Wednesday, 7th February 2007
Microsoft & OpenID. HUGE news. Microsoft are officially supporting OpenID, through integration with CardSpace.
CardSpace & OpenID: Working together. A more detailed explanation of what the Microsoft OpenID collaboration actually means.
Thoughts on Music. Steve Jobs comes out against DRM, lays the blame squarely on the big four music companies.
If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store.
Useless Account. “Change your password 1000 times a day... For Free!”
Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ’Thoughts on Music’. John Gruber’s analysis.
TurboGears and Pylons (a technical comparison). Ian Bicking explores the differences between the two, and finds that the most significant is probably CherryPy v.s. Paste.
method_missing: best saved for last. My least favourite thing about Ruby is the cultural tendency towards introducing weird new bugs in other people’s code.