Jahr: 2008

Jason Fried – Feeling the pulse with Queen Bee: „At the top of our Queen Bee admin screen we have a stream showing the latest activity across Basecamp, Backpack, Highrise, and Campfire. […] Everyone at 37signals has access to this stream of signups, upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations. It’s a great way to get a feel…

Stoyan Stefanov – Simultaneuos HTTP requests in PHP with cURL: „Using the curl_multi* family of cURL functions you can make those requests simultaneously. This way your app is as slow as the slowest request, as opposed to the sum of all requests. And that’s something.“

Bolinfest – Saved by xmpp4moz!: „I downloaded the SamePlace Suite Firefox extension, which is a small suite of applications built on top of xmpp4moz. I fired it up and discovered that it contained a nice Jabber client written in XUL with explicit support for Google Talk. The only remaining question was: how did it work?“

Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog – I will Get That Nobel Peace Prize Yet!: „The $100 laptops we keep hearing about will eventually give Internet access to even small villages. Imagine having a pen pal in some tiny African village. You learn that all they need is one of those foot-operated water pumps for…

Eugueny Kontsevoy – Web vs Desktop Nonsense: „If a web application does not really need to run inside the browser, why does everybody expect Microsoft to ship an online version of their popular Office suite in the fashion similar to Google Docs? Technically speaking, to release a viable web version of Office they may just…

Jason Fried at 37signals – Preview 3: Backpack Page Changes: „When you have multiple people contributing to a page it’s handy to know when and what changed since your last visit. We’ve made this really easy with the new Backpack. If you visit a page that changed since your last visit you’ll see a sticky…

Calais powered by Reuters – Frequently Asked Questions: „From a user perspective it’s pretty simple: You hand the web service unstructured text (like news articles, blog postings, your term paper, etc) and it returns semantic metadata in RDF format. What’s happening in the background is a little more complicated. Using natural language processing and machine…

Parand Tony Darugar – Convert Documents From doc/ppt/xls/etc to html/pdf/flash/etc Using OpenOffice.org: „The magic solution is simply to use JODConverter with OpenOffice. In particular, I downloaded OpenOffice 2.3.1 for OS X, started it as “headless”: /Applications/OpenOffice.org\ 2.3.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice -headless -accept=“socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;“ -nofirststartwizard & and then used JODConverter commandline to convert files: alias ooconv=’java -jar /Users/parand/Packages/jodconverter-2.2.1/lib/jodconverter-cli-2.2.1.jar‘ ooconv SomePowerpointFile.ppt…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly radar – Reuters CEO sees „semantic web“ in its future: „What I think does ultimately matter is the ability of professional media to build specialized interfaces and vertical data stores that are suited to their niche, hopefully harnessing data and services from the consumer internet, and mashing them up with specialized,…

Elliotte Rusty Harold at IBM developerWorks – The future of XML: „Of course, the most important conversion isn’t from OpenDoc to OOXML or vice versa: it’s a down conversion from either OpenDoc or OOXML to XHTML. The HTML exporters in OpenOffice and Microsoft Office are uniformly atrocious. Look for third-party developers to pick up the…