We created a ‘related items’ feature way back in Clearspace 1.0 (I mocked some of it out here just to prove that it worked) which shows related content based on the document, thread or blog post that you’re currently viewing. It was built using the MoreLikeThis class, a contribution made to the Lucene project by [...]
Cool article from HBS that was published this past April. In it, the author put a new spin on one of my favorite quotes, supposedly spoken by Thomas Watson:
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
The gist of the research was this:
In well-led teams, a climate of openness could make [...]
Recording this for posterity: let’s say you’re working on a store and you’ve got a database table that stores orders and a database table that stores customers and that you want to get a count of all the customers who’ve ordered more than 10 times. You’re going to write a query that looks like [...]
It looks like it was almost 2 months ago that I wrote a blog post about the Clearspace plugin for Firefox (called Clearfox), promising that I would follow up with the details on the JavaScript side of the project. I guess time flies when you’re having fun.
Getting started on the JavaScript sidebar [...]
I rolled out the Clearfox plugin on the Jive Software Community site a couple weeks ago and got some good feedback and some bad feedback. A number of people said they tried to install the Firefox part of the plugin, restarted Firefox and then didn’t see the Clearspace icon like my screenshots / screencast showed. [...]
It’s been embarassingly quiet on this blog of late, I apologize for all the delicious links, although a case could be made that blogs were originally nothing more than sharing links so maybe I shouldn’t be apologizing, but that’s a different blog post. Today I want to talk about the thing I’ve been working [...]
In my day job over at Jive Software I get to work on the crazy cool Clearspace product and unless you’ve been reading the system requirements lately, you probably didn’t notice that we support six different database platforms: MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, DB2, SQL Server and HSQLDB. Clearspace borrowed a number of classes from Jive Forums [...]
I’ve been using ROME for a couple years now and I’m still learning new things. Today I was working on an issue in Clearspace where we give users the ability to show RSS / Atom feeds in a widget, optionally giving them the choice to show the full content of each item in the feed [...]
Jon Udell posted the transcript of his conversation with Dr. Joel Selanikio (who, as the co-founder of DataDyne, is in the business of collecting public health data in developing countries) last Thursday, which I believe was right about the same time I finished a book I picked up at my parents house while on vacation. [...]
From billhiggins.us:
If you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface design and recognize that when you build a “desktop in the web browser”-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave. This choice may have significant negative impact on learnability, [...]
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