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The Javascript strikes back

Today, I read some interesting things about XmlHttpRequest and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript with XmlHttpRequest) (not this AJAX ;)

Here are some good links.
* XmlHttpRequest on xml.com
* AJAX in wikipedia
* Examples using XmlHttpRequest
* W3C DOM Level 3 with features similar to XmlHttpRequest
* Microsoft XmlHttpRequest documentation

And some projects.
* the sarrisa library
* the XHConn library
* the Sajax project

XmlHttpRequest was introduced in IE 5.0, but now that the architecture has a name (AJAX), it seems that everybody is talking about that.

One month with Mac OS X

After some years of using Linux (I think my first distrib was a RedHat 5.1, but I'm not sure) I've switched last month to Mac OS X.

The change between a Dell Inspiron + Fedora Core 3 and a PowerBook 17 + Panther is radical.

• with Linux the suspend to disk is not very easy to set up, in contrast with OS X, I never stop my PB !

• a clean filesystem, it's UNIX, but it's clean.

• a very good GUI, on Linux I'm used to use GNOME that has learnt a lot from OS X, but now with the original, it's better.

• a very well design hardware, all the PC laptops look ugly to me now !

Really, when software and hardware are designed in the same time, by the same people, it makes the difference.

I've added some software to make OS X more "geek friendly"

• a virtual desktop manager Virtue (thanks Yann for this comparative)

• a launcher (and more) QuickSilver

• an SSH tool Fugu

• a monitoring tool MenuMeters

• THE browser, Firefox

• an Email client Thunderbird, but it's still very buggy, and not very integrate with the OS, on this point, Linux and Evolution 2 are better.

The most important drawback of this switch is the Terminal, I've tried different solutions, Terminal, iTerm, xterm (from X11), but nothing works as well as with Linux. Maybe with Tiger in a few days :)

My blog is moving to Movable Type

My blog is moving from my old blogging system, aihomepage.free.fr, to Movable Type. It's in Beta yet, there is a lot of things in my TODO list, and the photo gallery is the next :)