Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Sam Tregar – Don’t Be Afraid to Drop the SOAP: „The best candidates for SOAP applications are lightweight network applications without significant performance requirements. If your application doesn’t absolutely require network interaction, or if it will deal with large amounts of data then you should avoid SOAP.“

Harry Fuecks: „NetDrive is a free client, provided by Novell, to allow access to Webdav servers from Windows, by mapping a drive.“

Andy Lester – George Bush as programming project leader: „If the war in Iraq was a programming project, Bush would need to be saying, regularly, „I know things aren’t going well, I know that you’ve had a lot of casualties on the team, but I believe we can get through this. Now, here’s what we’re…

Edd Dumbill – Drowned out by keywords: „So here’s a case for the semantic web. It’s stupidly difficult to search for news of my hometown. I live in the beautiful city of York, UK. In most search oriented applications I cannot search for my city. Why? Because „New York“ always matches a search for „York“,…

Nathan Willis – Users care about data, not software: „In working with graphics editors, desktop publishing apps, and Web-based content-management systems, I find almost none that can export to anything besides its native format, and none of them makes even that simple. Some developers clearly do understand the importance of exporting the data. Every new…

„Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads structured records in a variety of input formats (eg. email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. Zebra supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records). It…

Search Tools has a nice article on Faceted Metadata Search: „Full text search wipes out the value of the metadata: a number 3 is just a number, not a size, price, product ID or other meaningful number, as it is in context of the tagged page or database record. Similarly, it’s hard to know whether…