Tuesday, 9 July 2002

Syntax Definition Formalism As someone who has constnatly battled with parsing, I find the following kinda interesting SDF. Something to follow up on for sure. 5:18:15 PM

Generative Programming and stuff The Program Transformation Wiki. Program-transformation.org is dedicated to collecting, organizing and disseminating information about all aspects of program transformation in order to share results across communities. I came across this site via the interesting Stratego link in the discussion group. This site contains quite a lot of information, including surveys on topics like Program Transformation, Domain Engineering and the History of Decompilation. [Lambda the Ultimate] Some very interesting links. In following the links in the above LtU article I realised that I had traversed at least three seperate wiki instances. And found another book to read - Program Generators With XML And Java. Is it interesting that most of the useful stuff on the 'net is now in weblogs and wikiwebs? Or, is it to be expected? Now, at least, I realise why I don't watch telly anymore. 5:03:41 PM

Visual google surfing TouchGraph Google Browser. TouchGraph GoogleBrowser lets you surf Google's "similar pages" networks in a Java applet. Here's a screenshot of the NYTimes's network. Meanwhile, Christopher Langreiter's Google Sets Visualizer lets you visualize concepts as related by Google sets. Here's a screen shot of connected philosophers.... [Google Weblog] An effortless way to loose several hours playing with google. Lotsa fun. 4:45:32 PM

All YAMF'd out Yet Another MVC Framework. I've been taking a little time to read about WebWork as an alternative to Struts. I've been googling around for information, and I have not come up with a whole lot. I found a post by the Struts master, some evangelism, and the WebWork docs on some dodgy server somewhere. I found the most informative summary of WebWork on the Barracuda site [...] [Blogging Roller] Can I be stupid for a moment here? (Yeah, yeah, i'm always stupid :) What is honestly wrong with Velocity? It enforces seperation of concerns by not letting the user insert java code in the template, it's easily usable in both online and offline situations, and it only has a few wrinkles. What do these other MVC Frameworks do above and beyond Velocity? [Later...] That will teach me to open my big trap. The short answer is the frameworks attempt to add structure. Given most of the projects I have worked on, where time was considered more important than sanity of the solutions, all of the technologies i have seen used (JSP, JSP + Custom Taglibs, Struts) have wound up being messy. This is probably more a reflection on the speed-is-the-essence emphasis of the projects, rather than the technologies themselves being flawed. I personally love Velocity as it was easy to explain to developers and html'ers in a five minute window. KISS. 3:23:31 PM

HttpClient code is dense Testing the latest gump build commons Http Client, and spent an hour or three reading the code. Man, oh man. That code is a tad dense. Not something I can patch quick fixes into and have much hope of actually getting a clean build out of. And now I am well and truly behind my timeline :/ [Later...] Bugger it, I am migrating to Ronald's HTTPClient. It is LGPL instead of Apache licensed, and as much as I would dearly love to debug Apache's client, I am already two days behind schedule. Not happy, Jan. [Even Later...] Found easier way out of box. Confirm with business which parts of website should actually be crawled. Yay, no porting required. Any pointers to documentation on the layout of HttpClient appreciated, as I have several projects in the back of my mind that require a good Http Client, and I would like to use Apache's one. So I'd like to pitch in a fix it, if only I could understand the structure of the code base... 12:47:06 PM

Movable Type I have decided what I dislike about MT. The RSS feeds are useless. 12:27:15 PM

Emotion and Design Emotion and Design - Don Norman essay. G [ia/ - news for information architects] I enjoy reading a good essay by Don Norman. 11:48:23 AM

How to boil a frog Another weird rant of mine - The Salami Effect. [rebelutionary] Also known as the "Boiled frog syndrome". 11:46:49 AM

How to spot a dud Coy Investigating Inventory. This one balance sheet item can warn you before a company does. [The Motley Fool] Pity this only works with manufacturing companies. 11:13:45 AM

Radio doesn't like me Please unsubscribe/resubscribe to the XML feed. This is the end of the line for the Radio based weblog. I've moved to Movable Type. Thanks. [pberry: Radio Edition] "Can't send HTTP request because TCP is offline." wtf? [Later...] It looks like I have confused my laptop by configuring a dial-up. Now everytime some app comes up trying to surf the internet (which is available over 100meg switched ether), windows brings up the modem dialer. And thus, Radio thinks it ain't connected. Or something. :/ 11:12:24 AM

My kingdom for a 26 hour day Is anyone interested in taking some of the movabletype features and putting them into Roller? Brett? Charles? David? [rebelutionary] As soon as I have a few spare moments ... ;) 11:09:41 AM

Eclipse 500 A bizzjet for under a million dollars? You bet there's interest for that. Even better if it could to vertical take-off and landing :-) Seriously, the eclipse500 could revolutionize air-travel much like PCs did for computing [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] I want an RSS feed for http://www.eclipseaviation.com/progress/ :) 10:36:52 AM

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