Monthly Archives: April 2006

Complexity kills

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft CTO: Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. (via 37signals)

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Men and arbitrary goals

Posted on April 4, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

An interesting factoid from this recording of a Kathy Sierra talk: Computer game designers have long known that levels are essential to keep players motivated. Reaching the next level is the player’s reward for all his hard work. But while … Continue reading →

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The mother of all screenscrapers

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

The folks at the Simile project always seem to have a cool project or two up their sleeves. Have a look of this three-minute screencast of Sifter, a Firefox extension built by David Huynh. It’s kind of hard to explain … Continue reading →

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SourceForge downtime

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

SourceForge site status: On 2006-03-30 the developer CVS server had a hardware issue that required us to take the service offline. We are actively working on this problem and hope to have it back up soon. There is not a … Continue reading →

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Bill Siggelkow on StatCVS

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Bill Siggelkow: I was trying to figure out how to automate, in some fashion, the creation of release notes. My project is using CVS so I could get a dump of commit messages using cvs log. But the CVS log … Continue reading →

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Physical Wikipedia

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Semapedia looks pretty cool. The idea is to attach Wikipedia “links” to real-world objects, e.g. famous buildings. At the web site, you can print out a sheet of paper with a barcode-like encoding of a Wikipedia link which you can … Continue reading →

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High-level data models: Apple’s Core Data

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

There’s a cool video tutorial for Core Data at Apple’s developer site. Core Data is a part of the Apple technology toolbox that lets developers define an application data model without writing code. Basically, all they have to do is … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 goes mainstream

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

This just in: My mom asked me, “What’s this RSS thing I keep hearing about?”

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Google Circles

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Google Circles is the latest beta service to come out of Google Labs. It shows what people in certain geographic locations and in certain organizations are searching for. Is there anything interesting to learn from this? Well, folks at google.com … Continue reading →

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