Important acronyms

8 October 2003

Apple have announced that Panther will go on worldwide release on Friday 24 October, 2003. You’ve gotta get some of that big cat action. i was rather amused by this on the bottom of the UK announcement page

Panther will include a final X11 window server for Unix-based apps, improved NFS/UFS, FreeBSD 5 innovations as well as support for popular Linux APIs, IPv6 and other important acronyms.

On a similar note, I firmly assert that Tom Coates’ illness is merely mother nature’s just punishment for him purchasing a nice new PowerBook, when other undeserving little twits want one far more. (Get well soon, Tom).

Another important acronym is MySQL. Okay, it’s not strictly an acronym, but it is very important and bares particular significance to this site, as all the lovely words that trot onto the screen are retrieved from a MySQL database by the ever-capable Textpattern. The “Back soon” message that has adorned this site over the last couple of hours is testament to how important that pseudo-acronym is. I shall be hacking a more informative error system into Textpattern in the next few days, so that next time the database server goes down you’ll still get some useful content. Sorry ‘bout that, folks.

About Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

Comments

§ Jesse: Only thing Panther doesn’t have is a remote desktop app built in.. XP has it.. why can’t Panther?

hehe now I can order that new powerbook ;)
§ tomjleeds: See, when Apple release updates, they actually change things and add things, unlike Microsoft who just fix the things they ****** up in the first place!

Any idea when we’re going to get the chance to use the desirable Textpattern?

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