Posts Tagged ‘ Web2.0 ’
The semantic web is poised to influence us in ways that will be as radical as the early days of the Internet and World Wide Web. For software developers it will involve a paradigm shift, bringing new ways of thinking about the problems that we solve, and more-importantly bringing us new bags of tricks to [ READ MORE ]
Alec recently agonized about whether he says anything worthwhile in his blog, or whether a blog was the right medium for the kind of things he wanted to say: Do I say anything worthwhile in this blog? « Alec the Geek Well, the short answer is an unqualified ‘yes‘. The long answer (based on our own [ READ MORE ]
Today I had record stats on my blog. I passed the 200 hits per day threshold. Since Mitch Denny told me the kind of visitor numbers he got on his blog, I’ve been operating with a bit of an inferiority complex. At the time I was peaking at about 20 hits per day and at [ READ MORE ]
While I was out trawling the web, I came upon extisp.ico.us – an extremely cool little CGI app to render a tag cloud of a user’s public links in del.icio.us. Check it out on a friend’s collection – it gives you an insight into their mind. As Aymeric, who sits beside me, said when he [ READ MORE ]
It appears that Boo has reincarnated to drag us down, once again. Of course, it won’t be possible without the help of Aggy Finn who was with them at the time*. This is how he escaped last time: If the contractor wages go down to 10GBP/hr again, Aggy, I shall be blaming you!!!!! * Needless [ READ MORE ]
Live Labs has now put Photosynth on display to the public. You can’t add your own photos yet, but the interface is everything that they promised. I can’t wait to be able to use this on my own photos. I think it will change the way I use my camera. With this interface I will [ READ MORE ]
Here is a nice thing. A blog posting tool called PostXING. Alledgedly it has source code formatting built into it. Lets give it a try. public void OnChooseSomething() { IsChosen = true; if(ChooseThingClicked != null) ChooseThingClicked(this, null); } Sweet. It has CodeHTMLer built in. You just hit the syntax highlight [ READ MORE ]
I’m not peeved any more – I’m contrite. WordPress doesn’t provide nice pre tag CSS, because it is XHTML compliant and supports the code tag. Not only that they just added a sweet new HTML editor that will make your posts XHTML compliant for you in the background. All is forgiven. Thank god I didn’t [ READ MORE ]
For the edification of the collective attentionstream, I have decided to quote for you the ineffable value additions and polysyllabic formulations of the “System One” post-microchunked formats – with a translation. “Our services strategically develop your organization’s knowledge as a production factor in order to make optimal use of it. The core of our service portfolio [ READ MORE ]
I am peeved. I have been writing this very long, very code-intensive blog post, and no matter what fiddling I do, I can’t get it to display the code properly. The code comes out at around 18px high. I thought it might be the post preview system in WordPress, but now I know why code [ READ MORE ]
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