Posts for November, 2006

Nov 30, 2006

MetaGlossary - Meaningful Results

I stumbled upon MetaGlossary today. The usual search interface did not evoke any special reaction from me, or in other words, I did not feel interested a lot. The only difference was this statement just above the search box Find meaning, not just links. [Continue]

Nov 30, 2006

Requirement Patterns

Christopher Creel presents Requirement Patterns, analogous to Design Patterns, but to cover the problem space rather than the solution space. I agree with him that requirements engineering is not given enough weightage. One way a project effort and cost estimate is brought down is by stripping down the requirements elicitation and analysis. [Continue]

Nov 29, 2006

Blogs And Journalism

Pulitzer, the elite award, has opened up to admit blogs (via Bloggers Blog). Initially I was thrilled, but as you can see, most of the language is directed towards newspapers and considered in the local journalism context. Scoble says that bloggers will be called journalists as more and more professionals start blogging. [Continue]

Nov 29, 2006

Do Not Say Click Here

Do not make it that obvious! Emil StenstrÃ¶m discusses this and advises that the link text should inform the reader about the content it links to. It should be something that the reader can use to decide whether to click on the link or not. [Continue]

Nov 28, 2006

Aggreg8 - A Microsoft Attempt

Microsoft has launched Aggreg8 - a social networking site for IT professionals. I would assume it would be more about Microsoft products than about networking between IT professionals. Even as a plain networking site, it lacks some of the basic features and the ones that are there are not very easy to use. [Continue]

Nov 27, 2006

Moore’s Law Milestone

Chris Anderson noted that Moore’s Law has reached an important milestone. Intel’s Core Duo now costs a penny per MIPS. Moore’s Law is not only about density of transitors, it is also about their cost. [Continue]

Nov 27, 2006

Gift To Share

Phil Torrone has created the concept of the Open Source Gift Guide (via Linux and Open Source Blog). The idea is to gift something that can allow sharing instead of the same old junk! The post lists some open source projects and invites readers to provide their own. [Continue]

Nov 26, 2006

First Markup Then Style

I always insist of developing the markup, in fact semantic markup, before it is styled. The basic reason is that content is still the king and the markup structures the content. Markup is what the search engines see. [Continue]

Nov 26, 2006

Back To Manual Spamming

Spammers are now outsourcing for manual spamming (via Bloggers Blog) to workaround CAPTCHAs. Though a single spammer cannot be as fast as a machine, thousands of them together than spell a lot of trouble. Captchas force you to identify certain characters and enter them, which machines cannot follow. [Continue]

Nov 25, 2006

Beryl On Kubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)

I had read that upgrading my Kubuntu installation to Edgy Eft from Dapper Drake entailed risk of breaking the X Server. So I made sure that I uninstalled X server and explicitly installed it with the upgrade. That worked. [Continue]