RasterWeb!

Thanks Lifehacker! Thanks for this bit on iTunes 4.9:

Videoblogger Pete at The Last Minute posted a screencast of these steps as well.

Just to set the record straight (because that’s what we do here) it was Duncan at The Last Minute who posted about Video Blogs in iTunes 4.9 and included the text from an email I sent explaining things…

So Lifehacker got it slightly wrong. While I might be “Videoblogger Pete” over at tinkernet or the Videoblogging group, Duncan is the guy at The Last Minute, and he did the screencast. Oh, and I’m also the guy here at RasterWeb! in case you didn’t notice…

Ok, I took the output from GeoURL, which is RSS 1.0, and through the magic of Perl and regex (I know, two problems…) output an RSS 2.0 feed with the geo:stuff in it, and pass it through the Yahoo! Maps API and get this GeoURL/Yahoo! Maps thingy…

I’m really liking the Yahoo! Maps API, since it builds on RSS 2.0 using namespaces. It’s trivial to do neat stuff with it. More to come…

(Update: Urgh… It seems to sometimes not work, which I am going to blame completely on Yahoo! ;)

Update: Try these links instead:

• Link 1
• Link 2
• Link 3

But I hate Microsoft and don’t want to help you out…

’nuff said!

Dave, Dave, Dave… There seems to be some confusion. Licenses are like women, they are beautiful, but very hard to understand… Many men have tried, many men have failed…

In a recent podcast, Dave stared that his new software would be GPL and that you could do what you wanted with it, but that “you’re not free to make it commercial, because it’s GPL.”

The GNU General Public License does not restrict software to being non-commercial!

So I present to you today’s reading, courtesy of Richard Stallman and gnu.org. Follow these links, do the reading, and then come back and tell me that the GPL restricts you from using code in commercial software.

• IP: The GPL and commercial development
• Categories of Free and Non-Free Software
• Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding

Here’s a bit more reading: Open Source Licensing. Choose a license that does what you want it to do, and make sure it does what you think it does…