Archive for February, 2008

links for 2008-02-27

27th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

media-metadata-examples – Microformats
An extensive survey of the many ways in which media is made available on the Internet and how its metadata is represented.
(tags: metadata reference photo video webservices)

links for 2008-02-25

25th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Test your web design in different browsers – Browsershots
Produce screenshots of a web site from a wide variety of browsers and OSes.
(tags: graphics design css service)

links for 2008-02-24

24th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: mod_enclosure
FOrmat for enclosures in RSS 1.0
(tags: rdf service)

Architectural Principles — Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

23rd February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Here is one of the introductory slides I gave in a recent project proposal presentation.
These are the principles that have made the Internet and the Web successful, and which I think are also important for my proposed project.

Architectural Principles

Simplicity

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler” (Einstein)

Robustness

“Be conservative in what you do, [...]

links for 2008-02-23

23rd February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Magpie RSS – PHP RSS Parser
Claims to parse Atom and most variants of RSS
(tags: code php programming library s:waitingon @online)

links for 2008-02-19

19th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)
Interesting paper by DB pioneer Michael Stonebraker arguing that it is time to abandon conventional relational databases.
(tags: database architecture s:waitingon @online)

panoramic video 360 cities by jeffrey martin
Amazing video where you can control the camera left-right and up-down in 360 degrees.
(tags: video)

links for 2008-02-18

18th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Export to World * Home
bits-to-atoms, another way
(tags: technology)

links for 2008-02-16

16th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Image management for my common workflow | Brad Ideas
Wishlist for photo management UI and workflow
(tags: photo)

CakePHP: the rapid development php framework. Home
Bringing a Rails-like aproach to PHP.
(tags: php library design code)

links for 2008-02-14

14th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

iamcal.com / talks
Excellent set of talks on how to build scalable web applications by Flickr’s Cal Henderson.
(tags: architecture database programming scaling)

MogileFS
The distributed file system originally developed for LiveJournal.
(tags: architecture deployment library)

links for 2008-02-13

13th February 2008 by eamonn 1 Comment

Pixenate – Online Photo Editor
(tags: ajax flash photo web2.0)

http://www.gliffy.com/gliffy/
Online diagram editor — including UML
(tags: service graphics web2.0)

nooked » the world’s first distributed feedcommerce platform
Making money from RSS
(tags: ireland startup service webservices business)

log5j – Google Code
Nice simple and useful layer on top of log4j
(tags: java library)

thatsmymouse (Beta) Home
Cool Javascript sharing of mouse movement between different users [...]

links for 2008-02-11

11th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Hoopla! » Application Error – Rails application failed to start properly
How to get rails working at Dreamhost
(tags: ruby rubyonrails guide deployment)

Powerful Web Services Through Composition — web-calculus
Tyler’s great paper on REST-based web service composition
(tags: architecture design webservices)

Facial recognition slipped into Google image search
Get face detection by adding &imgtype=face to end of Google Image search URL.
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-02-10

10th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

posh – Microformats
Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) — useful guidelines

(tags: design)

links for 2008-02-09

9th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Grand Challenges for Engineering
To be revealed on Feb 15..
(tags: science technology)

mydigimedia by Amy L. Webb
Handy reference for what corporations own what Web 2.0 sites.
(tags: web2.0 business news reference)

Photographic Memories – Interviews with U.S. Mom bloggers
HP features mom bloggers and their Flickr photographs.
(tags: hp photo)

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab
Perhaps I’ll go to this panel discussion “Shaking the Money [...]

links for 2008-02-05

5th February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0
Spec for RDF variant of RSS
(tags: programming rdf web2.0 reference metadata)

TWiki . Javawsxml . Rome05TutorialFeedWriter
Creating a feed using the ROME library
(tags: programming tutorial java library metadata)

links for 2008-02-02

2nd February 2008 by eamonn No Comments

developing a facebook app locally :: snax
(tags: programming facebook ruby rubyonrails social tutorial)