Posted in delicious on 31 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Wikis in Plain English (Common Craft)
If you ever need to explain wiki’s to someone without a heavy computer science backpack, this is a good video. Without any nonsense it explains how to use a wiki to plan a camping trip.
(tags: wiki explanation tutorial web2.0 video technology)
Posted in delicious on 30 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Signals (Django Trac)
I keep learning more and more about Django, as I use it both for work (application prototyping) and for my personal project (webpage). Fortunately I stumbled on this piece of magic. It’s like AOP for the Django ORM. Good stuff.
(tags: django signals aop webdev architecture)
diamanda (Google Code)
Trying to find some stuff that has [...]
Posted in delicious on 27 May, 2007 | No Comments »
openmeetings (Google Code)
This looks promosing, an totally open source video conference system. It’s based on openlaszlo and red5. Haven’t tried it, but I am wondering what happens with firewalls and the like.
(tags: collaboration meetings opensource video openlaszlo red5)
Posted in delicious on 26 May, 2007 | No Comments »
What Powers Curse (DavidCramer.net)
A way to scala django.
(tags: django scalability architecture infrastructure performance)
Posted in delicious on 25 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Feature Presentation (The New Yorker)
Short and good article about the balance between the number of features and simplicity. The eyeopener here is that many features also cost a lot. Not just from lost efficiency, but also because products are returned to the manufacturer.
(tags: design simplicity interaction usability features complexity)
the Uncanny Valley of user interface design [...]
Posted in delicious on 22 May, 2007 | No Comments »
The Dinner Table Rule (BitWorking)
This is a neat way of avoiding some of the talk we do at work.
(tags: management meetings language)
Posted in delicious on 21 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game (NY Times)
There were a number of talks on the etech2007 that dealt with making applications more like games. Now the mainstream media is reporting about this cool idea. Would be nice to sit down and do a brainstorm on how to make printers act like games.
(tags: [...]
Posted in delicious on 18 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Predicting the Future with Groups (HP)
I shouldn’t be posting this, because it goes against the scenario thinking I have been working on lately. But it’s a pretty cool idea. Use a group to predict the future using an imperfect information market.
(tags: future scenario ssoffice hp information economics)
Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos
Normally photoshop articles are soso, [...]
Posted in delicious on 17 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Microsoft’s new brain (Fortune)
Microsoft lags behind in the web 2.0 hype. However, Ray Ozzie has internally set the company straight on some things, which resulted in Windows Live. This article shows what happened in Microsoft management when Ray Ozzie started at Microsoft.
(tags: microsoft business future saas strategy management)
The New Secret Sauce (O’Reilly Radar)
This is one [...]
Posted in delicious on 16 May, 2007 | No Comments »
Free tool offers ‘easy’ coding (BBC tech news)
This new programming paradigm looks like lego mindstorms. Also on the professional end it looks like Yahoo Pipes. This way of programming should also work for non technical professionals.
(tags: code development education kids automagic programming)
Rails Envy: Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails…
Ofcourse, this really IS about Django, but I [...]
