Friday, May 10, 2002

Java Front End for Syndic8. "Friday is a Java front-end for viewing news aggregation sites and site syndication feeds on mobile devices, like phones and PDAs. Friday supports the Syndic8 news aggregation site. In the near future, it will support others, such as Meerkat and NewsIsFree." [via Content Syndication with XML and RSS] This is pretty big news to my mind, because it's the next piece of the puzzle for shifting RSS news aggregators to make them portable. In the future, when we're bathed in always-on, wireless access to the internet, we'll use our customized aggregators to deliver the information that we've personally knighted to be aggregator-worthy. Maybe you'll see a full-blown aggregator on your OQO, but maybe you view a subset of feeds that you've tagged as high priority and those appear on your phone because you need to see updated information as it comes in. Maybe it's your organization's intranet feed, your customers' feeds, your local newspaper's headlines, or just your daughter's blog. It's your aggregator, so you choose what's important. But portability (both mobility and interoperability) makes that happen. [The Shifted Librarian] 8:03:45 AM

Wednesday, May 1, 2002

April 2002 Developer Tools Posted. The April 2002 Developer Tools, now available to ADC online members, includes a new version of Project Builder with a flexible user interface. This long-time CodeWarrior user set it to the “Many Windows” configuration, and so far I’m pleased. [ranchero.com] 7:13:38 AM

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More The idea of using ZIP compression as a discriminator and measure is interesting. It's not as immediately obvious as using FFT's for shapes, back when we started shape categorizations, but it may be another interesting "texture" measure for a number of classification problems. Physicists have figured out how to use zipping programs to analyze and categorize text quickly, which could lead to a system for ordering DNA and protein sequences. By Bruce Schechter. [New York Times: Technology] 7:39:46 AM

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Simple Stored Procedure Emulation with PHP/mySQL Brent Ashley: “My ‘third time, automate’ rule came in handy again recently. I’m doing all sorts of PHP/mySQL work and I found myself hacking together the same SQL queries over and over with just some different filter or sort order. Being used to stored procedures, I was missing the easier syntax.” [ranchero.com] 9:15:12 PM

Tuesday, April 9, 2002

This is a little tidbit from Mike Schrag. Mike's a very gifted Java developer who was one of the author's of our remote learning products. Also very cool is the Rhino Project at Mozilla.  It's a pure-Java Javascript interpreter that allows you to (among other things) bind java classes into  Javascript -- http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ [Mike Schrag's Radio Weblog] I'm really impressed with the applications he has written and the development style he has developed. Now that he's posting to his own blog you'll be seeing his posts here from time-to-time. 6:50:22 PM

Thursday, April 4, 2002

Russ Lipton explains what scripting is.   [Scripting News] 9:45:54 PM     Embedding Tomcat into Java Applications O’Reilly: “In this article, we’ll extend our Tomcat discussions to the application level by creating a Java application that manages an embedded version of the Tomcat JSP/servlet container.” [ranchero.com] 8:50:51 PM     Six Common Enterprise Programming Mistakes O’Reilly: “I remember my first few years of programming when I knew that I was going to always innovate, always create, never copy, and never need any help. Of course, I later found out that most of my clever ‘innovations’ were poor solutions to well-understood problems, many with established ‘best-case’ solutions. It’s absurd to be so egotistical as to refuse to accept help when it’s offered.” [ranchero.com] 8:47:27 PM

Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Scripting Rules! Linux App Writer Wows Skeptics. SashXB is a scripting language just released by IBM that lets non-Linux programmers write Linux code using HTML and JavaScript. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 9:38:17 AM     Sun's Java versus open source Java. Sam Ruby cites this: Jon Udell: Java may have arrived late to the Web services party.  Grrr.  There are plenty of Java implementations.  Many are very good.  Some have been postively groundbreaking.[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Agreed. I ought to have said something like "Sun's official Java platform." [Jon's Radio] 9:22:46 AM

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