Archive for August, 2006



Here’s a PlaybackTime interview (:30-ish) with Paul Colton, the founder of Aptana.
[audio:http://playbacktime.com/audio/Paul%20Colton%20interview.mp3]
Listen to learn about:
* Paul’s pionneering pre-Apatana history
* His work with Xamalon, and how Ajax trumps Flash as a runtime philosophy
* What Aptana shares and doesn’t share with Eclipse
* An emerging JavaScript standard called ScriptDoc, and how it helps Aptana support so many Ajax/JavaScript [...]

Even though I hadn’t really used it in a while, I’ve faithfully upgraded Dreamweaver with each new release. A few weeks ago I dusted it off, thinking that it’d be the perfect tool to start a new project I’m toying with.
Ooof. Dreamweaver has made progress over the years, but not enough. It’s slow, has a [...]

Ahhh. Another week, another anti-DRM…well, **screed**…by author, blogger, and Disney fetishist enthusiast [Cory Doctorow][Cory].
In _[Apple's Copy Protection Isn't Just Bad for Consumers, it's Bad for Business][Cory article]_ — more honestly titled _How iTunes Screws the Music Industry and the Public_ on his blog — Cory points his blamethrower at Apple and boldly claims that DRM [...]