RSS Talks Now Online

The February 24th meeting of SDForum's Web Services SIG focused on web services using RSS and Atom. (My original notes.) Dave Nielsen (the co-chair of the Web Services SIG) has just posted PDF versions of the three presenter's slides: http://www.persistent.com/webservices/sig/ (scroll down to Feb 2004 for the RSS/Atom meeting slides)

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Steve McConnell Keynote

Today I attended the opening keynote for the SD West 2004 Conference featuring Steve McConnell: “Code Complete 2: A Decade of Advances in Software Construction.” I last heard Steve speak two years ago at SD2002. His speaking style matches his books which are full of practical advice for software developers. Following are my notes from his talk.

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Top 100 Children’s Movies

The New York Times recently released The New York Times Essential Library: Children’s Movies which lists their top 100 movies for kids. This is excellent timing as we’ve been trying to move beyond the animated Disney movies. I haven’t bought the book yet, but this is a good list for rentals at least.

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Treo 600 Links

A few good links on the Treo 600 for future reference: MovieRec is a simple movie recording app for the Treo; still under construction, but I tried it out and it worked pretty well Jeff Ray's Treo 600 Page — lots of good software links, tips and tricks, including some hacks like changing the default carrier splash screens Two active Yahoo! Groups: treo and treo600 — I'm not sure which will be the better of the two lists, so I subscribed to both for now

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Posted in: PDA