Month: January 2004

Tinderbox for Windows. For the past two weeks, I've been up to my elbows in Tinderbox For Windows work. [Mark Bernstein]

IKEA walkthrough. God, this is brilliant: the IKEA walkthrough. [Ceejbot]

Nick's CSS and xHTML sites of interest.  Nick Bradbury, the guy who wrote Allaire's HomeSite and his new TopStyle, points to a bunch of sites of interest to Web developers. [The Scobleizer]

Presidential Campaigning at the Edge. Henri Poole has blogged a nice analysis of how Dean's campaign uses smartmob technologies to leverage Reed's Law. If you read Dan Gillmore's December 8th ejournal entry, he talks about Dean as “the candidate who – thanks to prescient aides who saw the power coming from the edges of the… Continue reading Presidential Campaigning at the Edge

Faceted Classification. When designing databases and search interfaces, it's important to consider whether you will need a faceted classification. A recent paper by William Denton, “How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web” describes faceted classification in some detail. [LawLibTech]

Hiding the Elephant. Is technology magic? Is magic technology? Fascinating book makes it all seem magical, no matter what. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Inverting the IT Pyramid. Jeffrey Kaplan writes thought-promoting article on the evolution of product firms to services firms. Do the same rules apply to law? If they do, there are some new business ideas to consider. [DennisKennedy.blog]

The New Issue of Law Practice Today – Wow!. The new issue of Law Practice Today rocks. The theme is the future of law practice and the role of “virual law firms” and there are good articles on legal tech, marketing, management and finance topics. And an RSS feed. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Home Servers – here we come. The Home Server. The Home Server Martin Geddes of Telecopalypse (gotta love that name) saw yesterday's item about home servers and was move to comment. The key word he adds to the discussion is database. Home PCs will become personal database servers. This makes sense from an Always-On perspective. After… Continue reading Home Servers – here we come

How dynamic categories work. In the spirit of the lightweight browser-based solution, I decided to create an equally lightweight server-based version based on Python and libxml2/libxslt. (I'm also working on a slightly heftier, but more powerful variation based on Berkeley DB XML; we'll explore that one next time.) [O'Reilly Network] This article spells out, in… Continue reading How dynamic categories work