Mainsoft Visual Mainwin allows Visual Basic and C# developers to compile J2EE bytecode. It also supports ASP.Net and ADO.Net class libraries. Supports BEA Weblogic 8.1, IBM Websphere 5.1 and Tomcat 5.

Apple now has a RSS information page. NetNewsWire and FeedDemon get a mention too.

Tonight I attended ConCon, a one hour briefing of talks and ideas from O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Kevin Marks introduced Technorati‘s services. Ralf Muehlen introduced me to SFLAN. Cory Doctorow thinks that e-books now are where online music was in 1996: no one saw a reason why anyone would give up the tangible quality of a work. Kevin Burton is working on a plugin for Mozilla to export Orkut data for import into other formats such as FOAF. Scott Draves talked about his Electric Sheep project which is a very cool distributed genetic graphics engine. Tantek gave a quick overview of his semantic web presentation. Extensible Open XHTML Outlines was new to me. Rx Gallery was packed. I was amazed given how quickly the event was thrown together. WiFi was plentiful and Mac users were using ZeroConf to introduce themselves to each other over iChat. I am surprised there are not more ZeroConf applications available.

Scientists believe that love is little more than an influx of bonding hormones, namely oxytocin and vasopressin, according to The Economist. “[A] relatively small area of the human brain is active in love, compared with that involved in, say, ordinary friendship.” “Parts of the brain that are love-bitten include the one responsible for gut feelings, and the ones which generate the euphoria induced by drugs such as cocaine. So the brains of people deeply in love do not look like those of people experiencing strong emotions, but instead like those of people snorting coke. Love, in other words, uses the neural mechanisms that are activated during the process of addiction.”

Next week is a small event in San Francisco, ConCon, for all of us who could not go to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference last week. RX Gallery 132 Eddy Street @ Mason Monday, February 16, 7-10 P.M.