01.03.05
The Tech World Is On Fast Forward
Man, things are really moving fast in my little corner of the tech world. In the last 24 hours I’ve seen the following:
1) My 12-year-old niece has become comfortable with FTP in a 10 minute session, as she starts building her own web site from scratch. She picked up how to do external style sheets from a bit of sample code along with font and background colors, plus how to access images that are in a subdirectory.
2) My 10-year-old nephew compiled his first Java program. From a command line. A basic “Hello World” type thing, but it’s the kind of thing that is where you start and no doubt he’ll be able to follow along in his intro to Java book.
3) Paul Guyot, Newton programmer extraordinaire, has released an early alpha of a Newton Hardware emulator that runs the Newton ROMS in an X11 environment. No kidding. This is incredible. This pushes his work 10 times further than any other emulator project that has ever seen the light of day in the past 8 years.