Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms. When I had dinner recently with InfoWorld Contributing Editor Phil Windley, he put his finger on something I've been trying to nail down for years. Like me, Phil works mainly in a home office, is married to a nongeek, and is often called on to deliver spousal tech support. From… Continue reading Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms

microformats.org Launched. Officially announced at Supernova2005 earlier this week, a new community-based site has been launched to be the official home for microformats — with a logo and simple site design from SimpleBits. microformats.org contains anything and everything you'd want to know about microformats, how to implement them, who's involved, and how to join the… Continue reading microformats.org Launched

NeoOffice/J 1.1 Finally Released. After five years of development, NeoOffice/J is finally released. From the announcement (found in a NeoWiki cache): The goal of NeoOffice/J is to provide an entirely free and complete Mac OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project — only with the look-and-feel you'd expect from any Macintosh application.… Continue reading NeoOffice/J 1.1 Finally Released

OPML.   Tinderbox 2.5 imports OPML — an XML interchange format for outlines. If you've got an OPML file that would be nice to import into Tinderbox, send it along and we'll test it.  [Mark Bernstein]

Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List. Scott Hanselman has an awesome list of his favorite 120 developer and power tools.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. Word on the street is that popular webhost Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. That’s great news, especially if you’re already married to DH and wants to do Ruby on Rails development. For everyone else starting out or looking for a new host, the premier choice for Rails hosting… Continue reading Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. The Importance of RSS “Unfortunately, Google’s well of good data is being poisoned by the likes of comment spammers, trackback spammers and adsense mongers. And while Google, the other search engines and the blog software community have been fighting the good fight with ideas like nofollow, Typekey… Continue reading Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big

CSS: A Designer's Guide. Whether you're a CSS adept who needs help remembering the 342 approved hacks, or a traditional print (or Dreamweaver) designer for whom CSS layout is scary and confusing, Charles Wyke-Smith's designer's guide to CSS has you covered. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

PC World: Microsoft Builds Its Own Peer-to-Peer App. Researchers at Microsoft's labs in Cambridge, England, are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs, and software applications to end users over the Internet. [Tomalak's Realm]

O'Malley intensifies action on closings. Sixteen months after he first announced plans to close a large number of parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston, Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley is suddenly a man in a hurry. [Boston Globe — Front Page]