ECMAScript for XML

Via webgraphics, a link to an announcement announcing ECMAScript for XML (E4X) (PDF) that I've mentioned a few times.

Geneva, 28 March 2003: ECMA International (ECMA) is completing extensions to the widely used ECMAScript standard, currently being updated to its 4th Edition. The enhancements known as E4X (ECMAScript for XML) standardize the syntax and semantics of a general-purpose, cross-platform, vendor-neutral set of programming language extensions adding native XML support in ECMAScript.

E4X will make it easier for Web developers to use the power of XML structured data, allowing them to leverage their existing skills and knowledge, and reuse familiar concepts, operators and syntax. E4X will also reduce code complexity, time to market and revision cycles, decrease current XML footprint requirements and enable looser coupling between code and external data.

Given the rising popularity of XML and the near universal usage of ECMAScript on the World Wide Web, the Web development community will welcome a simple, familiar, general purpose programming model for XML allowing them to harness the power and flexibility of XML immediately with little or no additional training.

Make sure you check out the only article I know of that explains this stuff.

Update: Here's a discussion on LtU and some documentation for this stuff.

Update: Another discussion on LtU.

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The case of the 500-mile email

Via 0xDECAFBAD, check out this amazing tale of The case of the 500-mile email

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Synergy: like a software KVM

Via Brent, Synergy is one of the coolest pieces of software I've ever heard of:

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.

Update: Mike Gunderloy is happy with Win2VNC, so I thought I'd mention that too.

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