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September 28, 2004
LiveServer Preview
My preview of LiveServer has been published at InfoWorld. I'm working on a full-blown review now.
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Perl Programmers Wanted
I've had two different companies approach me in the last week and ask me if I knew where they could find good Perl programmers. Both are paying gigs with people I trust. If you know Perl and you're looking for a new opportunity, let me know.
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New My Yahoo! Beta
Yahoo! has a new beta of their My Yahoo! service available (thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for the link). To use it, just click on the "try new beta" link at the top of your My Yahoo! page. Not only does it incorporate the RSS reading features that have been in beta since January, but the layout is better and the tools cleaner. One thing I really like is that the stories (RSS or otherwise) will display a short summary in addition to the headline so that you can tell if you want to click out or not. As Jeremy says, "The content model is open now." I suspect this will cause more news organizations and other Web sites to take a hard look at RSS. For example, neither the Salt Lake Tribune nor the Deseret News have RSS feeds for their stories. But if they did, their content could be on Yahoo! I've talked with the CIO of the Deseret News about it before. I'm not sure I communicated the point all that well. Maybe now the point will be obvious.
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Explaining RSS
I find myself explaining RSS a lot these days. When I spoke at the IT Seminar last week only a handful of the hundred or so students who were there raised their hand when I asked if they knew what RSS was. The problem is that its like trying to explain HTML, rather than the WWW. Rafe Needleman of c|net News has a video that explains RSS along with some other resources. I've added it to my RSS resources page.