Month: November 2002

Drew McLelland's Five Tips to More Professional Code is live on DesDev – Drew is one of the formost pundits on the Dreamweaver scene. He is very strong in the field and an advocate of web standards. In this article Drew gives five simple tips that can make your app or site last longer and preform… Continue reading Five Tips to More Professional Code

Controlled Vocabularies in the Trenches. Victor jots down some thoughts about creating controlled vocabularies within the context of the design of a project he's working on. He discusses some real considerations and dependencies related to the development of a controlled vocabulary and implications for systems design. Here's some of my own thoughts/reactions, based on experience.… Continue reading Controlled Vocabularies in the Trenches

Map of 12,647 WiFi access points in Manhattan. Julian found this info graphic showing 12,647 WiFi access points in Manhattan. The data was compiled by wardriving every street! Pretty cool. Indicates access points with red dots. Occurence of access points is dense where you might expect — commercial areas and middle to high income residential… Continue reading Map of 12,647 WiFi access points in Manhattan

Context-Aware Computing: The Return of Ranganathan?. Peterme, musing on how we'll make sense of information offered in context-aware mobile devices, discusses facet-based description as a solution. [ia/ – news for information architects]

g4u – Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs. g4u (“ghost for unix”) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. First is to upload the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server. Other… Continue reading g4u – Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs

Slashdot | Working Bayesian Mail Filter. zonker writes “A real, working honest to god Bayesian spam filter. I've been waiting for something like this for a while (since I first read Paul Graham's research paper on this very topic a few weeks ago). Well here's POPFile, a small but extremely effective Perl script that runs… Continue reading Working Bayesian Mail Filter