Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Usability still improving — improvement still needed: „Dialogs are annoying, in general, because there’s usually very little actual „dialog“ happening in a dialog box; it’s more of a monolog. It’s the programmer who wrote the software telling you what to do next, rather than the reverse.“

Tim Bray – PubHubSunday: „I see PubSubHubbub, as much as anything, as an attempt to capture Twitter’s pattern of information flow in a reproducible, interoperable way. […] Hooking up a publishing system to the PubSubHubbub machinery is damn easy; I know because I just did it. You have to put <link> element(s) in your Atom…

Ben Lorica at O’Reilly Radar – Mechanical Turk app on the iPhone Provides Work for Refugees: „The turks in the refugee camps are recent graduates of Samasource’s computer training program. Rather than sitting idly while they wait to be employed, they earn money performing simple computer tasks for real companies. On the other hand, Give…

Gojko Adzic cites Elisabeth Hendrikson’s keynote at the Agile Testing Days – Seven key agile testing practices for releasable software: „Agile software teams deliver value in the form of releasable software at frequent regular intervals (at least monthly), at a sustainable pace, while adapting to the changing needs of the business. […] Bottom line is…

Elad Elrom at InsideRIA – AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview: „File promises is a new API (URLFilePromise) that allows you to access resources at a certain URL and drag them out of the AIR application as a file promise into the local machine. Once the files are dropped the request will be made to download…

Ajaxian – View Source Tutorial: Fancy Web Page Using HTML5, CSS, and SVG: „I love this example because it shows a few things. First, that SVG is definitely not dead; this works on every browser but IE — that doesn’t sound like a dead technology to me. Second, this example is much better done with…

Arno Gourdol – MAX 2009: Adobe AIR 2.0 and iPhone support: „At MAX this week we’re showing a preview of AIR 2.0, codenamed Athena. We’ve added tons of cool new features, but first, we’ve worked on reducing the memory and CPU usage for a lot of AIR applications. We’ve also listened to what our developers…

Tom Jackson at the New York Times – Announcing Custom Times Feeds: „About a year ago, we launched the Times Article Search API and the TimesTags API, two systems that allow developers to search our extensive collection of articles and to identify the canonical terms we use to describe them. Together, these APIs provide developers…

Mike Milinkovich – Collaboration Is Just Good Business: „We all collectively waste massive amounts of human and commercial capital by building too much software. The sheer amount of wastefully duplicated effort endemic to the ICT industry is staggering. […] In my view, the future impact of open source on the ICT industry is not simply…

Dan Gillmor at guardian.co.uk – The new rules of news: „Transparency would be a core element of our journalism. One example of many: every print article would have an accompanying box called „Things We Don’t Know,“ a list of questions our journalists couldn’t answer in their reporting. TV and radio stories would mention the key…