fed up with the stupid Sun htmlToolkit, and he too had other things to do. In the meantime, the "blog phenomenon" has come up in the press (and when the press comes, it means is really big), but a good client is still not there
NewsIsFree will remain my choice for a long time, I fear.
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