Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

„Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from…

Robert Kaye – Language musings: „Having gotten used to Python over the last few months, I found myself cursing Java every time I had to do a format conversion. Why do I have to instantiate a number of objects just to convert from a String to an int? First, I have to convert to an…

„The dbacl project consists of a set of lightweight UNIX/POSIX utilities which can be used, either directly or in shell scripts, to classify text documents automatically, according to Bayesian statistical principles.“

Macworld UK – Macworld UK – Simplicity is ’next big thing‘ in IT – Economist: „The Economist Magazine this week has published an IT survey, which declares the single message of simplicity Apple to have preached since its inception as „the next big thing“. „The next thing in technology is not just big but truly…

„Sharedance is a high-performance server that centralize ephemeral key/data pairs on remote hosts, without the overhead and the complexity of an SQL database. It was mainly designed to share caches and sessions between a pool of web servers. Access to a Sharedance server is trivial through a simple PHP API and it is compatible with…

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview: „Now in Tiger, Cocoa can manage your data objects themselves through the power of Core Data, providing automatic undo/redo support, additional user interface synchronization, and data consistency, correctness, and speed enhancements when it’s time to write to disk. Core Data gives you the ability to create a description…

„Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into…

Jamie Zawinski outlines a hypothetical program – vast volumes of email: „There are other interesting data-visualization possibilities here as well; since really what we have is nodes and connections between them, tools like graphers and histogram charts might be applicable as well, to answer questions like * show me a graph of the age-distribution of…

David Sklar – Isaac Newton, sha1, and the Semantic Web: „Which made me think: is the Semantic Web the 21st century equivalent of Diderot’s Encyclopédie? What lessons have we learned (or not) from previous generations‘ attempts to taxonomify (and neologize? 🙂 all information?“

Jotspot – a Wiki plus forms, e-mail + RSS integration, optional XHTML markup, file attachments. Unfortunately, it’s a service (ASP), not a software you could install on your own server… How JotSpot Is Different: „Using a simple scripting markup, JotSpot allows you to create Forms. Forms bring structure to your wiki pages. Forms define fields…