MyYahoo Now Supports RSS. You can add the Blogs module from this page…. [Lockergnome’s RSS Resource]
Writing Software [1].
Writing Software. ONLamp.com offers 5 lessons open-source developers should learn from Extreme Programming: 1. Test, Test, Test 2. Practice Simplicity 3. Refactor, Don’t Rewrite 4. Release Frequently 5. Be the Customer, When Appropriate [E M E R G I C . o r g]
Clay Shirky on Wikis [1].
Clay Shirky on Wikis. Writes Shirky: “A wiki in the hands of a healthy community works. A wiki in the hands of an indifferent community fails. The software makes no attempt to add ‘process’ in order to keep people from doing stupid things. Instead, it provides more flexibility, a crazy amount of flexibility, and intoxicating amount of flexibility, allowing massive…
Analyzing card sort results with…
Analyzing card sort results with a spreadsheet template. Joe Lamantia has written an article on analyzing card sort results with a spreadsheet. To quote: This article explains how to quickly derive easily-read, quantitative results from a card-sort activity by entering data into a spreadsheet template that is adaptable… [Column Two]
Negotiating [1].
Negotiating. Inc writes on an activity we do all the time, providing insights into various books on the topic along the way: Like most every other source of negotiation advice, Getting to Yes begins by saying that however much you think negotiation is part of your life, you’re underestimating. “Everyone negotiates something every day,” according to the introduction. “All of…
Screen Scraping for RSS [1].
Screen Scraping for RSS. Phil Windley points to a post by Bill Humphries: “He’s using curl to get the page, tidy to clean up the HTML, and an XSL program to convert the result into RSS. Because the example he’s using is making good use of CSS, he can use XPATH to easily grab the right nodes in the HTML…
DevArticles: You Oughta Be Makin’…
DevArticles: You Oughta Be Makin’ Pictures. Image galleries are one of the most popular kinds of sites out there on the internet today. Even Apple got into the act by providing a gallery in their .Mac accounts. Now, thanks to DevArticles, you can roll your own with PHP and GD quickly and easily. [PHPDeveloper.org]
FotoKey [1]. My friend Paul…
FotoKey. My friend Paul English is writing photo gallery software because he hasn’t found any that suits all his needs, including: “three sizes of each photo, keyboard navigation, netflix-style starbar ratings, email, shutterfly upload, EXIF camera settings info, and CSS templates.” He says: Fotokey is for people who already have their own website, and want their photos on their own…
Need to review:
Need to review: Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet
why i still hate wikis…
why i still hate wikis. <rant> I?m not posting this on Many-to-Many, despite the fact that it?s really a follow up to my other posts there. I don?t want to stir the pot and start a debate right now. I just want to express my extreme frustration with trying to use a wiki, before I explode. Tonight Dorothea and I…