Archive for August, 2004

Wow. This looks awesome. iLingo Language translation application. It comes with something like 450 phrases in a bunch of languages, and uses the iPod Notes feature to provide a handy translator. It even somehow links to audio versions of phrases. Could be handy if walking in a foreign country, and really need to pronounce... »

I said I'd write up my thoughts on spending one week with OmniWeb 5. Before starting, here's the Coles Notes version: I bought the upgrade license, and have switched to using OmniWeb 5 (almost) 100% (see below for reasons why it's not at a full 100% yet). Here goes: Things I love about... »

Thanks to BoingBoing for the link to this awesome RNC protest sign. I'm not too aware of the American political landscape, but are Democrats just that much geekier than Republicans? There's yet another reason to give Kerry the vote (you know, aside from the whole rigged-2000-election thing and the lying-to-go-to-war thing...) ;-) »

The DirectorWeb website is 10 years old! Holy cow. Time flies. I used to spend a LOT of time on this site, using their Direct-L listserv archive/search utility, back when I was doing ~100% Director stuff. Alan did an awesome job on DirectorWeb, so much so that I considered it essential to doing Director... »

It's only been a day, but I'm really liking OmniWeb 5. I had one crash, but other than that it's been flawless. The extra features are great (edit HTML then refresh the browser window - on any website!). Love the thumbnail tab view. Love the speed and ad-blocking. Hate the lack of Safari's cool... »

I finally got a version of the JavaEOXMLSupport.framework working to the level that it could actually be used in a project. The previous version was usable for read-only cases, but was pretty useless for editing/writing XML. I had to rethink the strategy a bit. The previous strategy treated every Element in a document as an... »

Prior to Safari, I was a die-hard OmniWeb 4 (then 4.5) user. I really liked OmniWeb, but Safari was much better (IMHO) at things like bookmark management. I've been following OmniWeb's development, and really like some of the new stuff (using WebKit means pages render correctly, the new tab implementation looks pretty sweet, workspaces should... »

I'm clearing my whiteboard, and need the space this was occupying, so I'm dumping it here for future reference. The following table compares the time it takes to retrieve XML from various sources (XML databases and the like) as well as to perform various types of processing (nothing, save as file, convert to DOM...).... »

Tonight, I got the XStreamDB EOAdaptor firing on almost all cylinders. It has been able to query and retrieve XML documents for quite some time now, but it can now also update (replace existing documents with edited versions) and insert new documents. It's not extremely tested yet, so there may be some pitfalls or... »

Thanks to Rick's Cafe, I came across this awesome sounding conference. KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING (KSCE 2004) - November 22-24, 2004 St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands From the conference website: The International Conference on Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering (KSCE 2004) will highlight advances in the research and present day applications of knowledge sharing... »