My Archives: February 2001
Friday, February 9, 2001
Jabber looks like it's actually getting a bit nice - talks to all IMs, swappable storage backends, etc. etc. Still based on XML, though, which I find a bit pointless.
Posted by yoz @ 02:55 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Thursday, February 8, 2001
... that I posted to the Anoraks list. If you want a potted take on cross-platform applications in Mozilla and the promise of MozOffice, read on... [more]
Posted by yoz @ 06:21 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Nice short article at NYT about "cyber-serfdom" and "continuous partial attention". "I am struck at how many people call my office, ask if I'm in, and, if I'm not, immediately ask to be connected to my cell phone or pager. (I carry neither.) You're never out anymore. The assumption now is that you're always in. Out is over. Now you are always in. And when you are always in you are always on. And when you are always on, what are you most like? A computer server."
Posted by yoz @ 12:30 AM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Rocklyte Systems are creating a cross-platform runtime environment thing called Athena. It sits on top of an existing OS (currently Linux, but other ports are promised) and takes control of the GUI, with its own scripting languages, object system, blah blah blah. Semi-promising, but not likely to have the developer support needed to be anything other than a curio, especially since it isn't open source (if it was starting on Windows that wouldn't be so much of a problem).
Posted by yoz @ 12:19 AM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
For our latest project we're interfacing with DataCash. We thought it might be a bit problematic, but it turns out that they supply all kinds of useful methods for interfacing: Perl, ColdFusion, Intershop and, most usefully to us,
Java classes.Posted by yoz @ 07:16 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
"As communications protocols and message formats are standardized in the web community, it becomes increasingly possible and important to be able to describe the communications in some structured way. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) addresses this need by defining an XML grammar for describing network services as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages. WSDL service definitions provide documentation for distributed systems and serve as a recipe for automating the details involved in applications communication."
Posted by yoz @ 06:28 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
As part of the latest project I have to start down the road of proper MIS and web access analysis. Aria seems to be pretty unique in what it does, namely intercepting web traffic rather than relying on server logs, and thus being able to pull extra data (e.g. meta tags, POSTed data, anything else you want). It stores it in Oracle and gives you an OLAP interface (apparently it has some Business Objects tech inside). Very tasty.
Posted by yoz @ 06:15 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Paul Ford is (a) the author of the very well-written Ftrain.com (b) the boyfriend of an ex of mine and (c) someone who I just sent a load of suggestions for things to do in Israel. I mention him now because he wrote some very readable (and funny)Notes and Observations on Building a Web Site with XSLT which is a good beginners intro with lots of tips.
Posted by yoz @ 05:55 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Incredimail. RUN AWAAAAAY...
Posted by yoz @ 05:39 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Tuesday, February 6, 2001
Still need to sort out a plan for MIS. John, our database guru, is a big fan of Business Objects. James likes WhiteLight. There's also BroadBase and Aspect (which I mentioned earlier) among plenty of others. Need to come up with some kind of speedy evaluation plan since we haven't much time.
Posted by yoz @ 06:34 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Nick Szabo has written a ton of good stuff on security, trust networks and e-commerce, some of which is high-level, some of which has scary diagrams in and very hard maths.
Posted by yoz @ 06:25 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Definitely the best site for info about .NET. And this FAQ is really good too.
Posted by yoz @ 06:24 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
These are cool. These are cheaper but don't hold as much. These store more but don't look as nice and there aren't any prices.
Posted by yoz @ 06:22 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]
Paul was looking for good sitemappers today. I usually jump to Winfiles first for this kind of thing, and they have a dedicated section for them. He did some pretty pictures with Maxamine, but it wasn't perfect. Later on I was recommended LinkScan by a friend.
Posted by yoz @ 06:18 PM GMT [Link] [No Comments]