Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

A native MacOS Wiki: „VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It’s like having your own personal hypertext library, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists… Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will…

Daniel H. Steinberg: „The night that divides the two days of tutorials from the three-day conference at the fifth annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention is reserved for the States of the Union addresses. Luminaries from the open source communities of Perl, Python, PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux each spoke for just under a half hour…

„Gizmodo is […] dedicated to everything related to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics.“ (Found it through Infoworld’s Chad Dickerson’s weblog.)

Daniel Smith’s report on „PortLAMP Courses: Monday“, including a nice overview of Sterling Hughes‘ talk on Advanced PHP, and some Jabber comments: „[Jabber] is also good at detecting the presence of people AND machines (think of a buddy list for an app that can open a connection to a Jabber server, or to you personally)“

I’d like to have overLIB popups looking like comic strip bubbles – to display footnotes, explain acronyms, and allow multiple link destinations.

It’s been years now since I last looked at how to generate PHP API documentation in HTML directly from the sources. I came to use PHPDoc – which worked after some hacks, but wasn’t really nice. Now the right tool for the job seems to be phpDocumentor – must find some time to check this…

Ray Ozzie: „What will it be like to build applications for a world in which mobility is of primary importance? The three principal dimensions that must be considered are usage mobility and infrastructure mobility and participant mobility.“

„CONESYS, the COntent NEtwork SYStem, provides Open Source Software for Peer-to-Peer Content and Knowledge Management.“ (Found it on the LinuxTag site.)

Commercial software and not available yet, but nice looking!

Morphon looks similar to XMLSpy, but it’s free (and written in Java).