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Intuitive Ranking
Intuitive Ranking01/25/2003 12:37 AM From Amazon to Google to Daypop, there is a demand for accurately
ranked content.
As a result, most Content Management Solutions include a ranking
feature. Typically, this involves a call to action for users to rate
the content they are looking at.
They could have made this less intuitive...
They could have made this less intuitive...08/13/2004 09:22 PM I'm a sucker for humorous ways to point out usability mistakes. But
for some reason I read this line today and laughed my ass off: They
could have made this less intuitive, but then it would involve a trip
for a smog check. Apparently I had forgotten how unintuitive setting
the default browser in Panther is. Luckily I've only done it once.
Either way, I need to make sure to use that line sometime soon.
Another line that someone used...
Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool03/27/2005 11:37 PM The file-search tool in Windows XP is a dog, and not just
metaphorically -- a little animated puppy appears on screen to
indicate your query's status by wagging its tail, panting, scratching
itself and other actions.
If only Microsoft's programmers had put such effort into the rest of
this software! Its searches run painfully slowly and routinely yield
masses of unrelated files.
A gaggle of contenders has recently put forth replacements for
Microsoft's search. Some are popular Web portals -- Ask Jeeves, Google
and Yahoo. Some are small, obscure developers -- Copernic and Blinkx.
One's a division of Microsoft itself, its MSN Internet service.
High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive
High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive02/11/2004 03:58 AM For a PHP weblog, there haven't been many PHP articles or links
recently. This is because I feel most recent PHP articles I read have
nothing fresh to say, repeating material I linked to 2 or 3 years ago.
Perhaps I'm getting jaded. So to keep things fresh, here's a new
article, mostly original, and hopefully of some interest to everyone!
Last year, Tim Bray, one of the co-authors of the XML spec,
mentioned that he used Perl regular expressions to parse
XML.
Now here's the dirty secret; most of it is
machine-generated XML, and in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine
to read and process it.
I was struck by this because I would have thought XPath or SAX
would provide better performance
as they are APIs tuned specifically for XML.
I decided to do some benchmarks to determine which techniques were
better. I also wanted a realistic test, so I benchmarked parsing the
RSS feed of this
web-site, searching for the contents of all title tags, and returning
the contents as an array. The RSS file is from Nov 2003 (yes i did
this benchmark that long ago), and is about 20K and has 12 title tags,
so the returned array will have 12 title strings.
2. Explode('<title>', $rss) then strip the matching </title>
tag using strpos() and substr().
3. XPath, using $title_nodes = $ctx->xpath_eval("//title");
4. SAX, wrote an element handler function that matched and
processed the title tag.
5. DOM, using $titles = $dom->get_elements_by_tagname('title').
Intuitively, this should have been the slowest, as the whole tree is
generated.
Results
Here are the timings for processing the RSS file 1000 times. Faster
is better.
seconds Relative
to REGEX
REGEX 0.1080 1.00
EXPLODE 0.1696 1.57
DOM 6.3212 58.53
XPATH 8.3417 77.24
SAX 10.0851 93.38
Conclusion
Intutively, I would have thought that XPath would be the fastest
as XPath expressions can be compiled and tuned for XML. But the best
performance was achieved using regular expressions, which is
what Tim is using.
It appears that the DOM, SAX and XPath libraries remain immature
(compared to the Perl-compatible regex library) and are not highly
optimized. Strangely enough, DOM performance is better than XPath and
SAX! Perhaps someone else can explain why.
If anyone is interested, i can post the source.
Test platform: Windows 2000, PHP 4.3.3. I also tested on Linux, PHP
4.3.2, with similar results.
Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool (washingtonpost.com)
Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool (washingtonpost.com)03/26/2005 06:45 PM washingtonpost.com - The file-search tool in Windows XP is a dog, and
not just metaphorically -- a little animated puppy appears on screen
to indicate your query's status by wagging its tail, panting,
scratching itself and other actions.
Altiris Intuitive > Manageability Newsletter - July 2002
VISANOW Continues Revolutionizing Immigration Process With New Technology Release - VISANOW® 2005 Incorporates Customer Feedback, Industry Needs and Intuitive Technology
Broadlook--#1 CRM Software Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and fill your CRM Software with contact management relationships.
Broadlook--#1 CRM Software Solution--Empowers your CRM Software and fill your CRM Software with contact management relationships.06/18/2004 03:03 AM Whichever CRM software your company uses, you need to look at the
Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with
whichever CRM software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set
of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful
real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your
CRM software. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]
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Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top Award for Best Print Management Software, Best Price, Best Quality in the Industry American-British Company Software Shelf Receives Software Award
Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top Award for Best Print Management Software, Best Price, Best Quality in the Industry American-British Company Software Shelf Receives Software Award05/31/2004 02:14 PM Software Shelf International, Inc., an American and British software
development and marketing company today announced that its flagship
product, Print Manager Plus(R), has won the coveted Sunbelt W2KNews
Top Award for Print Management Software. The award is presented at
Microsoft's Tech.Ed 2004 for Best print management software, Best
price, and Best quality in the industry. The Award was won as a result
of voting from over 500,000 W2K News subscribers consisting of Windows
NT/2000/2003 Administrators, MIS Managers, MCPs, MCSEs and IT
professionals around the world. Print Manager Plus solves the problem
of the hidden cost of printing in organizations. According to
Datamation document costs consume up to 15% of a company's revenues.
Print Manager Plus reduces these costs. [PRWEB May 26, 2004]
Cygnus Software Integrates Their IncomeMax Needs Analysis and Financial Planning Software with Act4Advisors
Cygnus Software Integrates Their IncomeMax Needs Analysis and Financial Planning Software with Act4Advisors06/22/2005 03:00 AM Cygnus Software Inc., a provider of practical, insurance and financial
planning sales solutions, and Allied Financial Software, provider of
customized ACT! software, have partnered to provide their users the
ability to automatically populate an IncomeMax financial planning case
with customer information stored in a Act4Advisors contact management
database. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]
Sixth Sense Software Releases New Versions of Macintosh Point of Sale Software
Sixth Sense Software Releases New Versions of Macintosh Point of Sale Software09/21/2004 02:49 AM Sixth Sense Software Co. Inc. has released Version 6 of its Macintosh
point of sale software, Sixth Sense POS for retail and wholesale
operations, and Sixth Sense Cafe for restaurant and food service
operations. [PRWEB Sep 21, 2004]
LandlordMax Software Inc. Releases a Brand New Version of its Award Winning Software
LandlordMax Software Inc. Releases a Brand New Version of its Award Winning Software09/07/2004 02:47 AM LandlordMax continues to build on its award winning property
management software by releasing its latest major version, LandlordMax
V1.08. This new version has been greatly influenced by the feedback
and comments of its users, mainly through the company's Idea
Initiative Program. The results of this Idea Initiative Program can
really be seen in the latest version of LandlordMax's accounting
section of the software, where major enhancements are evident. In
addition, the software now also boasts over 100 distinct reports.
Already thriving with sales in multiple countries across the world,
LandlordMax has been recognized and sold to small and large investors,
property managers, as well as banks. The latest release is already
proving to be more successful than anticipated as measured by the
general buzz and the increasing number of downloads of the software.
[PRWEB Sep 7, 2004]
Software Link Joins Best Software’s Business Partner Advisory Council
My Software Library Launches Online Resource Center And Software Store
My Software Library Launches Online Resource Center And Software Store12/29/2004 03:27 AM Global software retailer and information source, My Software Library,
launched its new online resource center and software store this month.
The site, located at www.mysoftwarelibrary.com caters to a growing
population of adults and parents who aren't as technically savvy as
the generation that follows them. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]
Akamai Software Releases New Version of SwordSearcher Bible Study Software
Akamai Software Releases New Version of SwordSearcher Bible Study Software08/12/2004 02:23 AM Akamai Software has released version 4.5 of SwordSearcher, a Bible
study application for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. SwordSearcher provides
users with many tools to enhance Bible study, with an intuitive
interface that is easy to learn and use, for both devotional and
in-depth study. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
ImageLink Incorporated Continues to Expand Software Division with Hit Inspector Web Traffic Analysis Software
Parallel Technologies Releases New USB Software -USB Info™ - The Ultimate Software Utility and Tool for USB Devices
Parallel Technologies Releases New USB Software -USB Info™ - The Ultimate Software Utility and Tool for USB Devices04/07/2005 02:41 PM USB Info allows the user to view, browse, explore, benchmark, test,
and troubleshoot their USB Devices, all in one comprehensive and
feature rich software utility. USB Info is the most comprehensive and
feature rich software utility for USB Devices -- no other software
currently available has all the features and capabilities of USB Info.
[PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]
REAL Software Introduces Resources to Help Visual Basic Developers Convert Their Software to Linux and Mac OS X
REAL Software Introduces Resources to Help Visual Basic Developers Convert Their Software to Linux and Mac OS X07/21/2004 10:53 AM REAL Software, Inc., announced today the availability of resources
that help Visual Basic developers migrate their applications to Linux
and Macintosh. The resources include a new white paper, "Porting
Visual Basic Applications Cross-Platform to Linux and Mac OS X, A
Guide for Visual Basic Developers" and a conversion utility, called VB
Project Converter, that performs the mechanics of moving Visual Basic
projects to REALbasic.
AEwebworks Dating Software Development Ltd. Releases a Brand New Version of its Award Winning Software
AEwebworks Dating Software Development Ltd. Releases a Brand New Version of its Award Winning Software09/13/2004 03:06 AM AEwebworks continues to upgrade its dating software with fast-growing
list of supported features. aeDating 3.0 incorporates most of the
benefits of earlier versions and offers principally new abilities to
dating industry entrepreneurs. Now aeDating comes with more design
templates, more countries zip and postal codes support, and credits,
banners rotation and plug-in systems. This new version has been
greatly influenced by the feedback and comments of its users, and
research conducted by AEwebworks Research Group. The latest release is
already proving to be more successful than anticipated as measured by
the general buzz and the increasing number of sales of the software.
[PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]
Goda Software Ships New Version of Project Management Life Cycle Software Tool
MCG Releases TakeCharge Software - A Breakthrough in Software Development Makes Cash Transactions a Thing of the Past
MCG Releases TakeCharge Software - A Breakthrough in Software Development Makes Cash Transactions a Thing of the Past08/12/2004 02:23 AM TAKECHARGE is a software program that allows large and small merchants
to process credit, debit, gift, EBT cards, and electronic checks
through their computers. The program has multi-threaded, multi-user,
and multi-merchant capabilities, in addition to the ability to
automatically process recurring transactions. The software is written
in Java and can run across almost all computer operating systems.
[PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
SQL Script: Software File And Software Product Tables Consolidation
Software Support Expert Publishes Telecom Software Book
Software Support Expert Publishes Telecom Software Book07/31/2004 02:10 AM Kundan Misra, co-founder of Meadoweb - leading provider of IT and
software educational support - has written the industry standard book
on telecom network management. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004]
EPAM Named to Software Magazine's 22nd Annual Software 500
Dynamic Answers - Software Factory Located In Lilburn, GA - Wins Medical Print-on-demand Software Contract
Dynamic Answers - Software Factory Located In Lilburn, GA - Wins Medical Print-on-demand Software Contract12/24/2004 12:19 PM Pritchett & Hull Associates, a well-known medical patient education
publisher chose Dynamic Answers to design and deliver their new
print-on-demand system for web-based patient ed materials. Hospitals
and home health care centers will now have an easy-to-use solution for
printing fresh patient care handouts from an internet browser. [PRWEB
Dec 23, 2004]
SkySof Software Releases PDFViewer OCX - a Powerful ActiveX Control for Software Developers Which Allows Their Applications to Display and Interact With PDF Files
