Conference store: One of the big surprises for us on staff has been the crowds around the store which sells various Macromedia-related goods. Business has been much higher than expected, and it has been hard to walk around the throngs surrounding it. I asked Tom Hale about this at the lunch for Team Macromedia and… Continue reading Conference store:
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Fusebox MX
Fusebox MX. Fusebox MX (more detail) – Hal talked about the general shift in the programming world from procedural to OO and noted that ColdFusion had shifted in that direction too with CFMX. He made a comment about persistence and someone (Michael Dinowitz I think) asked Hal to define 'persistence': he said it's when “objects… Continue reading Fusebox MX
Adam
Adam “finally took some time to properly install ZOÉ. Once configured you can forget about it, until you need to find a piece of mail, then it acts like google. Check out the screenshots” [Zoë is sure looking like a must have. If you do wrap it around your mailer, how good is it at… Continue reading Adam
In Poll, Americans Say Both Parties Lack Clear Vision
In Poll, Americans Say Both Parties Lack Clear Vision. The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll found an emerging divide between Democrats and Republicans in their perception of the state of the nation. By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder. [New York Times]
Jon Udell
Jon Udell: “A linked web of XML documents is a potent architecture that Web services can and should exploit. Happily, GWS does.” As usual, a tremendously articulate and thoughtful analysis. Thanks, Jon. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]
Five Tips to More Professional Code
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
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
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?
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 – 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