Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Eugueny Kontsevoy – Web vs Desktop Nonsense: „If a web application does not really need to run inside the browser, why does everybody expect Microsoft to ship an online version of their popular Office suite in the fashion similar to Google Docs? Technically speaking, to release a viable web version of Office they may just…

Jason Fried at 37signals – Preview 3: Backpack Page Changes: „When you have multiple people contributing to a page it’s handy to know when and what changed since your last visit. We’ve made this really easy with the new Backpack. If you visit a page that changed since your last visit you’ll see a sticky…

Parand Tony Darugar – Convert Documents From doc/ppt/xls/etc to html/pdf/flash/etc Using OpenOffice.org: „The magic solution is simply to use JODConverter with OpenOffice. In particular, I downloaded OpenOffice 2.3.1 for OS X, started it as “headless”: /Applications/OpenOffice.org\ 2.3.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice -headless -accept=“socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;“ -nofirststartwizard & and then used JODConverter commandline to convert files: alias ooconv=’java -jar /Users/parand/Packages/jodconverter-2.2.1/lib/jodconverter-cli-2.2.1.jar‘ ooconv SomePowerpointFile.ppt…

Calais powered by Reuters – Frequently Asked Questions: „From a user perspective it’s pretty simple: You hand the web service unstructured text (like news articles, blog postings, your term paper, etc) and it returns semantic metadata in RDF format. What’s happening in the background is a little more complicated. Using natural language processing and machine…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly radar – Reuters CEO sees „semantic web“ in its future: „What I think does ultimately matter is the ability of professional media to build specialized interfaces and vertical data stores that are suited to their niche, hopefully harnessing data and services from the consumer internet, and mashing them up with specialized,…

Elliotte Rusty Harold at IBM developerWorks – The future of XML: „Of course, the most important conversion isn’t from OpenDoc to OOXML or vice versa: it’s a down conversion from either OpenDoc or OOXML to XHTML. The HTML exporters in OpenOffice and Microsoft Office are uniformly atrocious. Look for third-party developers to pick up the…

Jon Wise – Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 2 – The Job: „So after months of wearing jeans, chugging caffeine, cluttering your desk with sketches and reference material, you clean yourself up, put on a nice pair of pants, comb your hair, and sell again. Although most organizations have a sales force and a marketing…

One year after the Switch, I’m still quite happy with my MacBook Pro (now running Leopard). Although it took me a couple of weeks to get accustomed to the differences in keyboard layout (@, Cmd vs. Ctrl, brackets etc.)… Pros: very beautiful, thoughtfully designed (and fast) hardware and software, great user experience changing networks and…

Todd Hoff and Bill Boebel at High Scalability – How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data: „The system stores over 800 million objects (an object = a user event such as receiving an email or logging into IMAP) within Solr and 9.6 billion within Hadoop, which equals 6.3 TB compressed.…

TinyMCE 3.0 final Released: „These are some of the big changes since the 2.1.3 version. * Core is completely rewritten and optimized. * Smaller download size and less files to load. * Improved Safari support. * New and improved API, documented at wiki.moxiecode.com.“