Jahr: 2004

Old (May 2000), but Kent Fitch’s thoughts about Topic Maps Visualisation are still interesting: „This document presents some ideas on how a topic map based structure could be browsed by an end-user. It isn’t meant to define a proposed interface – just explore the benefits and drawbacks of one simple option based on the Windows…

Jon Udell on Proxy power: „[…] I’ve been experimenting with a local Web proxy that XHTML-izes and transforms Web pages on the fly. […] Given such a database, the on-the-fly filter could do some clever correlation. Suppose that for the pages I read — and maybe also for each link in those pages — the…

„It’s my Open Source project and I’ll code what I want to.“ Michelle Levesque discusses Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development: „I’ve found the five most important flaws with Open Source software development to be as follows: 1) User interface design 2) Documentation 3) Feature-centric development 4) Programming for the self 5) Religious blindness“

This looks like I should read it once I have the time to do so: Software Engineering for Internet Applications by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet.

Short, but funny: Sam Ruby’s Survival guide to i18n „OK, so we’ve established that you’ve got a tool that you want to ensure is internationalized. The first thing I want you to do is to copy the string Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn into your tool and observe what comes out the other side. If you have a weblogging…

A long paper by Lars Marius Garshol: Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! – Making sense of it all „To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the…

Peter Van Dijck asks: „Why is it so hard to lean topicmaps?“ „Topicmap tools are at the topicmap level, not at the real-life usefulness level. In other words, topicmap tools let you manage, create, and merge topicmaps. But they don’t let you do anything specifically useful outside of the topicmap realm (like create a simple…

Good, practical article on Network Management with Nagios by Richard C. Harlan: „John Deere had to expand network management across a diverse collection of hardware and software. Nagios saved the day.“

Jon Udell on InfoWorld – „Filling in the margins“: „As I watch the students typing at the Dell PCs in the hallway, I realize that none of these kids has ever seen or used a card catalog. That’s mostly a good thing. But when I joined a group of librarians on a panel last month,…

Jim Westbrook on NewsForge: „K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home since she was able to sit in our laps while we were at the keyboard. By the time she was two and a half years old, she was „helping“ us by moving the mouse…