Archive for February, 2004

I'm quite liking Doxygen. Feels like Javadoc done right. I never liked having to manually feed files to javadoc, but Doxygen has a handy dandy UI to recursively feed it directories and files, and has all kinds of pattern matching and filtering at the file level. Cool. There's even a MacOSX package that includes the... »

I was just trawling the apache access logs on commons.ucalgary.ca, trying to see how the new website is behaving, and came across this gem in the search query section of awstats: i am trying to write a short paragraph on about myself in self-efficacy. please help me. Looking more closely, the query came from Yahoo! Search,... »

Tim Bray is right on with this (and welcome back to North America, Tim!). People don't want to have to muck around with 15 fields and widgets in a search form. How on earth would I know if the term I'm looking for is in the Title, Creator, Description, URL, whatever field? Unless I already... »

I'm popping up for air, and seeing that a whole lot of stuff has been going on... I've been under a heavy load of artificial urgency - and just recently realized that things are actually progressing quite well despite it all. Lately, I'm finding it harder and harder to keep this artificial urgency in perspective... »