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Microsoft have just announced the SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions), which is an implementation of two way item-sharing like a bidirectional RSS.

Simple Sharing extends the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 and Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) 1.0 specifications.

SSE (which was released under Creative Commons!) is particularly useful for scenarios in which there are multiple updates. For example, SSE could be used to share your work calendar with your spouse — either of you could enter new appointments, even if not currently connected.

More infos at the Simple Sharing Extensions FAQs.

Just a quick link to an old hobby of mine:
The Maze Creation and Solving Algorithms Page.

15 months after the first public release, Ruby on Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. For those who haven't heard about it:

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.

Along with Web 2.0 AJAX has been the other big software story of 2005. Here is what Dion Hinchcliffe aka. Mr. Web Two Dot Oh has to say at the freshly mounted AJAX Devloper Journal about Improved Techniques, Tools and Libraries, News and Resources, Critiques and Analysis, and so on a.s.o. ...

Gobby is a free collaborative editor based on libobby, a library which provides synced document buffers. It supports multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

... http://gobby.0x539.de/

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD (O_O)"
    20 END

A compilation of *Hello World programs* designed by various categories of *developer* follows. Great fun!

Must read, must laugh:
http://www.scaryideas.com/project.html

Some nerdy bored guys hacked together a crazy implemention of Unix entirely in JavaScipt. Called JS/UIX.

JS/UIX features a UN*X-like operating environment with no intention of any full POSIX compatibility. Some standard commands have been implemented at full range others with just simple syntax or basic functionality, while new commands have
been added. The only application for now is a simple mplementation of vi (visual editor).

http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/
http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/man.txt
http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/jsuix-documentation.txt

The Game of Life has been around for more than 30 years now, so it seems kind of pointless to implement in Flash. However, Patrick Mineault used a technique which is quite clever and works around Flash's typically dog slow math operations and array access. He simply uses a custom filter combined with blend mode operators to populate the image map. As an extra afterimages can be displayed to give a better impression of the growing pixel folks.

The Game of Life and cellular automata using ConvolutionFilter:
Play / Description

Source Code Search Engine. To lookup in 205,234,850 lines of code: ... http://www.koders.com/