Archive for June, 2003

Just came across iVideo on freshmeat. I downloaded it to see what it does, and lo and behold: it captures DV video from my iSight camera! I just captured a short (9 second) but huge (180MB) video clip, and it looks like it's a standard DV file (QT Player opened it - I didn't... »

First, a little haiku: conference is over. brain is full. too much info. rush now to write code. It was a completely amazing conference. King and I have been talking about some stuff that is making my head spin a bit. Seriously, this is going to take some time to sink in. The next version of the repository is... »

WWDC continues to rock. Totally like drinking from a firehose... A LOT of info here. King and I just met with some WO folks about some issues we've been facing on the next version of CAREO and they were extremely helpful (thanks Andreas, Bill & Scott!!!) Some interesting sessions this afternoon, then down to... »

We arrived at SFO just fine yesterday. Took the BART from the airport to Powell, and it turns out it was the first day for the airport leg of BART to be open. Celebrations and camera crews everywhere. Weird. Walked around downtown SF last night. Man. Those hills are one heck of a workout. Climbed... »

Tim Bray just posted some of his experiences in building a web search engine, and how people use simple vs. advanced search. It's a good (and short) read. I've noticed a similar pattern of usage, although I don't have any form of statistics to back it up. Looking through the logs in CAREO, hardly anyone... »

Alan links to a link linked by another link... suggesting that RSS may be the next killer app for education (what was the first/previous one?) P.S. Hinterlands? ow. »

I've got XStreamDB up and running, storing over 2000 IMS metadata records, as well as a few DublinCore and RSS files to test out multi-schema queries. It works like a charm. It's got full text indices on all metadata stores (I've created roots for each schema - analogous to tables in RDBMS land). I've added... »

This link to an article on Micah's weblog came to me via Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students. The summary is a nice overview of how peripheral knowledge (i.e., not "core") helps us to understand our way through the world. First, the more the periphery is engaged, the smarter we are . No amount of conscious... »

I've got some time to play with XStreamDB now, so I'm working on the EOAdaptor that King started, trying to flesh out the functionality for use in CAREO/Extreme. The fun part will be mapping EOQualifiers normally intended for SQL-ish things into invoking XQuery-ish things... It may not be difficult after all, but there is definitely... »

I just stumbled across this while poking around the new java.net community website. James Gosling has started blogging. No RSS feed (yet), but it should be an interesting read. UPDATE: There is an RSS feed, after all. »