By ashvil on 5/28/2001 7:56 PM

Jon Udell talks about using weblogs as Project management tools.

By ashvil on 5/24/2001 10:22 PM

Antarcti.ca\'s Visual Net  software transforms networks into places; data into virtual maps. Visual Net creates maps of networks to help users visualize data and find what they\'re looking for.

By ashvil on 5/17/2001 11:57 AM

It funny but people give different responses on the same question depending on the context. That I always feel that asking a user a hypotetical set of questions is never going to get you the right answer. The best method as Jeff describes is to put the tool in the users\' hands and watch them use it and learn from that experience.

By ashvil on 5/16/2001 4:19 PM

The Simple Object Access Protocol, better known as SOAP, is aimed squarely at this data consolidation problem. Recently approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), SOAP uses XML and HTTP to define a component interoperability standard on the Web.

By ashvil on 5/16/2001 4:57 AM

Tapestry is a new, powerful, all-Java framework for creating leading edge web applications in Java. This is the closest someone has come to using the IDBA style of templates for web app development.

By ashvil on 5/12/2001 3:51 PM

A good article on creating client interfaces for .NET Web Services.

By ashvil on 4/25/2001 8:18 AM

Simputer is a very low-cost computer built around a design licensed under terms similar to that of the GPL. The intent behind Simputer is to provide low-cost (<$200) machines to people living in rural India. The interview here is with various members of the Simputer team and they discuss the reasoning behind the licensing scheme they chose, the design decisions they made, and more.

By ashvil on 4/17/2001 7:59 PM

Joel says : Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like \"Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music\" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it\'s interesting because it\'s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it\'s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

By ashvil on 4/5/2001 2:02 PM

Dan says - Rather than make interacting with the computer act like a conversation with an assistant, make it like a tool you use yourself.

Dan invents the term transparent UI.

MS Word and Excel are both examples of transparent UI. If you bold face a character, it shows you that. It does not try to do anything wierd when you put a formula to calculate the sum of 4 cells in Excel. You have a comfortable feeling that you are in control and not the tool. (OK - the paper clip changed that, but that got shot down).

By ashvil on 3/31/2001 11:58 PM

RFC1149

From the RFC -
Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service. The connection topology is limited to a single point-to-point path for each carrier, used with standard carriers, but many carriers can be used without significant interference with each other, outside of early spring. This is because of the 3D ether space available to the carriers, in contrast to the 1D ether used by IEEE802.3. The carriers have an intrinsic collision avoidance system, which increases availability. Unlike some network technologies, such as packet radio, communication is not limited to line-of-sight distance. Connection oriented service is available in some cities, usually based upon a central hub topology.

Implementation
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup.html
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/bilder/

Should MS support this in the next version of Windows?