“Rajesh has a mock-up of a digital dashboard available.  You can see where this is going.  A portal of one.  All data on the desktop.  Simple, easy to customize, and powerful.” [John Robb's Radio Weblog] Excellent! I've needed a mock-up of a digital dashboard in order to illustrate some of my ideas for the SLS… Continue reading

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On Building Software Product Sites. Since I’ve been working on the website for NetNewsWire Lite (soon to go 1.0), I’ve been thinking about how to build sites for software products. My current thinking—which may be completely off the wall, thoroughly nuts—I’ve written up in On Building Software Product Sites. [inessential.com]

Why I develop for Mac OS X. The other day, Joel Spolsky wrote about the economics of developing for Macintosh. I don’t think Joel is wrong about anything he says. It’s true, for instance, that “if your Windows product appeals to 1 in 100 Windows users, you have to appeal to 25 in 100 Mac… Continue reading Why I develop for Mac OS X

Business Week nails the analysis of why the Internet is stalled.  The roll-out of broadband to the home is slowing due to a pricing problem and not a services problem.  If prices were $19.95 a month for T-1 speeds we could easily get 60% plus penetration.  Even using the wrong technology (anything but fiber), cable… Continue reading Business Week

Enhanced Thumbnails for Web Search. Those crazy kids at Xerox PARC are at it again with this neat thing they call Enhanced Thumbnails. The web search demo is particularly interesting. This demo is a re-creation of the user tests conducted by the research staff, comparing Enhanced Thumbnails to more traditional methods of displaying search results.… Continue reading Enhanced Thumbnails for Web Search

ZDNet: PHP tools come to the UK. PHP, a server-side scripting language that supports applications in Web pages, is now the leading Web scripting language, according to Wick Hill. The company is now distributing commercial tools from Zend for UK developers working with the language. “In the next six months, we will see a recognition… Continue reading ZDNet: PHP tools come to the UK

Tales from the trenches: MySQL, Linux, and Thread Caching. Wow, it's been a busy week. I was totally swamped for several days dealing with the remember.yahoo.com MySQL servers and related stuff. And then I used a day or two to recover (sleep, shower, etc). Anyway, I made some interesting discoveries along the way. The most… Continue reading Tales from the trenches: MySQL, Linux, and Thread Caching

A Very Shifted Library. Thanks to Lori Bell, I've been scanning the Memorial Hall Library's web site (they're located in Andover, Massachusetts). They do a great job of providing remote access to their databases, live online chat with a librarian, a browsable catalog (instead of just a searchable one), and they're even circulating Gemster ebooks. Lori… Continue reading A Very Shifted Library

developerWorks: Tuning Red Hat for maximum performanceThis tutorial details the ins and outs of transforming a stock, “out of the box” Red Hat installation into a finely tuned, stable system customized to individual needs and tastes.  [Zope Newbies>]

A Plan for Spam. Quote: “I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it… Continue reading A Plan for Spam