PSIG 50: Thursday November 1st, 2001

This will be the 50th meeting of the Programming Special Interest Group! Maybe I'll bake a cake. But first I'll have to learn how to bake...

BBEdit 6.5 is here, so I'll give you the nickel tour. Now supplied as a single program that runs natively under Mac OS 8.6, 9.x and X, it features an improved grep (perl-compatible) engine, multi language (not just perl) shell scripting support, shell worksheets (you'll just love these) and dynamic authentication for editing those stupid, root-owned textual config files. Finally, I'll show off the new "bbedit" command line tool.

I'll also talk about Log4J. Log4J is simply the best logging package I have ever seen. It's written in Java (with ports to C++ and Python) and is freely available, in source code form, from Apache's Jakarta project. After showing off it main features, I'll demo my latest hack: integration of Log4J with WebObjects.

Thursday, November 01, 2001
12:00 AM