Macromedia MX: Components and Web Services (PDF). Web applications today are developed without significant structure. Often they consist of server-side dynamic pages with embedded script, presentation logic and data access logic. As a result, most of the business logic and data associated with these applications are locked up—unable to be shared inside and outside of [...]

Once in a while Microsoft publishes tips that are actually useful. Here's one that'll make a shortcut on your Windows XP desktop that'll lock your system. If you work at a cube farm, like I do, this is great cause when you leave your desk you can quickly lock your system which protects you against [...]

Hollywood actor George Clooney and British actress Dame Diana Rigg have come up trumps in a new poll of the 50 sexiest stars in television history. I adore Emma Peel! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Ok, here is a little more fun with filtered news feeds.  I used Google to search news items based on source (the NYTimes) and topic keyword (blog).  This feed pulls the most recent story in that mentions the NYTimes and blog.  Here is what this looks like.  With a couple tweaks I will get the [...]

I've created an RSS newsfeed for the Google Sci/Tech news.  You can find it here.  It could be better.  My attempt took three minutes to put together.  The only hard part is picking out the repeatable HTML at the start and end of each story section.  I did this with eVector's RSSdistiller tool (all you [...]

Wireless Networks in Libraries. Last Friday, Marshall Breeding was here at SLS to give a workshop on wireless standards and implementations. I really wanted to sit in on it, but I'm treading water as it is, so I could only afford a couple of brief stops to listen in from time to time. Marshall has [...]

Snail Mail Still Winning The Bandwidth War “LR_none writes 'Today's New York Times has this short piece suggesting snail mail is the leading broadband technology, at least for video movies on demand. The article states that the 8 to 9 gigs of data on a DVD would take two weeks to download at 56kb, making [...]

Transit Cops Turn to Music to Fight Crime “Boston transit police have enlisted the late American composers George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa in their fight against crime. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police are piping in a mix of show tunes and marches at a city subway station in order to drive away the large [...]

Library Patrons As Mobile, Dynamic Communities. Here's an interesting point made by Anthony Townsend and based on a quote from Howard Rheingold that illustrates our current culture of information shifting. “There is some really interesting work being done. Howard Rheingold–who's known for his earlier work on virtual communities–referred to what's called 'swarming behavior.' This is the idea [...]

Information architecture: using card sorting for web classification design: September 23, 2002 issue of New Thinking. Quote: “Card sorting is an excellent approach to help you choose your classifications. It can help shortcut long, tedious and often fruitless debate. It delivers classifications that people would actually choose, not what they say they would choose. Because [...]