{"id":1540,"date":"2007-06-24T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:22:36","slug":"the-old-new-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"The old new"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y<\/span>esterday, I downloaded the ‘latest’ Eudora<\/a>: Officially, there’s a team of developers working on the new open-source version of Eudora (based on Thunderbird, or something like that). Progress is slow, I hear (see also the Penelope project page @ Mozilla<\/a>). However, if you have Thunderbird v 2.0 running, there’s a plug-ing available that supposedly remaps some of the Eudora functionality to Thunderbird<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Also old: I noticed that Forte Inc. programmers still frequently push out beta versions of their Agent newsreader<\/a>. Many years ago, I used their ‘Free Agent’ version, which was a lighter less obtrusive version of the ‘paid’ one. There’s no ‘Free Agent’ anymore: as far as I can tell, the only way to get an older version is to do a Google hunt (or use earlier mentioned Thunderbird). Talking about newsreaders, I see that the GNKSA is still around and now, even in version 2.0<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n

Via Digg (or Slashdot, or Reddit), I found the browser time-line1<\/sup>, now in SVG<\/a> (link will work in FF, Opera and Safari, not in IE!). My 2006 timeline<\/a> needs some updating too, I see.\n<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, NASA open-sourced their Robotics framework layer “Claraty”<\/a>. This is all C\/C++ stuff, in case you’re interested. Additionally, at this day, the official website<\/a> still 404s.\n<\/p>\n

And talking about programming, earlier I decided to take a look at Flex and then removed it after reading some of the code samples: I applaud Adobe for releasing some stuff to the public but I’m not impressed. I read that a team of Microsoft (Silverlight) developers looked into Adobe’s material too and weren’t impressed either, only because they thought that this programming language needed a good IDE, which it doesn’t (at this stage). Looking at the Flex examples, I see murky deep and dark areas of conflicting specifications. Maybe this is why Adobe decided to release the language under an open-source license: after all, most of their business relies on their (quality) graphics software and not their programming languages.\n<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> I guess it was Reddit<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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