PSIG 15: Thursday June 4, 1998

We met in the temporary office, which has a smaller room than the old office, but was smoke-free. I posted signs and folks seemed able to find the place with minimal challenge.

This was the first meeting is over 7 months. We went around the room to catch up. One has a new job, one has left the state and two new faces.

Mark Thalman dished the dirt on regular expressions. The consensus was that CodeWarrior's regex engine sucks while BBEdit's is decent, if not of Perl-quality. Yet again it was brought up that someone should give a talk on Perl. I agree!

I gave a blonde-joke-ridden presentation on XML. Olof was not amused and sat very sternly throughout the presentation (just kidding!). It was my first presentation done up in HTML. Since it went so well, I'm also doing up my MacHack presentation in HTML.

Speaking of MacHack, three PSIG folks are going: Olof, Mark Thalman and myself. At our customary bash Apple session, we whined how (as Fred Bockmann put it) "went crazy for a few years". They developed a dozen new technologies without maintaining the crown jewel : the Mac OS. Well, Mac OS X is all about updating the base, so things are looking up. Mike Menze brought an actual size poster of the new PowerBook G3 with the 14.1 inch screen. I placed my PowerBook Duo over the picture of the screen -- that screen alone is slightly larger than my entire Duo!

Thursday, June 04, 1998
12:00 AM