Office 2004

June 4, 2004

Business Week has an article pointing out that Office Mac 2004 may require network admins to take a fresh look at Apple. I think they are right but for a different reason. Certainly the ability to do shared calendaring is a key new feature of Entourage and its integration with Exchange is a welcome addition. However it is the enhanced outlining and notebook functionality of Word that has me excited. After a quick look it looks like it might be the outliner that takes me away from NoteTaker 2003 simply for its integration with other Word documents.

Hooking up LDAP

June 2, 2004

MacDevCenter ran an article last week on setting up LDAP on OS X Server. The article points to a key problem I've had consistently. When looking at the admin interface the server constantly says KDC is not running. This looks to be a reverse domain name mapping problem with making sure that there is agreement between the forward and reverse domains.

Things to come

May 20, 2004

MacNN: Apple Creates New iPod Division, Shuffles Execs - Is this a sign of things to come? Could it have to do with the dispute with Apple Music? Is Apple Computer going to get out of the "music" business by spinning off the iPod and iTunes Music store into a subsidiary? Only time will tell but it would seem like a possible solution in the making.

A cool example

May 6, 2004

The folks over at concord.org have a cool example of using Apple's WebKit API and Cocoa Component technology to create a simple Java web browser. It does a good job of demonstrating how simple it could be to implement a browser interface that understands many standards out of the box.

PHPLens

April 6, 2004

I've been doing some work with PHPLens today. It installs nicely on OS X. I'm running Aaron Faby's Complete PHP. Complete PHP does not include the Zend Optimizer which is required for PHPlens. It is easy to get the optimizer from the ZEND website and install it into the Complete PHP setup. The only thing it takes is changing a few of the configuration lines (which the installer asks you about when you run it).

Decommissioned software

March 1, 2004

Brian Clark wrote MacinTouch today about his decision last week to stop publishing and selling several shareware products. It raises an interesting question as many states have laws about warranties and how long certain items have to be supported. Most (if not all) software avoids this by having licenses that specify that you are purchasing a right to use instead of a product that may fall under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.

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