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"OOPSLA again, lots of conference and all sorts of ideas. It's impossible to do a proper write-up of this conference - there's too much for any one human to attend, let alone take in. So these are scattered thoughts"
.. a great summary with a lot of interesting links .. thanks to Martin Fowler!..
"Here's a list of thirteen things you really should try with Flock. We're bragging, of course, but at the end of the list you'll also find a few warnings about things we're still working on."
.. that could become big .. still a little bit buggy .. but it shows how a WWW-browser could look and act like in the not so far future .. an interesting front end to your blog, to del.icio.us, and your bookmarks .. and it's all based on the Mozilla/Firefox platform, therefor it runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux .. cool ..
"Cocoa XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop".
..useful..
information aesthetics: "inspired by Manovich's definition of information aesthetics, this weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization, in an emergent multidisciplinary field what could be coined as 'creative information visualization'."
.. cool blog! .. many interesting examples of information visualization ..
User-Centric Web Addressing: "The User-Centric Web makes this distinction (between location-aware and location-agnostic resources) very clear so as to take advantage of swarming (or pooling) of resources. Take, for example, a document or blog posting published in a Shared Space. It would be too limiting to restrict the document source to a single URL (pointing to the originator) when perfectly good copies of the document probably exist on other member nodes. This is where a location-agnostic URI that is resolved in real time to one or more physical nodes makes a lot of sense. Decentralized file sharing networks already do this type of swarming through the use of magnet URIs."
.. good idea .. but who will set the standard? ..
R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming: "The next version of Microsoft Office (code-named 'Office 12') will be based on a new interaction paradigm called the results-oriented user interface. As the demos show, the most obvious departure from the past is that menus and toolbars are all but wiped out. The focus is now on letting users specify the results they want, rather than focusing on the primitive operations required to reach their goals."
.. interesting .. have to think a little bit more about it ..
Continuum: "The Maven Project has posted the first beta of Continuum, a "continuous intergration server for building Java based projects". Continuum supports projects based on Ant, Maven 1, and Maven 2. It exposes web and XML_RPC interfaces, and provides e-mail notification of build failures."
(Via Cafe au Lait.)
..that sounds interesting..
Google's RSS feed reader: "This would have been much bigger news a year ago, but Google finally has a Bloglines-like, MyYahoo-like RSS reader. It was introduced today at Web 2.0. You can get to it here."
(Via SiliconBeat.)
.. no comment for now, have to test it first .. update: fancy reader, lot of DHTML .. another update: very cool PodCast integration, including MP3 player ..
Writeboard: "Write a business letter, copy for your website, a marketing brochure, or a product description, or a weblog post, or a song, or a poem, or an idea, or an essay, or a book chapter, or whatever else you might normally write in your email program, text editor, or word processor."
.. another interesting example from the 37signals people .. still like their ideas, but not the fact that all the information gets just stored on their servers, no local replication ..
"The Cloudscape Workbench is a tool for connecting to Derby and DB2 databases, and performing common tasks such as browsing schemas, altering database objects, and working with SQL scripts and table data."
.. interesting Eclipse Plugin for database development with the powerful open source database Apache Derby (Cloudscape) ..