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Monday, 3 June 2002 |
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More on the browser feature I want.
I'm tempted to learn how to hack a Mozilla sidebar and write this, but I barely have enough time to breathe right now, and I still haven't got that sodding Java RCS up to dogfood yet.
Number of visits shouldn't be the only deciding factor on what goes on the list. A site I've been to several hundred times in the past, but not at all in the last two months is probably less important than one I've only been to three times, but all in the last week. Perhaps a rules-based scoring system of some kind.
If a page doesn't make it on the list in the first pass, the feature should start aggregating pages and combining their scores, either by making use of <link> tags to identify which pages are related (and which one is the "first" page that should end up in the list), or in the absence of link tags, guessing parent URLs.
Dmoz.org should publish an XML-RPC API, so that URLs in the list could be looked up to see if they're in a particular category.
It would be better to have this feature, and have it be wrong one time out of three, than to not have the feature at all. 11:51:25 PM 
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I hate keeping bookmarks. Often, I'll find myself having visited a site a lot through links from other sites, but never remember its URL because each individual time I visited, the site wasn't important enough to remember. I want the web browser to keep track of what sites I visit frequently, and put them in a list for me. And I want the feature to be smart enough to work without me having to perform any configuration, or maintain any lists manually.
The bookmark paradigm hasn't really changed substantially since Mosaic was the Cool New Thing. Considering how central the concept of "remembering where we've been" is to the whole web experience, you'd think the bookmark/history tools would have evolved a little more than they have. 3:06:11 PM
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IDEA 2.6 was released on May 31st, with full support for JDK1.4 including the assert keyword. 2:31:36 PM
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In the very persuasive article Is Tomcat Crap?, Mike Cannon-Brookes makes the following statement about IDEA
I'd like to plug IDEA as being really cool. I use it at home, and am very impressed. However, I'd just also like to mention that at work I use the Eclipse-based Websphere Studio Application Developer, and so far, it's impressive. I cant wait for WSAD to move to Eclipse 2.0, which would mean compatibility with the Eclipse AspectJ plugin. (full disclosure: my employer is an IBM business partner)
I miss the hot-code-swapping in VisualAge for Java, though. Being able to change code while you were at a breakpoint in the debugger, hit save, and then have the new code running as soon as you start stepping forward again was magical. Maybe when the Java spec settles down and IDEs no longer have to rush to keep up with it, we'll see features like that start to reappear. 1:49:34 PM
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I got a whole bunch of hits (ten so far, anyway) from Rebelutionary's list of Java bloggers, so I figure I'd better wave and say Hi. :)
I'd say more but I'm snowed under with work at the moment. I seem to have just been turned into a "defacto project manager", which really means all the work and none of the authority. And on top of that, I suck at delegating. Feh... 1:25:06 PM
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(Mailed to the radio-dev list) The HTML spec defines directory-based links for "home", "previous" and "next", among other things. While we are playing with the tag, it might be useful to add these as well. What does this give you?
For all weblog pages: <link rel="home" href="{URL of weblog homepage}"> (Home isn't in HTML4.0, but since it's supported by the two browsers that actually look at tags at all, it could be considered a useful defacto standard) For all "single day view" pages:
(if there is no next or previous day, omit the link tag entirely) 1:12:09 PM
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