Very cool image transitions using
December 19th, 2001
Very cool image transitions using a bit of java!
Java(TM) Boutique – DS_Explode
Archive
Archive for December, 2001
“Interview: Dave Winer on
December 12th, 2001
“Interview: Dave Winer on Radio Userland . We interview Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about his newest creation, Radio Userland. Thirteen years in the making, Radio Userland puts an industrial strength Web server on your desktop. Designed to be extended by developers, Radio will also appeal to the masses with its news aggregator and weblog features. By Andy King. 0312”
On Dave Winer: XML-RPC via NewsIsFree
“DizzyD talks about Jabber as middleware. As I understand it, we could use Jabber to transport XML-RPC and SOAP messages. Instead of sending a procedure call to an IP address, or domain name, you’d send it to a Jabber user. This would allow us to design groupware applications that reach any desktop Jabber can get to, and it would allow you to move around. (You’d have to have the groupware software on every machine, though.)”
On Dave Winer: XML-RPC via NewsIsFree
WDVL: Usability and HTML Forms
December 11th, 2001
WDVL: Usability and HTML Forms is an article about how to keep HTML forms on websites from getting unusable. Some good things to do and to avoid
Been playing around with some
December 11th, 2001
Been playing around with some tools to collect and aggregate news from different sources on the web lately. NewsIsFree.com is one site that is pretty cool. You can customize pages that pull in information from a lot of other sites. Peerkat is another system based on Python that you can run on a local machine to create your own feeds. Supposedly, others can query your peerkat site to pull in your news listings if they want.
I admin that I’m a
December 9th, 2001
I admit that I’m a bit of an open source software nut. Linux, and other open source software products, are seeing a lot of use in the developing world.
I just stumbled across the Linux Bangalore/2001 conference website. Almost 3000 people are going to attend and it looks cool! Lots of nifty technology stuff has been coming out of India.
Telescopes on the ground can
December 4th, 2001
Telescopes on the ground can now rival the Hubble with the quality of their images. By using a computer-controlled, flexible mirror, these new ground telescopes can adapt to the shimmer in the atmosphere to produce very, very clear images.