ahhh, but if it were only that easy. nonetheless, A Business Case for Usability does contain some nice bits o' ammo:
posted by e3
9:09:03 PM
"This is a business case for usability in an organization. It is based on academic research, industrial research, case studies, consulting experience, and common knowledge found in the usability community."
iPod? They plod.:
posted by e3
10:12:54 PM
"The Rio Volt, a unit that can now be had for as little as 90$, is a CD based unit which shows the reasons why the Ipod is probably going to be the Newton of MP3 Players. iPod is more like iPlod, as Apple plods along behind the curve."
Simple Web Services API:
posted by e3
9:37:42 PM
"Web Services are poised to be a central tool in distributed software construction. In order to work with Web Services from a programming language, a programmer needs some form of Application Programer Interface. Although there exist several of these APIs for scripting languages, the quality of their implementation and programmer interface varies widely. Web Services implementations in scripting languages share many common issues around dynamicity, type checking, complex types and introspection. It is difficult and yet important to address these issues without making the usage model complex.[ via aaron ]
This specification describes a model API that addresses many of these issues."
jason comes up with a super-useful idea for the wayback machine archive:
posted by e3
9:34:18 PM
"a Perl script that crawls through old weblog postings, finds all the broken links, and replaces those with links to the archived versions in the Wayback Machine archive (from the correct time period, of course)."
so, hypothetically speaking, just say i needed to strip html from content and wanted to replace the stripped tags with a space. why, oh why doesn't this regex work:
posted by e3
8:39:11 PM
$content =~ s/<[^<>]*>/ /g;it finds and removes the tags, but it doesn't insert the space. i need the space. it's probably one of those dopey, smack-your-forehead errors...
Rx Cookbook:
posted by e3
11:01:55 PM
"This is a new collaborative website, built by ActiveState, which will host your techniques for building, finding, verifying, and doing pretty much anything else with patterns of text. We invite you to contribute regular expressions, snippets of code, comments, and ratings for recipes from the entire Perl community. This living collection will allow programmers to be more productive with one of the most difficult areas of scripting. "[ via jy ]
A Smarter Web:
posted by e3
10:47:27 PM
"The fact that metadata wasn't implemented right from the Web's start could also make it harder for the Semantic Web to gain acceptance. One particularly tough skeptic is Peter Merholz, cofounder of Adaptive Path, a San Francisco-based user experience consultancy. "This stuff has to be baked in from the beginning," says Merholz, who calls the Semantic Web "an interesting academic pursuit" with little bearing on society. "The Semantic Web is getting a lot of hype simply because Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the World Wide Web - is so interested in it," he says. "If it were just some schmuck at some university in Indiana, nobody would care.""
pixie now will get the latest blogdex links for you by crunching the new blogdex rss feed. if you want to test it out and you have a jabber acount, just add pixie@snowdeal.org to your roster and type 'hello' or just 'blogdex'.
oh, and pixie will now try to find definitions for you. just type 'definition' after she's on your roster.
posted by e3
11:08:53 AM
oh, and pixie will now try to find definitions for you. just type 'definition' after she's on your roster.
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