Not satisfied with just upgrading Gallery, yesterday I also tried to upgrade Movable Type to version 2.6.5. Unfortunately, I broke my install while doing it. Internal Server Error pages with cryptic messages in the webserver error logfile. All was tainted and evil. Was there a problem with the upgrade instructions? No. Did I FTP files… Read More »
I upgraded my Gallery install today from 1.3.4 to 1.4.1. The new version of this online photo gallery software is really great. There are a lot of new features that will make Gallery much easier to use for community web sites. More important to me was that a lot of the quirks/bugs in the configuration… Read More »
Yet another reason why the further embedding of Microsoft’s insecure web browser into the operating system (e.g., the UI for Windows Update) is a very bad idea.
I got to try out Skype tonight on a random call with someone in Vermont. I was definitely impressed with the sound quality of the call. She said that either she or a friend had used Skype to talk to someone in Israel, and the sound quality was pretty good for that call, too. I… Read More »
The people behind Kazaa and Joltid have taken their P2P expertise to the telephony world with Skype, a P2P telephony application. One of the biggest problems with IP telephony for home users is that most endpoint protocols, e.g. H.323 and SIP, require that you open ports in your firewall, assuming the home user is smart… Read More »
I updated my install of Gallery to 1.3.4 last night. After a much too difficult upgrade, I finally got my photo gallery back online. I still think Gallery is a very nice online photo gallery program, I just wish it was a little easier to install. When I installed Gallery 1.3.3 the first time, it… Read More »
Sun tackles privacy, speech recognition | CNET News.com Both parts of this announcement are very interesting. While presence awareness software from Sun is not that surprising (they already have an instant messaging server and an identity management server), I’m surprised to see them getting involved in speech recognition. Although the article doesn’t mention it, I… Read More »
Okay, so I’ve now updated SoccerPhone to work with the new HTML layout for the live scores page at the MLS website. The cool thing is that I only had to update a few methods in the Python CGI scripts, mostly the regular expressions that I use to locate the game time, scores, elapsed time,… Read More »
SportsML — The Sports Markup Language Over an afternoon capuccino at Peet’s, I read about SportsML in the final issue of New Architect magazine. When I invented a simple XML-based markup for SoccerPhone in around February or March of 2002, I didn’t realize that a more general purpose XML-based markup language for sports was already… Read More »
I went to a web services training class in San Francisco yesterday. It was sponsored by The Mind Electric, Droplets, and MEC. IBM allowed them to set it up at their offices at Market and Fremont. Although I was impressed by TME’s GLUE and by Droplets’ eponymous software, a lot of things went wrong during… Read More »