Plant Identification Guide Plant Identification Guide
posted by Andrew Cohen 9/5/2000 1:13:20 PM
Flowering Plant Family Identification
posted by Andrew Cohen 9/5/2000 1:06:55 PM
When Bad Design Becomes the Standard (Alertbox Nov. 1999) Web design is easy: If you are thinking about how to design a certain page element, all you have to do is to look at the twenty most-visited sites on the Internet and see how they do it. If 90% or more of the big sites do things in a single way, then this is the de-facto standard and you have to comply. Only deviate from a design standard if your alternative design has at least 100% higher measured usability. If 60-90% of the big sites do things in a single way, then this is a strong convention and you should comply unless your alternative design has at least 50% higher measured usability. If less than 60% of the big sites do things in a single way, then there are no dominant conventions yet and you are free to design in an alternative way. Even so, if there are a few options, each of which are used by at least 20% of big sites, you should limit yourself to choosing one of these reasonably well-known designs unless your alternative design has at least 25% higher measured usability than the best of the choices used by the big sites.
posted by Andrew Cohen 8/4/2000 11:54:15 AM
Information Architecture
posted by Andrew Cohen 8/4/2000 11:49:55 AM
What Makes a Grat WebsiteWhat are the essential traits of great Web sites? After you visit a site and find yourself staying awhile, what makes you stay? A sense of humor helps. Flashy graphics are nice. But the fundamental traits that make a site work are more elusive. This article will break down the essential characteristics of great Web sites into some easily followed rules of thumb. Most of these guidelines are just plain common sense, which seems to be a scarce commodity on the Web. The sexy proprietary page-layout and text markup features provided by Netscape and Explorer as they leapfrog each other have seduced many a webmaster into jazzing up their pages, only to be forced to put "you must use Netscape/Explorer to view these pages" at the bottom. This could be rephrased to say "these pages look awful without Netscape or Explorer." Stick with standard HTML (currently HTML 4) (1) and your pages will look good on all browsers that support it. Overall, we've found that companies either get the Web or they don't. Your Web site should reflect the culture of the Web, which we call the "Gift Economy." (witness Netscape and Microsoft) Very few sites (5%) can charge for admission or require membership, and many people avoid sites with these barriers. Give away something valuable: information, software, advice, humor, and people will flock to your site.
posted by Andrew Cohen 8/4/2000 11:35:21 AM
The Jaguar and the Fox - 00.07The atlantic (probably you have the paper copy!) mentions Alan Alda as Richard Feynman in "Tuva or Bust!"
- Since his death, from cancer, in 1988, the Feynman industry shows no sign of diminishing. Recent books and recordings, including Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, and Feynman's Lost Lecture, all sold well, and now a new collection, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, has made science best-seller lists. The Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles, is planning a production next year called Tuva or Bust!, with Alan Alda as Feynman.
posted by Andrew Cohen 6/30/2000 1:36:51 AM
Caffeinate Your HTML with a Shot of Java (Web Techniques, May 2000) Caffeinate Your HTML with a Shot of Java By Michael Trachtman
posted by Andrew Cohen 6/16/2000 11:02:29 AM
developerWorks: XML: Tools - Editing IBM list of XML editing tools
posted by Andrew Cohen 5/31/2000 11:27:06 PM
CNET Builder.com - Web Authoring - Spotlight on XMLA good starting page from XML information
You may have heard that XML, the relatively new Extensible Markup Language, will revolutionize the Web, and that XML has the potential to reshape the way data is exchanged over the Internet. Before you abandon HTML, though, find out what XML really means for the future of Web building.
posted by Andrew Cohen 5/31/2000 11:13:36 PM
CamWorld: Content Management Systems Content Management Systems I've been doing a lot of research into various content management systems lately. With the help of lots of readers and knowledgeable folks, I've developed this quick-and-dirty table that outlines the basic requirements of each CMS:
posted by Andrew Cohen 4/25/2000 5:21:14 AM
JDBC Documentation JDBCTM API Documentation Documentation Contents The JDBCTM API provides universal data access from the JavaTM programming language. Using the JDBC 2.0 API, you can access virtually any data source, from relational databases to spreadsheets and flat files. JDBC technology also provides a common base on which tools and alternate interfaces can be built.
posted by Andrew Cohen 4/13/2000 11:38:35 PM
DevEdge Online - JavaScript Developer Central
posted by Andrew Cohen 4/13/2000 9:41:31 AM
Dow Jones to launch bandwidth index. TBTF for 1998-12-15 introduced two companies making a market in bandwidth, Band-X and RateXchange. The latter has now teamed with Dow Jones to publish its price index, which will go live on May 1. As the graph shows, bandwidth rates dropped precipitously when the online markets geared up; further drops can be expected as bandwidth continues down the path toward commoditization as the raw material of the Internet age.
posted by Andrew Cohen 4/13/2000 8:27:34 AM
Roger Clarke's CFP'2000 Notes Personal Notes on Computers, Freedom & Privacy 2000 Toronto, 5-7 April 2000 Roger Clarke
posted by Andrew Cohen 4/12/2000 11:14:47 PM
gnutella: Welcome to gnutella Well, folks, here it is. New portal to handle all of you folks beating down the door, as well as new clients. One for Unix/GTK with an interface designed by none other than Spencer Kimball, and another one in Java (Gnutella in a .jar!), which should take care of just about eve4ryone, including the MacOS folks . If you're new to Gnutella, please check out the FAQ.
posted by Andrew Cohen 4/12/2000 1:21:00 AM
CNN.com - Technology - New tool offers privacy without crippling browsing habits - March 21, 2000 Controlling cookies in your browsers. From an israeli software company: IDCide
posted by Andrew Cohen 3/23/2000 11:49:18 PM
Salon Technology | Should your boss know about those visits to the shrink?Review of Database Nation
Should your boss know about those visits to the shrink?
posted by Andrew Cohen 3/6/2000 8:07:31 AM
Some Neat Tricks with dtml-tree How-To: Some Neat Tricks with dtml-tree
posted by Andrew Cohen 2/17/2000 1:28:21 AM
How-To: Secrets of working with the tree tag How-To: How-To: Secrets of working with the tree tag
posted by Andrew Cohen 2/17/2000 1:23:18 AM
Zope Newbie News A quick excerpt from Ragnar Beer's post to the Zope mailing list: 1.How can a dtml-method know which folder it is in?2.How can an external method know which folder it is in? self.REQUEST.PARENTS[0].id
posted by Andrew Cohen 2/14/2000 8:37:10 AM
Libretto Homepage Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts This has a large collection of libretti, some in english.
posted by Andrew Cohen 2/11/2000 3:32:40 AM
VisualZope This page is for discussing the VisualZope project.
posted by Andrew Cohen 2/2/2000 1:28:08 AM
Cut and paste the code below into a DTML document, and create this line of code to use it. ... This creates a calendar without the zCalendar product
posted by Andrew Cohen 1/31/2000 12:07:57 AM
A <dtml-calendar> example How-To: A <dtml-calendar> example
posted by Andrew Cohen 1/20/2000 12:01:08 AM
SCHEMA.NET: The XML Schema Site Welcome to schema.net Welcome to SCHEMA.NET. This site has been running for over one and a half years, first at jtauber.com, but now at its own domain. SCHEMA.NET, along with the sister sites XMLINFO and XMLSOFTWARE, aim to provide well organised information and resources on the Extensible Markup Language (XML), one of the most significant developments on the World Wide Web and in electronic publishing and electronic commerce.
posted by Andrew Cohen 1/19/2000 11:59:35 PM
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posted by Andrew Cohen 1/12/2000 2:28:26 AM
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