Friday, April 25, 2003

To answer Scoble's question: RM Radio seems to use the same HTML control then Radio, so I my guess is, FM Radio will generate exactly the same HTML as Radio itself.      Radio UserLand users: has anyone tried out FM Radio yet? I'm a hand coder, but this looks like it fills a major hole in Radio. Does this thing write standards-compliant HTML? [Scobleizer] Thanks to Scoble for the link. Installed the 30 day trial. I don't know how many times I've lost my posts while typing them inside Radio's web UI. FM Radio fixes one huge problem with Radio - absence of standalone client for publishing. But that's about it. Should I pay for this fix? Let's see now... I already pay 40$ to Dave (per year), 30$ to Greg. Now SocialDynamX wants me to pay another 40$. That's 70$ out of my pocket to fix Dave's product bugs. That's 100$ Canadian!      The value of any ontology can be measured by the number of applications that use it. GOF book represents of the best introduction of a new ontology i've seen so far. By now design pattern terminology as defined by this book is firmly embedded in developer's vocabulary. Take Cooper's seminal book "About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design" for example. Cooper defined a rich and comprehensive set of terms to describe elements and concepts of user interface. Fast forward a couple of years. Have you heard any developer say "But out application is sovereign! Why do we start it pluralized???" Very few people talk about user interface in terms of Cooper's ontology. I have great expectation about Fowler's book on patterns of enterprise architecture. I think Fowler's ontology of enterprise patters has a real chance of becoming integral part of vocabulary of enterprise developers. It is great to see MSDN patterns site (via Harry Pierson) running with Fowler's ontology.

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