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	Wednesday, March 26, 2003

 Footnotes - like image maps on steroids?

Footnotes looks like a pretty cool tool. It's free! (Thats always a bonus). It seems to be a tool that allows you to make stories out of jpgs, sort of like image maps on steroids. I'll have to give that a try and finally document my Ireland trip from last September.

10:03:55 AM  comment [] |

 POI

Andy is using blojsom coupled with POI. POI is a jakarta project which consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.

Hallelujah. I wonder if POI can help me disect our company's Outlook Address book without using a Visual Basic Cdo.dll bridge?

9:59:25 AM  comment [] | Topics: Java MSOutlook 

 htmlArea

I just stumbled upon htmlArea. It turns any <textarea> into a WYSIWYG editor. This could help me make a nice jsp for entering new posts for our intranet blojsom weblog.

Blojsom was almost a home-run with my boss. It has categories, it is clean, fast and simple. Then he asked, "how do you make a new post"? Ugh. You see, I want to permit posting to our blojsom blog even if the users do not have access to the server it is hosted on. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard, just haven't gotten around to it.

I showed my boss that you can post by simply creating a text file and saving it to the proper directory. "So I have to write html? Maybe I should learn html....." No, he doesn't have to learn html, but I see trouble ahead. He will want to bold, italicize, decorate his posts and will be frustrated when he cannot. I know he will not have the patience to learn html, and I dread the MS-Word generated html that might slip in.

It is so funny working with low-level C programmers. They entered the field long before the internet bubble. They never had to learn html. They love MS FrontPage. Ahh, what to do...

9:51:29 AM  comment [] | Topics: intranet HTML Weblogs