Brian St. Pierre: silverback

14 Principles of Polite Apps

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:43:24 GMT

14 Principles of Polite Apps: Software should respond to your obvious needs, not just your commands. Use these 14 principles to create accommodating software.

(Thanks to Phil Wolff for the link.)

XML-RPC for the Aggregator

Fri, 08 Nov 2002 04:15:27 GMT

Dave:

Here it is: Radio's XML-RPC Interface for the Aggregator.

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 01:35:38 GMT

Ernie says:

Personal KM - I'm starting to think a lot more about how to manage my personal information. So I figured I'd start a category for those thoughts and let others see them and give me feedback. M oreof us find ourselves having always on (often wireless) access to the Internet. How can we use that power to simplify our lives and organize our personal information? That's what my Personal KM page will try to address.

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 01:19:34 GMT

Googling your email

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:25:35 GMT

Watching: pingback spec. [via Scripting News]

Searching and Indexing Weblogs

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:22:44 GMT

It would really help to have a tool (are you listening, kind people at Google?) for searching weblog posts and making indexes of the posts. I have decided to use categories for classifying posts, but this is not a complete solution, especially when you start to have hundreds or thousands of posts. [Universal Rule Manager / Juha Haataja: Radio]

I want to move the Weblog to the next level. Beyond a one-way stream of posts to something searchable, active, and informative.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:30:06 GMT

Jon Udell has a post about XML scripting languages. The "native" support he mentions is (I believe) something that could be supported quite elegantly in Python.

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:40:08 GMT

Some more ideas on "Alert me for followup threads".

Here's your weekly list of people, and their blogs, who posted on topics like the ones upon which you commented.

Based on our internal Googler of the original post and the other comments in the thread, you might be very interested in these other posts on this weblog and these other weblogs.

There are more than 5 posts after yours in this thread; click here to see them.

Here's a consolidated follow-up list for all the comments you made this month across all the weblogs we serve.
[a klog apart]

WebKreator - Instant Webservices with PHP and XML-RPC!

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:43:35 GMT

This sounds cool: code to create XMLRPC services for existing PHP classes!

[via newsisfree.com]

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:12:05 GMT

Dave asks:

Here's a feature request cast into the wind, not for anyone in particular. When I post a comment on weblog, as I do more often these days, I'd like to be notified when someone else posts to the same item, or perhaps the same weblog. It would automate something I do manually now. It would require a lot of cooperation to make such a feature work. [Scripting News]

It's a good idea. How would you like to be notified? Email seems kind of clunky. It would be nice if my 2WayApp (see my comment and others) could either pop up a notification or -- even less obtrusive -- keep a running list of responses on comment threads that I've participated in.

Email notification actually wouldn't be that difficult to implement. There are comment posting systems that do this already. But they're annoying. The second method involves creating some infrastructure to deal with this and (like Dave says) requires a fair amount of cooperation and coordination.

Restructuring email discussions

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:35:14 GMT

Ever get stuck on a long-winded email thread that you don't really care about, but can't get off the list (or don't want to unsubscribe temporarily)? Too much effort to make up a rule? (And don't want to risk losing mail after the conversation finally dies but you forget to remove the rule?)

How about saving mail? Pain to search through it. Can't save it all. It's not categorized unless you're pathological about separating (and then it's a lot of work).

Why not filter all your mail through a special passthrough server? It stores messages like articles, lets you use it like IM when you want to, lets you ignore messages for later/delete messages/delete spam/save permanently/categorize/get notification/share(forward)/display to public(mail lists)/and more. Works like a discussion server with transport over POP/SMTP (optionally SOAP -- with app support).