“Whiteboarding document sharing inside of a Web browser—collaborative browsing, they call it. A lot of applications already do this. But what we’re building is one generic architecture that can really handle the back end for all sorts of those applications. Say you’re in Palm Pilot and you want to sync your address book. If you had your address book defined in XML—working with SyncML synching it up to your server—these applications might be using Jabber to send or receive these things on the fly. When you update your address book in one application, it’s automatically pushed out to the server The server announces the change to all the other applications listening to that XML, and they receive those updates. ”
“Using XML to describe parts of a Web app user interface can make it easy to convert the UI for multiple devices via XSL style sheets. The article describes using XML data and XSL style sheets to build the user interface of complex Web applications. A Web calendar sample application demonstrates the basic techniques and concepts. The article also includes more than two dozen code samples that you can
easily extend for your specific requirements.”
i’ve been picking-up the pace of tinkering with linux at home. it’s always a drag because there’s always some application or another that requires m$ and hasn’t been ported to linux. although the list of applications is getting smaller, and it really feels like it’s almost possible to not have to boot up the windows partition on a regular basis, there’s always something. this time groove is messing up my reboot times. although there are problems with groove the file-sharing feature quickly has become indespensible and, of course, there’s no linux client.
lo and behold win4lin looks like it may be a cheap way for me to have my cake and eat it too:
” If you are a Windows user who really wants to migrate to Linux, but you think you’ll feel disenfranchised without your Windows productivity applications, Win4Lin is a must-have. If, on the other hand, you want to run Linux without breaking company rules about which Windows applications you must use for work, then Win4Lin is an absolute necessity.”
here’s a more recent comparison of win4lin and vmware.
sometimes the most simple things are the hardest to see clearly:
“Email will become the killerer app. It continued to work when all else failed. Communication – not consumer storefronts – is the core value provided by the net and email is the star. The best things on the net make things easier and faster. Seems simple, but many of the failed business propositions of the
past year seemed to go in the opposite direction.”
“The purpose of this document is to describe the process of using Linux based tools to setup a server used for streaming MP3 data. With a streaming MP3 server, a wad of MP3’s, and a microphone a user can create their own internet radio show complete with snappy banter.”
although it’s a drag that my new dsl line is asymetric and i won’t likely be able to host it on my box at home because the upload speeds are so pokey. hi. ho.
