Mental notes to myself

It’s a great day. At least for me.
The well anticipated mySQL 5.0 is out!
Go get it. Use it.

It is reported that entertainment media groups are accepting Blu-Ray.

slashdot reports

It was about time that somebody really care about an open source flash.
I wonder how Adobe is feeling about it.

Congrats to Aral Balkan and his team.

It’s said that MySQL 5 production version will be out on November.

Here is a new thing from Yahoo.

Yahoo Podcasting

Here is a great article why C should be prefered sometimes, which I totally agree:

Here is the rest : link

This is an interesting article about Noguchi Yukio’s filing system.

Folks. Watch out for the video ipod coming up in a few weeks.

Update: this is just a photoshop picture of what a video ipod can be. not an actial video ipod.

Kim Goodwin’s nice article about killing a design reminded me that these analysis can be applied to any kind of software project.

Here is the killer 10:
1. Poor choice of pilot project
2. Not having one consistent project owner
3. Incomplete design or insufficient design communication
4. Not getting buy-in from top executives
5. The wrong people doing design
6. Not committing resources to design
7. Failure to separate innovation from renovation
8. The inmates are running the asylum
9. Unrealistic expectations
10. Unhealthy corporate culture

read the rest here: link

XML User Interface Language (XUL) is one of the not wellknown treasures of the browsers who understands it. e.g.: Firefox.
Google recenty did an XUL interface. Looks pretty nice. Worths checking it with Firefox and view the source.