What if it is not the things that are changing so fast, but our ability to reflect and think long-term that has nearly vanished?
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email: emilis.d@gmail.com web: http://emilis.github.io/
Every time I have to use it I am thinking of making a mirror of it.
If you bought it, you own it. Period. Just do whatever you want.
It doesn't matter what the "commercial dude" wants. He's acting silly. You should laugh to his face. Literally or metaphoricly. In public. If he gets angrier it just shows other people what an asshole he is.
Do you have any plans to make it possible to use an orb for blogging?
One very simple way to turn a wiki into a blog is to add shortcut for "todays page". The shortcut should open page "/blog/yyyy/mm/dd" for editing. It is a killer feature for me in Zim desktop wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/).
You will probably have to add some sort of pages-listing-child-pages, but it shouldn't be very hard. I know, because I have tried it myself for a wiki I have been developing ;-)
It can index more than RSS feeds (you know, government websites ;-)) and uses Lucene/Solr for searching documents.
Our website: http://kaveikiavaldzia.lt/ Source code: http://github.com/emilis/PolicyFeed
I would gladly answer any questions.
First year - 100%, second year - 85%.
Won't do that again :-)
I have been working in a similar desktop on my wide-screen laptop for nearly a year now. I feel much more productive. It took me some time and skills to configure it, but the tools are already available. I use Openbox+Tint2+Conky and some other lightweight utilities. Also Tree Style Tab extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 Since they are talking about getting users to the browser faster, they may as well tweak the browser to work better in this environment.
It is more natural when window/tab hierarchy flows from left to right, than from left and then from top.
- user with JS enabled opens the website and navigates to some inner page
- user with JS copies the url for the inner page (e.g. http://example.org/#foo/bar)
- user with JS sends this url to a friend
- a friend with JS disabled opens the url and does not get the inner page.
Also -- what if a search engine "bookmarks" the page and a user with JS opens it? Do you:
a) redirect him from example.org/foo/bar to exmple.org/#foo/bar or...
b) do you leave the url untouched and wait until the user bookmarks another page as example.org/foo/bar#foo/baz ?
a) -- you waste processing power on visitors from search engines.
b) -- you waste processing power on the next opening of the bookmark. Also this looks like a bug waiting to happen.
Disclosure: I browse with JS turned off (Firefox NoScript extension) and websites that rely on JavaScript when a static page would do annoy me.
Easy to get started, fast, stable, the community is helpful and it is easy to read their source code if you get stuck somewhere.
For the last two months I've been developing a webapp on Helma NG and I like it very much. Parts of the framework fit together nicely. The community on IRC is very helpful and provides answers in the rare cases where source code and documentations is not enough.
I also want to praise the project developers for their code quality -- even though I use a version from git I haven't had a single problem with frequent updating and re-building it.
The original article title and the scientific article title have the word "sex".
Seriously, WTF? I am reminded of "gender mainstreaming" conspiracy theories some of my friends have. Is word "sex" a taboo?
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for October 1, 1997: How Users Read on the Web http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
2. If you think, that word "gay" is somehow humiliating -- invent a new euphemism instead of it, for political correctness sake!
DB Abstraction layer has helped me reuse the same libraries on different DB engines more than once.
I had one occurance when I needed to install my new webapp in a hurry (for demonstration purposes) and couldn't arrange for a database with the server administrator fast. Well... I just changed "mysql" to "sqlite" in my DB config, fixed a few problems with SQL CREATE statements and it worked.
On a side note I also agree with the "PHP is the best templating languge" idea. I just use a template class for it that has a similar API to Smarty.
So yes, I use abstraction layers in both cases. I guess that is more convenient because I do not work on any one web application for too long and I need to carry my libraries and knowledge painlessly from place to place. If I had only one application to build and support at one location... who knows, maybe I would even write php extensions for it in C.
I am also creating a new programming language for the wiki - a mixture of many ideas from lisp, python and other. The language can be expressed by HTML lists.
Working from home in Vilnius, Lithuania. Currently on child-care vacation paid by the state.
I will opensource my work, but haven't found out yet how to make it support my further development after my vacation ends and I have to return to my bank job.
If you have ideas how to make some money from yet another wiki/cms -- I would be very thankful for them.
On the other hand I doubt any of the other few possible states (China or Russia) would turn to such demonstration of force against US unless they had something to gain from it.
What's left then? Some crazy group like 4chan or some errorists? They would be shouting "we did it" before you even heard the news about the attacks.
Oh well... back to square two.
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...)I feel sorry for voting this thing up, before investigating the links in the article.