Mono 1.0 released
Novell released version 1.0 of Mono today. Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET framework for use on Linux, Unix, MacOS X and Windows system. Release notes....
June 2004 archives
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Heart rate and sweat loss built-in to a soccer uniform
BBC News reports on a new soccer jersey developed by David Evans at Northumbria University. Silicon strips at the top of a player's back monitor sweat loss. A heart monitor keeps track of the player's vitals. A vibrating patch on the jersey's arm alerts the player to come to the sideline for some attention....
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Visual Studio 2005 Express
Microsoft released beta versions of its Visual Studio 2005 product, including a new line of low cost Express products. All downloads are free for now, but Microsoft does plan to charge for the products in the near future....
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Mac OS X Server 10.4 Tiger serves weblogs
Mac OS X Server version 10.4 (codename Tiger) will feature a weblog server. The Weblog server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable themes, is fully compatible with Safari RSS and enables posting entries using built-in web-based functionality or with weblog clients that support XML-RPC or the ATOM API. The Weblog Server, based on the popular open source project "Blojsom," works with Open Directory for user accounts and authentication....
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Mac OS X Tiger: Safari RSS
Mac OS X Tiger, Apple's next operating system release, will include a RSS aggregator as part of Safari. Support for "RSS 0.9, RSS 1, RSS 2 and Atom." Apple has a movie online demonstrating the new RSS functions. Interesting that Atom is a side note on a supported format list. What does the bundling of an RSS aggregator with a Mac OS mean for independent software developers? Safari RSS, in its current form, looks like Bloglines. Desktop applications will have a year to innovate and make their products more attractive to power users. There is still room for applications...
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Apple OS X 10.4 (Tiger) targeting Microsoft Longhorn
Gizmodo has a picture from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference of banners directly targeted at Microsoft and its upcoming Longhorn operating system....
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NY Times: As Doctors Write Prescriptions, Drug Company Writes a Check
New York Times: "A code of conduct adopted in 1990 by the American Medical Association suggests that doctors should not accept any gift worth more than $100, but the guidelines are widely ignored."...
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Tantek is now at Technorati
Tantek Çelik is now working for Technorati. The move means good things for the Web, as Tantek can utilize indexing semantic web data from the Technorati database. He also has a much shorter commute, allowing more time for side projects. Tantek was formerly Microsoft's Web standards ambassador and responsible for much of the work on CSS....
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SpaceShipOne flight a success
Mike Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne to an altitude 100 kilometers, opened a bag of M&Ms, and returned to the Mojave Desert. The first non-governmental rocket ship to reach the edge of space....
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An amateur in the New York Philharmonic
Daniel J. Wakin of The New York Times played clarinet with the New York Philharmonic. He had 16 days between receiving the music and stepping on stage to perform but luckily he received help from Stanley Drucker. "I was told I would be treated like a regular substitute. The brochure for subs that I was given listed payment of $1,980 for a week of rehearsals and concerts, or $198 for a two-and-a-half-hour rehearsal and $396 for a single concert, although alas, I was not to be paid. (The base salary for a regular player is $104,000, though many earn far...
