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Thursday, September 19, 2002 |
Mikel Maron: "With this tool, the Radio Community Server can act as a RSS Cache for Radio Userland Aggregators." [Scripting News] 
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Frontier and Radio tip: Here are some links to resources for integrating Frontier/Manila and Radio with 3rd party databases (Frontier nad Radio include an integrated database). So, if you have an existing database that you want to make avaible via a Manila site, this should make it possible.
1) Filemaker Pro (Greg) Also, a demonstration service using Frontier and Filemaker. Ranchero's list of resources.
2) ODBC compliant databases (Steve Tallent) such at Oracle, Sybase, MS SQLServer, Access, mySql, or anything with an ODBC driver for your platform. It works on Mac OS 8/9, OSX, and Windows.
3) PostgreSQL (Andre). [John Robb's Radio Weblog] [Bill Maya: 4ahb]
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Cthuugle. A Google clone dedicated to searching H.P. Lovecraft's public domain books. This is brilliant in concept, but it still needs work in execution. Why aren't all books available like this? What a loss for society that they aren't. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
This is too cool! From someone who's read almost all of Lovecraft's work in preparation for writing a short screenplay based on them.
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This is pretty interesting. Using (I think) flash, it allows people to create database entity diagrams on a webpage. er-diagram. Given that it is on a server and not protected by a password, people can stomp on each other in real-time. However, a variant of this aimed at digital dashboard construction could make it very easy to manage and edit webservices on the desktop.
For example: A section for creating a new page on a digital dashboard like "add a page to my dashboard." Select "add a service" and select the services you want to see from a hierarchical drop down menu (for example sales, inventory, financial, server stats, etc). Set the allowed parameters for the service (like all sales over $50,000 or sales by a specific salesman). Then associate the service(s) with a page. Click publish and the data appears in a preformated webpage on the desktop served by a content management system / dashboard application that gathers the data a preset interval in the background.
This type of simple digital dashboard approach is what people want. They want to crack open corporate apps and get the data they need out. Why? People either hate the current overly complex client they are provided or can't afford to extend clients to all of their employees (given that they would need only a subset of the data). [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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My weblog is my global business card. It is the place everyone that wants to contact me can quickly go to find out who I am, what I am doing, and how to contact me. Google is already my default for finding people, with a few tweaks it could be a very efficient global directory of individuals, their contact information (spam free e-mail, IM connections, collaboration tools, Groove ID, etc.), and a history of what they are working on.
The more I look at Macromedia's Flash MX communication server, the more I think it would be a natural with my weblog. I would like to publish collaboration elements in my weblog that are provided by a low cost collaboration source. I want componants that I can plug into a story and publish, and then link to from my navigation, not a massive app. Anybody seen anything like this? Ad hoc collaboration -- pick your tool of preference. Nice! [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Ken Dow on Manila (here is a PDF on his Manila training course). He quotes Kevin Werbach: "Few other Web products scale well in both directions - you either wind up with easy-to-use homepage-building tools that can't handle dynamic sites, or you have complicated, expensive content-management platforms that aren't helpful for beginners or small sites." [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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© Copyright 2004 William J. Maya.
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