February 2005 Archives

• TextDrive Weblog: Benchmarking lighttpd
  lighttpd's amazing performance results from my wonderful new hosts, on their interesting company weblog, lots more about lighttpd and rubyonrails on the weblog
  (categories: lighttpd rubyonrails benchmark apache textdrive)
• Hieraki
  collaborative book writing tool based on wiki principles and a hierarchy, sure beats track changes in word
  (categories: hieraki collaborative writing rubyonrails wiki)

The ACM is the Association of Computing Machinery, the American professional computer society. I've been a member before, but recently rejoined to gain access to their digital library, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Real downloadable conference papers and journal articles on every computer related topic under the sun. All, in pursuit of information for my two etcon/etech papers.
There is a free service, but it is limited to search and abstract only, joining the ACM is about 100 dollars, then I think it is better to join some SIGs rather than the library, I joined SIGCHI and SIGWEB and get access to all relevant papers via the two SIG affiliations. I've been feeling like an academic again, which is nice.

• Faceted Classification - Simple Implementation with CGI Script in Perl
  great tool for experimentation
  (categories: faceted clasification experiment script)
• Use a faceted interface
  another overview of faceted classification
  (categories: faceted classification)
• OpenKnowledgeForums - OKF Wiki
  Interesting looking range of meetings in London on open data, one on 17th on Civic info, one in April on geodata
  (categories: openknowledgeforum london open data)

• Joel on Software - Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother?
  Counterpoint the the 37Signals approach, though essentially sayingthe same thing, planning is good, but there can be to much
  (categories: software development functional)
• Getting Real, Step 1: No Functional Spec (Signal vs. Noise)
  Jason Fried of 37signals on a visually led approach to developing software, will fail if there is a lot of backend DB work involved I think, but a good approach nonetheless
  (categories: software development functional interaction design)

• an analysis of the meaning in Jon Bon Jovi lyrics
  Dan excels himself on this one, very funny
  (categories: jonbonjovi critical_analysis funny)
• Cat Herding advert from a previous SuperBowl by EDS
  lovely details, like the guy sneezing and the other guy getting fluff off his injured arm
  (categories: cats herding advert eds superbowl)

• qwghlm.co.uk: qwghlmBlog: 2001 Election Map of the UK
  Lovely visualisation of the spread of voting during the UK 2001 election
  (categories: 2001 uk election visualization)

• brandchannel.com | Global Brand Rankings by Impact 2004
  notes on the main global brands by region, interesting reading, a sort of company biopic for the year
  (categories: brand global 2004)

• Neil's World - Temporary trackback spam solution
  seems very successful so far, no trackback spam since
  (categories: trackback spam htaccess)