Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

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…