Posted in delicious on 28 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Progress indication (IBM DeveloperWorks)
Today a question popped-up at work about how long you can let people wait for an application that is processing something. This article gives a solid background on this topic. Mainly deals with ‘progress indication’.
(tags: usability waiting progress processing)
tesseract-ocr - Google Code
Another OCR project on Google Code. This OCR engine was developed [...]
Posted in delicious on 27 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Phishing Quiz (McAfee SiteAdvisor)
Great quiz! You have to choose between the real and the phising site. Differences are often very subtle (for example an exclamation mark in the wrong place), I can understand that people are easily fooled by scammers.
(tags: internet security scam phishing quiz)
Posted in delicious on 26 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Microsoft Popfly
Haven’t seen this before, but it seems to be similar to Yahoo Pipes, but from MS and in Silverlight. Too bad that the examples are trivial, like most mashup engines. But look at the groovy user interface…
(tags: automagic mashups development microsoft yahoo popfly)
Education for Service Innovation (James Spohrer)
Slide deck from James Spohrer (services research) [...]
Posted in delicious on 25 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Blasting the Myth of the Fold (Boxes and Arrows)
It seems that webdesigners can worry less about the fold in a webpage. This piece is backed up with serious research into this matter. One of the interesting points is that beyond the fold the advertising space might be more valuable.
(tags: design research usability webdesign fold)
Scratch makes [...]
Posted in delicious on 23 July, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Simpsonize Me
Amazing ‘machine’ to make your picture into a simpsons character. It really works!
(tags: simpsons flash fun generator image humor)
Posted in delicious on 22 July, 2007 | No Comments »
IBM Pushes Business not Technology…Okay (InfoWorld)
Pointer to some information from IBM about their way to tackle different vertical markets with SOAs. This author points to the similarities with the time from EAI (enterprise application integration).
(tags: soa services automagic eai ibm)
Posted in delicious on 21 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Unifying Reasoning and Search to Web Scale
Article from two of my profs at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. It deals with the complexity and scalability of web scale reasoning systems. This seems very connected with the work of Jeff Jonas, who is working on extreme identity management at IBM.
(tags: reasoning research semanticweb ai jeffjonas web3.0)
Posted in delicious on 20 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Why Open Source Works (ACM: Ubiquity)
Interview with Steven Weber author of ‘The Success of Open Source’. Gives some interesting perspectives. Looking at open source from the hype perspective it gives room for many explanations. Weber poses that the core is GPL, which makes open source tick.
(tags: opensource gpl book services architecture code engineering)
Introduction to Flex [...]
Posted in delicious on 19 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Does my Button Look Big in This?
[PDF file] Nice presentation (a video is also available) about building testable AJAX applications.
(tags: webdev ajax google testing javascript)
JavaScript: Create Advanced Web Applications With Object-Oriented Techniques (MSDN Magazine)
Excellent article on some nitty-gritty javascript details. Especially the explanation about prototypes, methods and classes are interesting.
(tags: webdev javascript microsoft tutorial ajax)
Douglas [...]
Posted in delicious on 18 July, 2007 | No Comments »
Blog Archive 15 Productive Uses for a Wiki (Web Worker Daily)
List with different ways to use a wiki. What I miss is the power of establishing a structure with categories, backlinks, etc. For me this really is a strength of mediawiki.
(tags: collaboration enterprise wiki productivity web2.0)
Why Congress Needs a Version Control System
Good question: “I’ve been [...]
