Easing Web Application Development with CVS:
"Web applications, by definition, work in conjunction with a Web server to perform a variety of tasks, ranging from displaying basic customized greetings to performing complex transactions. Most complex Web applications also make use of a database to store information.
While none of the above are radically different when developing a traditional standalone application, a Web application developer might think CVS is designed for working on traditional offline applications. I know I thought like this until I realized how applicable CVS is to Web development and how useful it really is."
you heard it here first. the mozilla 0.98 branch is available for download. i've been using it for the past hour or so and it's superfine with noticeable speed enhancements, expecially in the mailer and bookmark tree rendering. very nice job.
i really enjoyed matt jones' Design methodologies in digital design, which is filled with chunky aphorisms:
"1. TRULY engage with our medium not as just designers, but ‘design engineers’.this is sort-of getting at what i was chewing on with my pithy "when worlds collide" comment a few days ago regarding the ongoing interaction design versus xp debate.
2. Involve not only the users, but the implementers in the creation of solutions
3. Understand the business of design better – be ruthless about our ‘product’ – learn this from other product design businesses"
the
mozilla blogger tool looks interesting. i
installed the widget, but i can't figure out how to configure it. hi. ho.
as excuse to get my hands around
xul, i've been working on a similar idea for awhile. i even got motivated enough to built a notepad application based on a tutorial from
xulplanet, which doesn't appear to be online at the moment. using
xul overlays provides a pretty powerful mechanism for 'ui reuse' - it's feasable to appropriate big chunks of the wysisyg composer that comes with mozilla. as with a bunch of my grand plans, it started to languish when i started having problems getting the xml-rpc interface to work correctly.
at some point i'll post a boatload of relevant links, but
essential xul programming is a good place to start:
" A revolutionary new technology for the rapidly expanding world of e-commerce, XUL (XML User Interface Language) is an XML-based user interface language that gives Web developers control over all aspects of the Web interface. Featuring two tutorials on programming with XUL, this book shows developers how to use basic XUL elements to build a sample interface for an e-commerce site, then goes on to explore more sophisticated applications by creating an information portal inside an application. Readers will find expert tips and advice on how to get started writing XUL code as well as how to extend it into Java and other non-Netscape interfaces."[ mozilla blog via dave via matthew thomas ]
in how the wayback machine works, brewster kahle makes a simple but powerful observation:
"So if all books are 20 TBs, and 20 TBs are $80,000, that's the Library of Congress. Then something big has changed. All music? It's tiny. It looks like there're only one million records that have been produced over the last century. That's tiny. All movies? All theatrical releases have been estimated at 100,000, and most of those from India. If you take all the rest of ephemeral films, that's on the order of a couple hundred thousand. It's just not that big. It allows you to start thinking about the whole thing."
i can remember reading the following quote from nick denton's e.mail from the valley in someone's blog, but i can't remember who said it first:
"One of San Francisco’s leading web designers had been reading The Victorian Internet, a history of the telegraph. "The heyday of the telegrapher as a highly paid, highly skilled information worker was over; telegraphers' brief tenure as members of an elite community with mastery over a miraculous, cutting-edge technology had come to an end. As the twentieth century dawned, the telegraph's inventors had died, its community had crumbled, and its golden age had ended." As he commented, boy, that sounds familiar."for the first time in a long time google isn't any help. hmmmm.
update:tara from research buzz quickly solved the mystery by pointing out that jason was the likely originator.
not that it's of interest to anybody but a select group of family and friends, but i've made a small effort to start putting more pictures up in the
photo section
.
don't miss the new shots of our wild and crazy camping trip to
hayward, wisconsin
- home of the world-famous
musky museum
(a.k.a. the mocassin bar)
and
fishing hall of fame
.
just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!
“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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