Marcel Neuhausler's World

Google Pages Released: "Although there has been no official announcement yet Google have released the long awaited and long-rumored Google Pages (which has nothing to do with cloning Larry Page). Pages allows users to create a webpage using an AJAX interface that removes a lot of the ‘pain’ associated with creating pages with HTML and other desktop design applications. If you have some time on your hands and would like to try this out, then head over to http://pages.google.com to signup. If you have an existing Google account (they snuck that on us, didn’t they) then getting a pages account is very simple.

Once you are in the application you are presented with a WYSIWYG interface displaying your page and some editing controls. The interface in terms of what they have done with client-side Javascript is impressive, and what Google has done in terms of putting up simple pages is cool but overall it is an underwhelming gimmick that may have some potential if they focus. Google Pages allows you to upload files, create many pages that you can link up, and select from a smorgasbord of templates. The website which you can then push out to publish can then be found at username.googlepages.com..."

(Via TechCrunch.)

.. they just have too much money to play around .. guys at Google get focused again! .. do what you can do best ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:32 PM | Permalink

"In this article, we show how a statically-typed, statically-built, object-oriented language such as Ada can make full use of the notion of dynamic plug-ins. To that end, we build an extensible application and illustrate adding new functionality to it at run-time via plug-ins. Selected new features of Ada 2005 are used in the implementation and are highlighted."

.. completely forgot about ADA .. was the first language I used in which Threads were / are part of the language itself .. and "Rendezvous" for fancy Thread to Thread communication .. by the way, do you remember occam? ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 04:36 PM | Permalink

"Nearly all API providers place some sort of usage limits on their APIs. While not getting into the reasons why they do this — be it controlling costs, preventing abuse or other — it wasn’t until this week while updating the API database that I realized just how many ways this can be done. Here’s a sampling that shows the types and some representative examples:

• Time based limits: 1 call per second (Last.fm)
• Call Volume by Address: 5,000 queries per IP per day (Yahoo! Image Search)
• Call volume per-application: 10,000 queries per application per day (MSN Search)
• Return results volume: 10 results per query (Google Search), 100 items returned per call (Tailrank), 100 blogs per map (FeedMap)
• Data Transmission Volume: 120 packets of 1.6KB per minute (MSN Messenger)
• Formula: Monthly quotas based on various factors (Google AdWords)
• Kindness of strangers: ‘Please be gentle with Simpy’s server’ (Simpy)

The above can, and are, used in combination. And there’s probably more ways than these. Of course arrangements can be made with API providers to work around these limits. But that’s a different discussion. Maybe one for MashupCamp."

(Via ProgrammableWeb.)

Posted by mneuhaus at 02:53 PM | Permalink

"Let us be the first to welcome you to the brand new Yahoo! User Interface Blog. We’re excited to be here, and thrilled to have you with us.

This blog is the companion blog for two libraries we’re proudly releasing today. The new Yahoo! Design Pattern Library offers our thinking on common interface design issues for traditional and rich Internet applications. The new Yahoo! User Interface Library is a collection of industrial-grade JavaScript utilities and widgets that enable you to efficiently get the most out of today’s powerful browsers. In both cases, these are the exact same things that power Yahoo! today."

(Via Yahoo! User Interface Blog.)

.. the Design Pattern Library is definitely worth checking out .. thanks Jim for the pointer ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:00 PM | Permalink

"Offering VMware Server for free will bring VMware's proven virtualization technology to a wider audience, allowing companies to achieve the benefits of virtualization, such as cost reductions and flexible server provisioning."

.. right on! ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:25 PM | Permalink

"An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups."

.. that's ueber-ueber-cool! .. want to know what site combines "GoogleMaps" with "BBC" .. just check that matrix ..

By the way, I just found some other map, the Web 2.0 innovation map. That map shows the location of Web 2.0 services worldwide.

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:58 PM | Permalink

Prototype JavaScript Framework: "Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere."

.. interesting .. different people pointed me to that library .. always a good sign to start checkin into it ..

.. and by the way, Rico, another fancy Rich-Client-Library, is built on Prototype ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:30 AM | Permalink