Open Source

Saturday, July 20, 2002

Very Cool Article: Email Interface Design 101 Talk about serendipity.  As I go to the www.evolt.org site to unsubscribe from their mailing lists (I'm dumping all mailing lists for a while), I find this article: http://www.evolt.org/article/Email_Interface_Design_101/4090/32613/index.html And, what have I been coding all day?  A natural language parser for treating emails sent to a common address like todo@ yourdomain.com as task list items -- but inferring properties like Priority, Status, Project, Categories, Who to Assign them to, etc.  Serendipity in action.  It's all database driven a pretty cool piece of code that knows that "Paolo" = www.evectors.com = IdeaTools and that tasks from Paolo have a higher priority than tasks from other sources, etc.  More details as it gets more features and such. 5:00:09 PM

Enlightenment: Talk About a Beautiful GUI Wow.  I just ran across the development screen shots for the next release of the Enlightment *nix window manager.  Talk about beautiful.  I'm in awe:   4:53:46 PM