- Screencasting tips — Jon Udell
Quote: “People learn to use tools by watching how other people use them, and imitating what they see.”.
(categories: screencasting tips udell education screencast ) - Tagging and foldering in Photo Gallery — Jon Udell
Tagging is including in Vista’s Photo Gallery: notable only in that it’ll be one of the first mass market (ie: something my mom might use) products that uses tagging.
(categories: tagging tags ontology metadata photogallery vista )
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Links: 2-20-2007
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Personal pet peeve from this list, number 9: “Opening New Browser Windows”
(categories: design ui usability tips ) - Seven steps to remarkable customer service – Joel on Software
I’m sure everyone and their mom will link to this, but it’s good… read it if you haven’t already.
(categories: customerservice support leadership marketing business )
Links: 2-19-2007
Links: 2-17-2007
- Increase file descriptor limit under Linux to prevent java.net.SocketException: Too many open files
Ran into this with Tomcat on my VPS box: updating /etc/security/limits.conf solved the problem immediately.
(categories: tomcat file_descriptor linux java.net.socketexception )
Links: 2-16-2007
- Kumar Mettu’s Blog: Using Fiddler with Firefox
Fiddler rules. Firefox rules. Together… ah.. not so much. If you mod your FF install to point to Fiddler, you have to have Fiddler open all the time in order to browse.
(categories: firefox fiddler http debugging )
Links: 2-10-2007
- slacktivist: Two beautiful daughters
Quote: “Augustine said hope has two children, anger and courage. Anger at the way things are and courage to make them better.”
(categories: colbertreport augustine hedges colbert america hope courage anger )
Links: 2-9-2007
- tecznotes: polite loops in JavaScript
When iterating over largish datasets in a browser, use a non greedy algorithm.
(categories: json javascript polite loops looping scripting theory programming ) - Jive Software: Jive Clearspace
Clearspace launched on Wednesday. Spanky new website too.
(categories: clearspace jivesoftware collaboration wikiblogforum discussions blogging wikis ) - Ken’s Java Blog: Clearspace on GlassFish
Ken Paulsen gets Clearspace installed on GlassFish. Looks like the first thing he did was create a blog too!
(categories: clearspace glassfish jivesoftware jive collaboration )
Links: 2-6-2007
- APP Implementations – Atom Wiki
Atom publishing protocol implementations.
(categories: atom app tools api ) - Imified
Quote: “Imified is an instant messenger buddy that works accross all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications, as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo’s. Imified helps you get things done faster.”
(categories: cool im instantmessaging robots bots )
Links: 2-5-2007
- You’re It! – Pew Internet and American Life: New Report on Tagging
Quote: “… 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts”
(categories: tags tagging pew stats web2.0 ) - Why you should be using disambiguated URLs
Quote: “… Caches (both browser and intermediate proxies) can’t improve performance if you request the same content from a different URL.” Same thing applies to feed aggregators.
(categories: url caching uri usability http disambiguation ) - Slashdot FAQ – Tags
Quote: “We’re going to build the next generation of moderation on top of tags. That means we’re going to poach your namespace. Some tags will have a substantive effect on the system right from the start (or very soon). Our article tagger knows about tags
(categories: tagging tags slashdot folksonomy machinetags web2.0 )
Links: 2-3-2007
- State of the API address
Six important things about blog API’s: date handling, encoding, formatting, tags, publishing status, full blog feature support.
(categories: blogging blogs api xmlrpc app atom atom_publishing_protocol bloggerapi movabletypeapi ) - The Great String versus Numeric URL Key Shootout
DHH says to do away with string URL keys because they change too, which is true but that’s not the point. It’s that string URL keys enable exploration and help explain the IA of a site.
(categories: url uri restian dhh design information ) - ‘IM starving’ – The Boston Globe
Order your food via IM.
(categories: boston im instantmessaging ecommerce )