Jahr: 2005

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – The importance of interaction data: „Rather than consulting a dictionary to propose alternatives to misspelled words, Google instead mines its own database for patterns of use. If statistics show that a query for „Boswerth“ is likely to be followed by a query for „Bosworth,“ the search engine will make that…

Mac Geekery – Core Data as a Cheap Database: „Core Data is easy enough non-programmers can handle a basic database with it. No, really, it is. Let’s go through a simple no-code project to log phone calls.“

Nathan Torkington – The Zing in Zimbra: „The server platform is the Microsoft Exchange killer we’ve all wanted. There’s an ocean of people who want the Exchange feature set without the Exchange nightmares: administration, performance, and security. The folks at Zimbra have released it as open source, not just the Ajax client and the toolkit…

„The LOGOS Machine translation system is one of the largest and most powerful among the commercial machine translation systems. […] The open source version of LOGOS will be available under the name OpenLogos. […] It is planned to release the OpenLogos code base after final approval by the LOGOS owners, GlobalWare AG, by midst of…

Kendall Clark – SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web: „RDF is pretty foundational to the Semantic Web, and it’s got a data model, a formal semantics, and a concrete serialization (in XML). What it didn’t have till lately was a standard query language. Imagine relational algebra and RDBMSes without SQL. Pretty hard to imagine.…

Peter Norvig – Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years: “Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. […] The conclusion is…

Henri Sivonen – HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML: “There seem to be developers who think that well-formedness is awfully hard – if not impossible – to get right when producing XML programmatically and developers who can get it right and wonder why the others are so incompetent. I assume no one…

François Joseph de Kermadec – I’m wikied out: “Wikis and Forums are awesome. They allow the community to improve the documentation, build upon it, provide feedback to the developer. But they cannot replace the documentation. By definition, a Wiki is written by someone who feels comfortable enough with the application to need “tips“, forums require…

Marc Hedlund – Etsy’s Excellent Visualizations: “I had seen Etsy, the marketplace for handmade goods, but not its excellent visualizations, until Upendra showed them to me this week. Check these out: * Etsy ColorSpace * The 3d Etsy Time Machine (I love that the clock runs backwards) * The Etsy Geolocator“

“The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding („TNG“) is a powerful way to manage and display your genealogy data on the Internet, all without generating a single page of HTML. Instead, your information is stored in MySQL database tables and dynamically displayed in attractive fashion with PHP.”