"...all the CSS solutions i've seen so far have this problem, unless they're designed very carefully so that a) nothing can overlap, or b) if something does overlap, it doesn't wreck the layout. blue robot is an example of this approach (sidenote: and the design is gorgeous). but this puts some serious limits on the kinds of layouts you can achieve.

we're always open to discussion about this; feel free to use the comment feature or send us email with the contact form. and we're certainly not opposed to the concept of using pure CSS for layout. but a cost/benefit analysis of the table/div equation still comes out in favor of tables, for real-world implementations."

"In this article, I'd like to show you how easy it is to put together a simple system for pager-style notification of incoming mail, using some standard tools, Perl and, of course, Jabber."

"It seems to me that Jabber is a "meta-technology". By that I refer to the fact that it enables other technologies to work together. It hides the complexities of moving structured (yet often disparate) data between network endpoints. In a sense, Jabber is like a telephone. When I pick up my phone to call my wife at work, I don't have to understand anything about how my voice gets to her -- I only worry about "addressing" the data to her and then talking when the connection is made. Jabber provides this same capabilities to applications and services. Indeed, it provides precisely what SOAP/XMLRPC doesn't -- a specific ability to get data from point A to point B. Could I be so bold as to say that Jabber could be the dialtone for XML applications?"

" Increasing interest has been expressed in using the Jabber architecture as a middleware layer for application-level communication. This is a natural and logical progression in Jabber's growth."

"With Hailstorm, Microsoft wants to position IM as a Web services development platform instead of as a single-purpose application. In addition to IM, users would be able to do Web-based e-mail, real-time stock quotes and calendar functions.

One developer who plans to attend the meeting, but requested anonymity, said Microsoft is looking to extend the capabilities of IM as a standalone application and turn it into a software infrastructure that can be used to build many types of applications. "

"I have a feeling that now that as Visual Studio.NET beta 2 is preparing to hit the "shelves" and it's strong support for XML and SOAP, we're going to see a massive amount of SOAP/WebServices being embedded into applications, and the days of form "frustration" are slowly going to disappear behind us."

"The Microsoft marketing machine is starting up. It will be interesting to see how software developers react to their Microsoft's pitch. We all are starting to realize that software is increasingly going to be built using a distributed application framework model, but not many people have realized that Microsoft's .NET is really just their version of what Mozilla has been doing since 1998."

""We're making it so you can write services in the Linux environment and bring them to the (Microsoft) .Net platforms, as well as do the reverse," said de Icaza.

"We think Microsoft.Net looks sweet," de Icaza continued. "Microsoft is supporting SOAP for creating .Net services. But we will let these services become available to Linux.""

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"The idea of a wireless network was right on my wavelength. "You mean I can get Ethernet-speed web browsing, file transfers, and the whole works -- with nary a cable connection in sight -- from as far away as the coffeehouse across the street? Um, I'll be working from there this morning. IM me if you need me.""

"so what *is* it? it's corporate identity management at it's worst. relatively respectable companies who take themselves too seriously, and clearly have too much money to burn decide that what they really need is a corporate sound. usually something aspirational, to motivate the troops. unfortunately, they tend to take the whole thing just a little bit too seriously. they spend rediculous sums of money commissioning a corporate anthem. something they can play at office parties, conferences and secretly through headphones before they stride confidently into meetings. with few exceptions they eventually realise just how cringe-worthy their little tunes are, and attempt to bury them forever. they should be so lucky..."

"Creating an XML-RPC Web service with Perl is almost as easy as CGI scripting. This article will bring you up to speed on what XML-RPC is and how to use Perl's Frontier::RPC library to create simple clients and servers."

"WHY?! Why should I be force-fed a big pile of shit that I have no interest in? It's like going to a diner, asking for a cheeseburger and having to pay for the cheeseburger, a hot dog, and everything else the cook had on the grill at that time. It's wrong. The dependency madness will only lead us to a scalability nightmare in the not-too-distant future, and I for one want nothing to do with that."

"An important point about my relationship with HP is that the decisions I make can't drive the company into bankruptcy. I have to find the balance between promoting free software and making money."

"In this first tutorial of his series on using scripting languages to manipulate and transform XML documents, Binary Evolution's Parand Tony Daruger takes you through the first steps of using these techniques with Perl. You'll see a method for transforming XML to HTML, followed by a simple stock trading application that uses Perl, XML, and a database to evaluate trading rules. You can apply the techniques using other scripting languages too, including Tcl and Python."

""On an individual user, we can see what you're e-mailing, where you are surfing, if you send anything to be printed, collaborate with anyone on a Word document, access or change the database -- basically everything you're doing on the network," she said.

Although the program gives broad access, lab analysts are careful to only scrutinize information pertinent to the case at hand, she said.

SilentRunner's "collector" recognizes over 1,400 different protocols. It can detect and analyze Web pages, e-mail, digital video and sound files, spreadsheets, word documents, FTP, instant messages, passwords -- you name it."