User-driven integration

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Green Hills Software and I-Logix Offer
Best-in-Class Integration for
Model-Driven Embedded Designs

Green Hills Software and I-Logix Offer
Best-in-Class Integration for
Model-Driven Embedded Designs 09/15/2004 02:01 AM
Integration of INTEGRITY RTOS, MULTI IDE and Rhapsody UML 2.0 Model-Driven Development Environment Accelerates Embedded Software Design, Development and Testing [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience 03/14/2005 04:25 PM

Last week, I wondered aloud whether Google's switch from dictionary.com to answers.com for their "definition" links was driven by concern for their users or was just a business deal:

The cynic in me feels like money had to have changed hands in order for this to have happened (maybe Google is an investor in GuruNet, maybe GuruNet paid for that placement), but the optimist in me says that Google is still a weird little company where the members of project teams can stumble across a better resource that will make their users happier and more productive and implement it on the live site quickly, even if the company that provides that resource could be considered a competitor.

Marissa Meyer, Product Manager for Google, was kind enough to respond to my query about it:

This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and design a website that we felt represented an improvement for our users over what was offered on dictionary.com (no pop-ups, dense information presentation).

That a $50 billion American company is so focused on the experience presented to its users, well, it's pretty impressive.

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

Link

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname 05/15/2004 08:42 AM

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google toolbar that you can download from google.com. It appears as a little search window in every browser session.

Driven

Driven 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
In the mad rush of the announcements of this week and the excitement building for the Panther release, I've completely...

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface 09/09/2002 06:29 AM

Digital UK driven by net and TV

Digital UK driven by net and TV 03/22/2005 04:30 PM
Britain's take-up of digital TV and broadband makes it the fourth 'most digital' European nation, says a report.

Test-Driven

Test-Driven 07/05/2004 10:23 PM

I started reading Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development: By Example over the weekend.  Tim Bray menti oned the book a while back and his impression of TDD differed from mine so I figured I was overlooking something.  Boy, I sure was.

I thought TDD (Test-Driven Development) was just development with a strong emphasis on tests.  It's more than that.  What threw me off was the word 'development' which encompasses the entire development process including design, implemention, evolution, etc.  The core gem of an idea behind TDD impacts the design phase most heavily and it's uncovered in rather tedious detail by Kent Beck.  Tedious yet startling is what I felt.

The simple idea is this:

Design software by writing tests first.

By 'software', I mean services, frameworks, modules, components, and objects.

Since tests are written before the module being tested is written, the experience of writing of the test drives the module's designing process.  More importantly, you are looking at the API, of the module being designed, from the API client's perspective.  Net result is higher quality API design.

While TDD during the design process is enough of a benefit for engineers to put into use immediately, TDD has problems because test cases are software and there are maintenance cost associated with them.  Having a tool like Eclipse helps but much more is needed to help the engineers document the tests, keep track of them, and reuse as needed.

I think a visual tool that lets engineers drag and drop tests into test suites for various purposes like release testing, runtime testing, diagnostic testing is essential.  TDD also encourages refactoring through out the development process which calls for more flexible source control system than CVS.

SRI in a Performance Driven Market

SRI in a Performance Driven Market 12/02/2003 01:35 AM
marcus evans Nov 27 2003 7:15AM ET

Surging Net Driven Sales

Surging Net Driven Sales 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
A spring 2003 survey indicates that more than ever, people are turning to websites to make their purchasing decisions -- regardless of whether they actually purchase online, or purchase their goods in person.

Over half of the respondents (55%) indicated that they had immediate purchase intents. 11% immediately bought online, 6% immediately bought offline. Of the remainder, 21% indicated that they would buy within 48 hours, and 17% within the week.

Now more than ever, it is clear how important it is for businesses to be accessible online -- even if they do not sell or deliver services online; if they can't find what they want to know from and about you, then the odds are that they will find it from your competitor.

More info here.

Computer-driven shoe

Computer-driven shoe 04/02/2005 04:39 AM
The Province Apr 2 2005 8:03AM GMT

Test-driven development

Test-driven development 01/29/2003 08:58 AM
Why test-driven development?

The more technical aspect of XP involves a method known as test-driven development (TDD) or test-first development. So what kind of bizarre creature is this and why would any sane individual want to try it?

The answer is that it is one of the sanest things you can do. It makes your programs work better, and it feels much better. -- Dagfinn Reiersol

Observant people will notice that adodb and the recently released date library have extensive test suites. I don't know whether this is test-driven development, but it's just common sense to have automated tests. The dark secret of automated testing occurs when you are doing GUI programming. Most automated testing of GUI's, even web-based ones don't work well, because even a minor change in font sizes could invalidate your test results.

"zeldman.oo5"

Light-Driven Music Box

Light-Driven Music Box 03/22/2005 04:46 PM

WMMNA tells us of the Circular Optical Object Locator, a light-based music box of sorts created by David Merrill and Tim Hankins. A transparent disc sits above a group of six colored lights, each able to represent a different sound or instrument. By placing opaque squares on the disc and rotating it, a video signal captured by an overhead camera is transformed into the appropriate sound based on what light it sees. Move the squares closer to the center and the pitch might change. Video and more pictures await you on the project's site.

COOL Project Page [MIT via WMMNA< /a>]

Event Driven ASP.NET Development with C#

Event Driven ASP.NET Development with C# 10/09/2002 01:52 PM
WebmasterBase Oct 9 2002 12:34PM ET

When to use a database-driven Web site

When to use a database-driven Web site 07/23/2002 11:42 PM
CNET Jul 23 2002 10:48PM ET

XML-driven Flash Web site

XML-driven Flash Web site 12/18/2003 02:12 AM
CNET Dec 18 2003 1:40AM ET

Event Driven ASP.NET Development with C#

Event Driven ASP.NET Development with C# 10/11/2002 07:56 AM
WebmasterBase Oct 9 2002 12:34PM ET

Motorola Launches NFL-Driven DVR, HD
Program

Motorola Launches NFL-Driven DVR, HD
Program 09/20/2004 12:10 PM
CableRetailer.com Sep 20 2004 4:16PM GMT

Build an XML/XSLT driven Website with
.NET

Build an XML/XSLT driven Website with
.NET 01/31/2003 05:50 AM
WebmasterBase Jan 31 2003 4:44AM ET

Spiderman 2 marketing driven by bl0gs

Spiderman 2 marketing driven by bl0gs 12/15/2003 12:59 PM
Ben sez, "Sony's marketing for Spiderman 2 includes a huge weblogging push, including Blogger and LiveJournal templates, for the downloading." Link (Thanks, Ben!)

New Generation Of Entrepreneurs Not
Driven By Money Alone

New Generation Of Entrepreneurs Not
Driven By Money Alone 09/27/2004 12:29 AM
Michael Clouser writes "The number of college entrepreneurs is growing, but they are driven by something different, rather, they see technology as a hobby, and starting companies as self-satisfaction, rather than to make a bunch of money. Also, the number of college entrepreneurship courses continues to rise, despite the bubble burst." While I think it's great to hear stories suggesting more people are starting companies for the love of what they're doing, rather than simply the economic opportunity, these things do tend to go in a cycle. The reason people claim they're starting companies to do what they love is because not too many startups have been cashing out over the past few years. Should the cashing out part pick up some more, and you can bet that the quick startup flippers will be back in no time.

Getting the best out of demand-driven
supply networks

Getting the best out of demand-driven
supply networks 01/25/2004 09:48 PM
Computer Weekly Jan 26 2004 2:07AM GMT

Next-generation DVD Driven By Two
Competing Standards

Next-generation DVD Driven By Two
Competing Standards 11/14/2003 11:28 AM

Cops: Woman May Have Driven With Dead
Mom (AP)

Cops: Woman May Have Driven With Dead
Mom (AP) 04/29/2004 05:44 PM
AP - Authorities in two states are trying to determine why a woman may have driven with her mother's decaying body as a passenger from their Oklahoma home to Florida_ by way of North Carolina and Texas_ and then left the body in the car in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

A new business model, driven by consumer
needs

A new business model, driven by consumer
needs 02/15/2004 01:03 AM
Boston Globe Feb 15 2004 5:15AM GMT

Contract-Driven Development meets XP

Contract-Driven Development meets XP 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
I think there are two kinds of people interested in test-driven development. First, there are people who are very happy not to have to write a specification. If that's what you hope to get from Extreme Programming (XP), I don't think you'll get much improvement. But then there are people who are more seriously applying the idea of test-driven development, the way at least I would consider applying it, where the tests are really systematic. -- Bertrand Meyer

Novell’s Identity-Driven Computing

Novell’s Identity-Driven Computing 03/19/2005 02:23 AM
Identity and context are both key to policy management. In other words, you need to know who or what is doing something - and what the context is - to know whether to allow it.

Singing, sample-driven website

Singing, sample-driven website 11/17/2003 09:17 AM
Let Them Sing It For You: a Swedish site that takes a phrase as its input, and then "sings" it by playing it back, word-by-word, from a library of sampled words from pop songs. L ink (via Daily Notes)

Chechen Rebels Mainly Driven By
Nationalism

Chechen Rebels Mainly Driven By
Nationalism 09/11/2004 12:55 PM
While Chechnya's separatists have received money, men, training and ideological inspiration from international Islamic organizations, they remain an indigenous and largely self-sustaining force.

PHPBuilder.com: Test Driven Development

PHPBuilder.com: Test Driven Development 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
One of the things that gets left out the most when developing code, web or not, is the correct steps of "design, code, test, and debug" to create rock-solid code. But, "suppose we did think about it. Not just made a cursory effort to do it, but actually examine if it is really the right thing to do." In a new article from PHPBuilder.com, they cover just this.

More See Inktomi Driven Yahoo Testing in
The UK

More See Inktomi Driven Yahoo Testing in
The UK 11/05/2003 08:21 PM
Many in the UK report seeing Inktomi powered SERPs on Yahoo. While in the US, everyone is still getting Google powered Serps.
Grok Description matches for User-driven integration
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Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails

Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails 07/25/2004 08:50 PM
GooglePreview website .. GooglePreview

ackroyd.de/googlepreview
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GooglePreview, firefox extension

GooglePreview, firefox extension 07/25/2004 03:42 PM
adds thumbnail images to search result pages

Firefox extension for Allmusic

Firefox extension for Allmusic 08/03/2004 09:38 PM
Last month, people voiced their disappointment with AllMusic's for-the-worse facelift, and a week later someone at holovaty.com wrote a Mozilla Firefox extension that "routs around the damage" and allows for cleaner browsing. Some are pondering the legal consequences.

GooglePreview Firefox Extension

GooglePreview Firefox Extension 04/08/2005 06:44 PM

GMail Firefox Extension

GMail Firefox Extension 07/09/2004 08:34 AM

GMailC ompose: If you have a GMail account and use Mozilla or Firefox, this extension is right up your alley.

Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu.

Apparently Google has created a URL spec for doing just this. Good for them — client integration has always been a weakness of Web-based mail.

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Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox 04/25/2004 09:53 AM
Checky 2.1 - Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups 04/05/2005 01:10 AM
If you've noticed pop-up and pop-under ads sneaking into your surfing despite your browser settings, you're not alone. Firefox users will soon have a new tool to fight the annoying ads.

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension 05/18/2004 05:50 AM
scribe, mozilla plugin for text areas .. Scribe

prismicspiral.com/scribe
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FireFox Extension Creates Stir

FireFox Extension Creates Stir 03/23/2005 05:18 PM

A new FireFox extension called Greasemonkey allows users to modify webpages as they view them. It gives users the capabilities to manipulate DHTML of a page to prevent ads from appearing, transform links, make a page more printable, change colors, ad your Amazon ID’s in links, change the way links open, and much more. There are literally hundreds of GreaseMonkey userscripts. This all sounds like a great idea, but news.com has some security concerns. 

The trouble with Greasemonkey and user scripts in general is that scripts can be used for both good and ill, and end users scanning through lists of enticing scripts might fail to distinguish between malicious and benign code."A user JavaScript file can in no way harm your computer or stored data, but badly written files can slow down Opera, and malicious files can spy on your browsing," read the browser maker's caveat. "Never install and use a script library from someone you don't know and trust--if in doubt post in the Opera forums, newsgroups or mailing lists and ask if the script you would like to use is well written and exploit-free."

User scripts also could facilitate password-stealing schemes, said security consultant Richard Smith, who runs the Computer Bytes Man Web site."The bad guys could likely create a script for stealing usernames and passwords in login forms using this tool," said Smith. "They would still need to break into someone's computer to install the script, but the tool would make the theft process much easier."

"Google Preview Firefox Extension"

"Google Preview Firefox Extension" 07/26/2004 09:11 AM

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension 03/25/2005 01:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Nik says,

I wrote a Firefox extension that sits in the status bar of Firefox, and tells you at a glance the morbidity status of Terry Schiavo.

Link

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots 04/25/2004 03:20 PM

Marathon Aleph One

Marathon Aleph One 04/21/2004 11:40 PM
2004-04-17 release (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux)

LibraryLookup: Aleph

LibraryLookup: Aleph 07/22/2004 09:48 AM
Thanks to Janet Lefkowitz, a librarian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the LibraryLookup< /a> project has added support for a fifteenth class of OPAC (online public access catalog) system: Ex Libris Aleph. This was an interesting collaboration. I'd looked at a few different Aleph systems, and found that their URLs varied from one implementation to the next in ways that I didn't have time to unravel. But Janet was willing to do this research, and she presented me with a set of Aleph URLs that illustrated the variations. I updated the Build your own Bookmarklet (BYOB) script accordingly. ...

"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension

"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension 09/20/2004 10:22 AM

When Firefox add ed RSS support, I had mixed reactions. On the one hand, I was excited by the boost RSS would receive by being supported in a popular browser. But on the other hand, for obvious reasons I wasn't wild about how Firefox built RSS into the browser without enabling users to choose an external RSS reader.

So, I was glad when several FeedDemon customers talking about building an extension to enable FeedDemon to take advantage of the new Firefox RSS features.

Michael Koziarski rose to the challenge and created F eed Your Reader, a Firefox extension that enables you to subscribe to feed in FeedDemon - or any other RSS reader that supports the feed: // protocol. Which means that even though the extension was designed with FeedDemon in mind, it's not specific to FeedDemon. Initial tests show that it also works with NetNewsWire on the Mac.

Once this extension is installed, you'll see an additional "FYR" icon in Firefox's status bar right next to the existing RSS icon. Clicking the FYR icon displays a menu of auto-discovered feeds, and clicking one of these feeds will display FeedDemon's "New Channel" wizard to subscribe to it.

Details on Feed Your Reader are h ere, and the project page is here. If you're viewing this in Firefox, the download link to the XPI (extension) is here .

(PAPER) "Vision of danger: The Firefox
Greasemonkey"

(PAPER) "Vision of danger: The Firefox
Greasemonkey" 04/01/2005 04:53 AM
Piotr Bania (Mar 31 2005)

Forrester: Greasemonkey Primes Firefox
For Embarrassment

Forrester: Greasemonkey Primes Firefox
For Embarrassment 04/14/2005 09:51 AM

Forrester: Greasemonkey Makes Firefox
Evil Incarnate

Forrester: Greasemonkey Makes Firefox
Evil Incarnate 04/15/2005 12:37 AM

Forrester : Greasemonkey Primes Firefox For Embarrassment: Forrester has released a report that says Greasemo nkey is a good reason to ditch plans for corporate Firefox rollouts.

[...] IT managers beware: Greasemonkey will cause you nothing but headaches, and may even be a good reason to delay that Firefox pilot you're planning.

Someone needs to make Greasemonkey for IE just to embarrass Forrester.

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million 04/11/2005 11:59 PM

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up 02/01/2005 10:05 PM

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox 03/31/2005 07:27 AM

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox!

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox! 08/18/2004 06:48 AM
adbar for firefox .. Adbar

squarefree.com/extensions/adbar
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Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox 09/14/2004 02:50 PM

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch 09/14/2004 03:22 AM
The Mozilla Foundation today released the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 email client. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is an innovative, secure, lightning fast web browser that is rapidly gaining global market share. Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 is the Mozilla Foundation's next generation email client. These releases bring Firefox and Thunderbird one step closer to their much anticipated 1.0 releases, scheduled for later this fall. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR 09/17/2004 08:22 AM
FF/IE Compatible Web Pages - There is a new development in the web design world, web pages that can be viewed equally in Firefox or Internet Explorer. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Extension Anyone?

Extension Anyone? 04/12/2004 03:33 PM
You can avoid penalties even if you can't file your taxes by April 15.

ffmpeg-php extension

ffmpeg-php extension 12/25/2004 07:22 PM
ffmpeg-php-0.4.0_alpha released

Perl Extension for PHP

Perl Extension for PHP 04/16/2004 02:33 PM

Using Perl code from PHP: The possibilities here make my head spin. Problem is, I don't know if it's spinning in a good way or a bad way.

The PHP Perl extension was implemented to allow the usage of Perl code from within PHP. It is a wrapper that embeds the Perl interpreter and converts data from PHP to Perl and back. At the time of writing it only provides a one-way interface from PHP to Perl...

...load and execute Perl files...evaluate Perl code...access Perl variables...call Perl functions...instantiate Perl objects...access properties of Perl objects...call methods of Perl objects...

I think I'm going to embed Movable Type in a PHP page just for fun. Via Anil Dash.

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Do You Need a Tax-Filing Extension?

Do You Need a Tax-Filing Extension? 04/08/2005 11:53 AM
Have you found yourself running out of time? Roy Lewis offers some suggestions on what to do next.

snmp-extension 0.2.0

snmp-extension 0.2.0 04/24/2004 03:40 AM
A Net-SNMP extension for giving qdisc/class statistics.

User-driven integration