Rich Web UI: Search As You Type

Yesterday I talked a little about rich web UIs. I wasn’t the only one, apparantly, after the release of “Google Suggest”:http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en the whole web-development-involved “blogosphere” is talking about it.

Software Pricing

Joel sat down behind his PC, waved his hands a little and low and behold, there it was: another essay. This time it’s on software pricing and confusingly enough entitled “Camels and Rubber Duckies”:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html. Why that is becomes clear when…

Zope

I heard many positive stories about “Ruby on Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org, the trouble is that I’m not so fond of Ruby. “Python”:http://www.pyhon.org is much cooler, but why doesn’t it have a cool framework like that? Then I realized… wait, isn’t one of the better web application servers built on Python?

Software Variability Management Workshop

I spent the past two days in the 2004 “Software Variability Management Workshop”:http://www.rug.nl/informatica/onderzoek/programmas/softwareEngineering/SVM2004 that our university organised. Many (or possibly even most) of the people around the world who…

MSN Desktop Search Launched

Yesterday night (my time), Microsoft has released a beta version of MSN Desktop Search. MSN Desktop Search is Microsoft’s answer to “Google Desktop Search”:http://desktop.google.com. Personally I think it’s also something meant as a temporary replacement for WinFS. Of course…

We Need a Client-Side Web Framework

Webapplications need to be enriched. A couple of months ago I thought what we had back then was about as rich as we could get, but since Google started to write rich web applications I believe we can do a lot better than what we’re doing right now. Have a look at…

It’s the Platform Stupid

Back when people still programmed in assembly, life was easy. The language was simple and there was no API(Application Programmable Interface) to speak of. In pascal it’s more or less the same. The language isn’t too complicated and the standard API isn’t that big. It’s largely…

Code Formatter I’m Working On

Yep, I’ve been programming a little in the past few days. A couple of months ago I “talked a little about post formatting”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/09/20/post-formatting and how I thought the BB-codes that today are used (like [b]bla bla bla[/b] for bold) are…

The True Power of Open Source

Something what’s considered to be one of the major strengths of open source, is that you can modify the source code to suit your needs. If something doesn’t work the way you want it to, you can change it. If you find a bug, you can fix it. Great huh?

Some Python Links

I have been looking around for some interesting Python resources today and this is what I found:

* “Python vs PHP”:http://wiki.w4py.org/pythonvsphp.html
* “Guido van Rossum’s weblog”:http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=guido (kinda dead)
* “Python at…