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Sábado, 23 de Noviembre de 2002

Hierarchy Doesn't Scale My thoughts on the short-comings of the use of hierarchy to organize data and a plea for something better.

 
Some time ago I read something about the BEOS filesystem (ignore the usual TheRegisterMicrosoftBashing) that was related with this, and I think it's very cool.
 
Their idea was that you should be able to have 'queries', not folders (even if you can have folders in BEOS). You could have a shortcut for an 'emails from my boss' folder on your desktop, which really maps to a query in your inbox. When you open it, you have the data there. When a new email arrives, it automatically appears there. All of this as fast as if you had a real folder opened.
 
Google has showed the world the way to look for information. I have a lot of documentation in my hard drive but I never use it. Compare the time it takes to find the docs for System.Data.SqlClient in Google or in the MSDN library that ships with VS.NET. We need to have something as good as Google to look for information in our hard drives, and that's it.
 
Yes, I know is not that easy ;).

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SOAPScope Ships "Mindreef SOAPscope Personal is an easy-to-use, toolkit independent diagnostic aid for developers, testers and application support technicians who must isolate Web Services problems. Our primary design goal with SOAPscope Personal was to create the best logger/viewer for Web Services - one that is SOAP, WSDL and XML aware. Most Web Services developers and testers use some type of tracing tool to troubleshoot problems, but the available tools lack the features needed to make troubleshooting efficient. By combining a scaleable logging environment with many innovative features, Mindreef SOAPscope Personal easily meets our original goal."

MindReef showed the beta version at the Web Services DevCon to critical acclaim. It sure looks good.
 
The demo at the Web Services DevCon was really impressive. I really expected that it will be much higher priced. If you are doing Web Services development, you want to pay $99 and get this tool.
 

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Developing and Maintaining Production Systems Very good information on developing and running production systems. Its too bad that a.) I didn't have this when I did my first production system b.) it is still too difficult to do a lot of this without a significant budget and c.) there are always more things to do than time to do them.

[via All Things Java]

 
 

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