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Cato'$ Late$tCato'$ Late$tCato'$ Late$t 01/19/2004 01:55 PM "This is either intellectual incompetence or intellectual dishonesty." So wrote Howard Rheingold about Adam Thierer's latest missive from Cato. I wouldn't call it "incompetence," given the custom of his community (DC). Nor, given the standards of his community, is it quite dishonesty. You are where you sleep, and Cato sleeps in the land of lobbyists. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Cato'$ Late$tGrok Headline matches for Cato'$ Late$tLate, Late Surge Hits Online Tax ReturnsLate, Late Surge Hits Online Tax Returns 02/01/2005 09:22 PM five Feb 1 2005 11:47AM GMT Maybe too late, definitely too littleMaybe too late, definitely too little 05/07/2004 02:45 PM Better Late Than NeverBetter Late Than Never 10/29/2003 01:13 AM This pilot fish is up all night troubleshooting a failed payroll job, but the boss sees him stumble in at 9:30 a.m. -- and declares that from now on the IT shop starts work at 8 and stops at 5 -- no exceptions. A little too lateA little too late 05/17/2004 12:05 PM Open Source release of Frontier?. Wow - UserLand plans open-source release of Frontier kernel. The kernel includes things like the UserTalk script interpreter, all the UserTalk builtin functions, the Frontier ODB and the Frontier web server. I don't expect that it will gather as many developers as the big open source scripting languages, but it would be a worthy addition to the community. It used to be cutting-edge, and the system still has a bunch of great ideas, despite having been surpassed in various areas (speed, reliability, debuggability, popularity) by other competitors. Enough to be worth saving, for sure. Just off the top of my head, I can think of some interesting projects to do with the Frontier source: - remove the dependency on the GUI, so it could be run as a Windows service on NT/2K/XP (as modern server software does). - once that's done, a UNIX port might not be so hard. Presumably it's fairly portable already, as right now it runs on two different versions of Mac OS as well as Windows. - perhaps after those two, or perhaps first, someone could rip out UserTalk and make a standalone interpreter, so you can use it the way you might use Perl or Python at the moment. - this is a bit of a long shot, but if you could make the UserTalk interpreter support the Python module API or something similar, a whole bunch of open source libraries (DB access, etc) would suddenly be within reach. Anyway, that's all for now. Announcements of open-source releases usually precede the actual releases by quite a while, so don't hold your breath. When this release actually happens, though, it will be a lot of fun :-) OK - I'll say it. Dave Winer and Frontier were my main introductions to the web, CMS, webapps, personal publishing and open standards. Without Dave - I wouldn't be sitting here today. I can remember Dave telling me about this guy Eric Raymond - and his Cathedral white paper. It really pissed off Dave. He had made his Frontier tool available - for free - in the early 90's and had had direct experience in dealing with people expecting a whole lot for free. Yet Dave knew that by having a strong developer community behind him - that's all that mattered. So Dave spent a few years trying to figure this all out. He then made the decision that he HAD to charge for Frontier - or else he'd never get corporate uptake. This is just as Linux and all the open source stuff was starting. So now jump to years later. Frontier is finally open source - but it's too late. Php and python came along, Zope, Drupal - all sorts of stuff that does exactly what Frontier and..... well let me correct myself - not EXACTLY what Frontier does - as it STILL is a revolutionary IDE - as the integrated outliner makes o-o programming actually culpable. But there are still problems with Frontier - memory leaks aside. And it sure seems like it's five years too late. That doesn't mean folks should'nt use it. My buddy Paolo uses it for his eVectors knowledge management stuff. Radio is built on top of Friontier and gives unprecedented extensibility that I'm sure many a MT user wishes they had. I spent years pitching Frontier as the backend solution to our front-end needs. Most people would look at me and say "Huh?" But I'm proud of Dave and Frontier and I hope that LOTS of college kids give it a try! Too little, too late?Too little, too late? 03/19/2003 10:25 PM CNET: Microsoft plans wireless software push. Every time Microsoft signs up another handset maker, Symbian does too. Last week, it... Late Night with VPNLate Night with VPN 12/02/2003 02:32 PM David Letterman-style, Glynn Taylor of HotSpotVPN.com released his top ten list of reasons to secure your network traffic this holiday season: 10. Your Dad won’t know what web sites you've visited. 9. You will never have to change your email settings again. 8. Your traffic is encrypted at every hotspot; free, paid or stumbled upon. 7. You can improve on WEP without buying new hardware. 6. You can keep the neighbor’s script kiddy brats out of your Internet traffic. 5. You can say you took one more step to prevent identity theft. 4. You can easily encrypt your traffic when attached to someone else’s network. 3. You can safely plug in at a hotel without other guests reading your email. 2. You can prevent "wiretaps" on your VOIP calls. 1. Your Mom won't know what web sites you’ve visited.... No Late FleeceNo Late Fleece 03/30/2005 11:34 AM Blockbuster pays the price for its deceptive "No Late Fees" campaign. Don't Be Late, Integrate!Don't Be Late, Integrate! 08/31/2004 03:16 PM TechWeb Aug 31 2004 6:32PM GMT Not too late to pile into ITNot too late to pile into IT 01/10/2004 01:37 AM Sunday Times South Africa Jan 9 2004 11:22PM ET FC Now: Late to Work?FC Now: Late to Work? 09/08/2004 02:03 PM It rained early this morning in New York City. Hard. So hard that train tunnels flooded, traffic backed up, trains were rerouted, and practically everyone... Late SummerLate Summer 09/06/2004 02:00 AM Vancouver’s summer was good but ended, more or less, August 10th, so when on this last weekend the Sun manifested, we felt recompensed a little. Herewith some illustrated words on flowers that end in -ia, learning about the world, Jericho, harvesting and fishing... Quite frankly, it's too late for thisQuite frankly, it's too late for this 07/12/2004 07:17 PM MadCowering - a weblog about BSE, very nicely done, and, as of today, using a hacked up version of my fedex-tracker to RSS hack. Moo! Meanwhile, there's a new Perl module for the Atom API. Out today, very nice looking.... Too late to rebuild IT?Too late to rebuild IT? 06/18/2004 06:26 AM CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the debate about how to dramatically improve the IT infrastructure needs to get going soon. You'll never get lost (or be late)You'll never get lost (or be late) 11/16/2003 01:27 AM US News Nov 16 2003 0:01AM ET Late NewsLate News 05/29/2002 02:26 PM Working lateWorking late 03/13/2003 10:16 AM Ugh.. Just hanging about, watching the doors on the L9 tapedrive....in a few minutes the backups will start humming away... You're Too Late for This FundYou're Too Late for This Fund 04/15/2005 10:07 AM When one good fund closes, others are still open. Yeah, I know, I'm lateYeah, I know, I'm late 03/15/2003 12:09 PM Guess where I'm going today? The mall. Yeah, doesn't seem that odd does it, well it is when you haven't... IBM makes late DRM bidIBM makes late DRM bid 04/27/2004 07:15 AM xCP system backed by Intel, Matsushita and Toshiba Too Late to Comment?
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