Comments for Wahoo's Word -- David Kellogg http://davidkellogg.com/blog David Kellogg's thoughts Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:56:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 Comment on Lunch 2.0 on Chronicle’s front page by The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive You’ve just been LunchedIn! « http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2007/05/25/lunch-20-on-chronicles-front-page/#comment-16909 The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive You’ve just been LunchedIn! « Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:41:23 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2007/05/25/lunch-20-on-chronicles-front-page/#comment-16909 [...] was incredible (Web Strategy Blog with video) When LinkedIn met Lunch 2.0 (Marketing Nirvana) Lunch 2.0 on Chronicle’s front page (David Kellogg) Plaxo gets LunchedIn (Plaxo Blog) Lunch 2.0 in the SF Chronicle today (Mark Jen) My [...] […] was incredible (Web Strategy Blog with video) When LinkedIn met Lunch 2.0 (Marketing Nirvana) Lunch 2.0 on Chronicle’s front page (David Kellogg) Plaxo gets LunchedIn (Plaxo Blog) Lunch 2.0 in the SF Chronicle today (Mark Jen) My […]

]]> Comment on Using watch to monitor Javascript by Roddy Heijst de Zeilen http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2006/12/14/using-watch-to-monitor-javascript/#comment-16485 Roddy Heijst de Zeilen Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:24:33 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2006/12/14/using-watch-to-monitor-javascript/#comment-16485 About noone using .watch().. While the function is incredibly viable, the whole culture of JavaScript & all other browser-sided scripts seems to be held back by the fact that most of the companies/corporations use outdated browsers: for them, it is easier not to update all their computers. Simply said, I'm programming for IE6 right now, even though it has been released 'way back' in 2001. Apparently, 7 years is not that much to a large corporation. IE6 is roughly 80% of the market share at those corporations, and it doesn't support the .watch() function. That's why I cannot use it, and I bet a lot of others with me.. It's a shame really. We should stand up and fight, make them download Firefox or something ;] but alas, there is no power. I'll be keeping an eye on http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php anyway.. when IE6 hits 10%, i'm gonna drop it ;} About noone using .watch().. While the function is incredibly viable, the whole culture of JavaScript & all other browser-sided scripts seems to be held back by the fact that most of the companies/corporations use outdated browsers: for them, it is easier not to update all their computers. Simply said, I’m programming for IE6 right now, even though it has been released ‘way back’ in 2001. Apparently, 7 years is not that much to a large corporation.

IE6 is roughly 80% of the market share at those corporations, and it doesn’t support the .watch() function. That’s why I cannot use it, and I bet a lot of others with me.. It’s a shame really. We should stand up and fight, make them download Firefox or something ;] but alas, there is no power.

I’ll be keeping an eye on http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php anyway.. when IE6 hits 10%, i’m gonna drop it ;}

]]> Comment on Can’t write SQL? Try Hibernate by David Kellogg http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2007/10/15/cant-write-sql-try-hibernate/#comment-15367 David Kellogg Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:25:34 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2007/10/15/cant-write-sql-try-hibernate/#comment-15367 Alpha, I love how some people think, in terms of one lousy framework (Hibernation) vs. another (.NET). I'm not a fan of either, because it locks you into a solution. If that solution does not meet your needs, well good luck changing the source. Just for the record, it is possible to segment/shard your database without resorting to yet another framework. Frameworks are great for novices. Alpha,
I love how some people think, in terms of one lousy framework (Hibernation) vs. another (.NET). I’m not a fan of either, because it locks you into a solution. If that solution does not meet your needs, well good luck changing the source. Just for the record, it is possible to segment/shard your database without resorting to yet another framework. Frameworks are great for novices.

]]> Comment on Grace Hopper and the length of a nanosecond by Lee http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/08/grace-hopper-and-the-length-of-a-nanosecond/#comment-14857 Lee Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:34:19 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/08/grace-hopper-and-the-length-of-a-nanosecond/#comment-14857 Question: When downloading pdf files in POW, they are corrupted and unreadable. Originals in htdocs folder of POW are A-Ok. Tried several different machines, same result. Options? Question:

When downloading pdf files in POW, they are corrupted and unreadable. Originals in htdocs folder of POW are A-Ok. Tried several different machines, same result.

Options?

]]> Comment on Clueless CIOs by Lee http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/clueless-cios/#comment-14812 Lee Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:34:39 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/clueless-cios/#comment-14812 I want to make a simple list of files to share. How do I do that? I want to make a simple list of files to share.

How do I do that?

]]> Comment on Breadcrumbs 0.1.2 Preview Available by Derek http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2006/12/26/breadcrumbs-012-preview-available/#comment-14494 Derek Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:24:15 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2006/12/26/breadcrumbs-012-preview-available/#comment-14494 Hi -- I've been happily using Ken Schutte's slogger extension for a few years but now it's been abandoned and FF3's "new! improved!" security restrictions have seriously messed up the nice web-page archiving ecosystem I had going here ... sigh ... Anyway I'm writing this to see if you might get motivated to give Breadcrumbs a slogger-like option to /selectively/ save and index web-pages, i.e. via toolbar button or context-menu, rather than archiving every page visited. The other nice bit that slogger had was generating a daily HTML or XML logfile, which made it easy to chronologically review the pages one felt worth saving for future reference, day by day over the past weeks, months, ... I've found this an invaluable aid to recollection. (Meanwhile, I'll try adapting the old slogger code to work with POW...) Thanks for considering -- D. Hi — I’ve been happily using Ken Schutte’s slogger extension for a few years but now it’s been abandoned and FF3’s “new! improved!” security restrictions have seriously messed up the nice web-page archiving ecosystem I had going here … sigh … Anyway I’m writing this to see if you might get motivated to give Breadcrumbs a slogger-like option to /selectively/ save and index web-pages, i.e. via toolbar button or context-menu, rather than archiving every page visited. The other nice bit that slogger had was generating a daily HTML or XML logfile, which made it easy to chronologically review the pages one felt worth saving for future reference, day by day over the past weeks, months, … I’ve found this an invaluable aid to recollection.

(Meanwhile, I’ll try adapting the old slogger code to work with POW…)

Thanks for considering — D.

]]> Comment on Powerset sold for what? by David Kellogg http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/powerset-sold-for-what/#comment-14073 David Kellogg Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:20:37 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/powerset-sold-for-what/#comment-14073 Ric, I downloaded Rails and ran it. It took 3 seconds for their "Hello World" app to load. Some frameworks are just plain slow. They start out slow, then later you hit the ol' broken framework problem. You have to break the framework (rewrite it) for it to work on a large scale. After you fix Rails, is it still Rails? Will DHH send you patches for your code? I think not. There is some place in the world for Easy. If the price is immutable communist-era architecture, I'll pass. Strangely, Powerset takes 3 seconds to load a page without any search results, just like my Hello World application. Is their whole site just a fork of the Hello World page? Maybe. Ric,

I downloaded Rails and ran it. It took 3 seconds for their “Hello World” app to load. Some frameworks are just plain slow. They start out slow, then later you hit the ol’ broken framework problem. You have to break the framework (rewrite it) for it to work on a large scale. After you fix Rails, is it still Rails? Will DHH send you patches for your code? I think not.

There is some place in the world for Easy. If the price is immutable communist-era architecture, I’ll pass.

Strangely, Powerset takes 3 seconds to load a page without any search results, just like my Hello World application. Is their whole site just a fork of the Hello World page? Maybe.

]]> Comment on Powerset sold for what? by Ric http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/powerset-sold-for-what/#comment-14058 Ric Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:17:27 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/powerset-sold-for-what/#comment-14058 Typo correction: I meant 'skewing' not 'scewing'! :-) Typo correction: I meant ’skewing’ not ’scewing’! :-)

]]> Comment on Powerset sold for what? by Ric http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/powerset-sold-for-what/#comment-14054 Ric Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:12:09 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/07/01/powerset-sold-for-what/#comment-14054 It's interesting that you attribute the slowness of powerset to Ruby On Rails. I don't think Rails scaling is really as big a problem as some would have us believe. OK, so some big rails sites have had problems (Twitter), but are these problems down to rails, or poor design, or other external factors? I'd bet there are a lot of other sites out there that do comparable traffic to "the big Rails sites" but do so quietly (because they just work). The ease and speed that you can get something running with rails means that novice developers may be churning out lots of poorly designed, slow apps, thus skewing the distribution of slow sites against Rails' favour. It’s interesting that you attribute the slowness of powerset to Ruby On Rails.

I don’t think Rails scaling is really as big a problem as some would have us believe. OK, so some big rails sites have had problems (Twitter), but are these problems down to rails, or poor design, or other external factors? I’d bet there are a lot of other sites out there that do comparable traffic to “the big Rails sites” but do so quietly (because they just work).

The ease and speed that you can get something running with rails means that novice developers may be churning out lots of poorly designed, slow apps, thus skewing the distribution of slow sites against Rails’ favour.

]]> Comment on Semantic Web, please go away by Ric http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2007/09/20/semantic-web-please-go-away/#comment-14053 Ric Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:59:02 +0000 http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2007/09/20/semantic-web-please-go-away/#comment-14053 Taken literally, semantics is just is the study of meaning in communication. Anything that adds additional meaning to your data is a step in the right direction. The ability to add tags to items is the extent of most sites’ semantic features, but this is better than nothing. The way to get semantics off the ground is to take the burden of labelling away from the user ...or at least make it very easy, or better still make it seem to the user like they're not doing any work at all. Data is near useless without context and meaning, so at Swirrl we're trying to overcome the hurdles that the semantic web faces. http://blog.swirrl.com/articles/2008/07/10/why-the-semantic-web-has-failed-to-get-off-the-ground Taken literally, semantics is just is the study of meaning in communication. Anything that adds additional meaning to your data is a step in the right direction. The ability to add tags to items is the extent of most sites’ semantic features, but this is better than nothing.

The way to get semantics off the ground is to take the burden of labelling away from the user …or at least make it very easy, or better still make it seem to the user like they’re not doing any work at all.

Data is near useless without context and meaning, so at Swirrl we’re trying to overcome the hurdles that the semantic web faces.

http://blog.swirrl.com/articles/2008/07/10/why-the-semantic-web-has-failed-to-get-off-the-ground

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