links for 2007-07-28
28 July, 2007
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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’.
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Another OCR project on Google Code. This OCR engine was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995. They’re working on it again with new features, languages as test cases.
links for 2007-07-27
27 July, 2007
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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.
links for 2007-07-26
26 July, 2007
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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…
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Slide deck from James Spohrer (services research) with an excellent overview of what service innovation is. Also a myriad of pointers to people, research, books, etc. (PDF download)
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Homepage for the IBM Academic Initiative with a focus on services. Many pointers, information, cases, etc.
links for 2007-07-25
25 July, 2007
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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.
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This is so cool, it’s programming like ‘lego mindstorms’ for children (actually made by the people from mindstorms. We should harness such power to make programming available to, e.g, account managers to configure services for customers.
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Wonderful handouts for a Django Masterclass given by the trio Jeremy Dunck, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Simon Willison. Very very nice addition to the Django tutorial.
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Wonderful overview of 17 (automagic) mashup toolkits, frameworks or whatchamacallits. The article starts with a discussion about the maturity of theses platforms. (real integration, user friendliness, IT story, enterprise security)
links for 2007-07-23
23 July, 2007
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Amazing ‘machine’ to make your picture into a simpsons character. It really works!
links for 2007-07-22
22 July, 2007
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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).
links for 2007-07-21
21 July, 2007
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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.
links for 2007-07-20
20 July, 2007
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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.
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Quick and dirty tutorial on Flex. To quickly start.
links for 2007-07-19
19 July, 2007
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[PDF file] Nice presentation (a video is also available) about building testable AJAX applications.
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Excellent article on some nitty-gritty javascript details. Especially the explanation about prototypes, methods and classes are interesting.
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Some links to tutorials and information about javascript.
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Detailed list with steps on how to enable a website with OpenID. It also gives tips on how to deal with an already existing user database
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Dodgy stuff, would be nice though ‘free energy’
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Collection of ‘laws’ for software development. There is some funny stuff here, e.g.: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” (Zawinski’s Law)
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Amazing ‘machine’ to make your picture into a simpsons character. It really works!
links for 2007-07-18
18 July, 2007
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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.
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Good question: “I’ve been thinking lately just how much software developers take the existence of version control for granted, and how, with the exception of wikipedia, web 2.0 applications don’t offer much in the way of version control functionality.”
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Thorough tips list. I’ve heard many of these things before, but it’s still good to read them again. I’ll try to use these tips.
