Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray – Less Like Oration: „The Net has had a twofold effect on short-form publishing: First, it’s cheap, verging on free. Second, it enjoys many routes to potentially large audiences. It’s the second that’s interesting. Until recently, you simply couldn’t find a large audience for your thoughts unless you had books on shelves in…

Adam Shand – Lessons Learned from Previous Employment: „Surviving the loss of a key person, is never as hard as you think it will be. […] The one thing that managers hate, more than anything else, is being surprised. […] Everything takes longer than you expect. Lots longer. […] One of the primary jobs of…

Timothy M. O’Brien at O’Reilly Radar – Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa: „On Tuesday, Google introduced a feature called Rich Snippets which provides users with a convenient summary of a search result at a glance. They have been experimenting with microformats and RDFa, and are officially introducing the feature and allowing more sites…

Grant Ingersoll – Exploring Lucene and Solr’s TrieRange Capabilities: „Now, however, thanks to the new org.apache.lucene.search.trie package (currently located in the contrib/queries area of Lucene, but it may move to the Lucene core, see below) and it’s addition to Solr via a FieldType, Lucene and Solr users can take advantage of much faster range searches.“

Scott Adams – Calendar as Filter: „I think the biggest software revolution of the future is that the calendar will be the organizing filter for most of the information flowing into your life. You think you are bombarded with too much information every day, but in reality it is just the timing of the information…

RJ Owen at InsideRIA – New York Times AIR reader released: „As a whole, the application does a better job replicating the „newspaper“ experience than reading in the browser. […] Clean design and great execution make this a stellar user experience, and something other companies should strive to emulate. Even more impressive, I’ve had this…

Jon Udell – Can the Noosphere Save Us?: „We are all continually discovering useful knowledge that we want to share. Until very recently, it was costly to transmit that knowledge beyond the local sphere: friends, family, tribe. Now, suddenly, it’s free to address the whole world. The only cost is your time. Of course that…

Simon St. Laurent – Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access: „The general practice set by Access’s creators from the beginning was to do as much as possible through visual interfaces rather than through code. In that, perhaps more than anything else, they struck a balance that made Access approachable while still letting it…

Rick Jelliffe at O’Reilly Broadcast – Announcing the date of the FOSS revolution: 2032!: „So why is retirement important? It is because I suspect that if FOSS can present itself in a form that is convenient and fun for retirees to take up as a hobby, it will have access to an incredible reserve army…

violet – The Internet of Things starts here, fun objects using RFID and WLAN: „Violet’s dream is therefore to make the physical space in which we live – our homes, offices, public spaces – a better place: rich, intelligent, connected, personalized, awe-inspiring, fun. Not a space that simulates 3D, but that naturally is 3D. A…