New GraphViz… Data Structure Mapper.
February 8th, 2007
Well… a VERY cool new program has the potential to revolutionize how site structures could be mapped… found an interesting paradim – a way to convert folder structures into org like charts… would be interesting to build Java App that will build a .dot file for DataViz… traversing the site and following the links all the while plotting their paths.
folder2dot.dmg – Get the script application that will make the .DOT file for either OmniGraffle or GraphViz 1.13 v16
Topics: .dot, Application, Automation, Description, Download, Theory
The Internet Inventor: Tim Berners-Lee
February 4th, 2007
Was wondering who invented this thing that is now a livelihood of many, and mind-blowingly layered these days and steeped in many having a desire to claim it’s inception, and this may be another, and the timeline I feel like i need to verify. According a Time article in March of 1999:
It started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. The year was 1980. Berners-Lee, doing a six-month stint as a software engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, was noodling around with a way to organize his far-flung notes. He had always been interested in programs that dealt with information in a “brain-like way” but that could improve upon that occasionally memory-constrained organ. So he devised a piece of software that could, as he put it, keep “track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains are supposed to be so good at remembering but sometimes mine wouldn’t.” He called it Enquire, short for Enquire Within Upon Everything, a Victorian-era encyclopedia he remembered from childhood.
Ahh… so according to this, the web was invented to mimic human brain functions… very cool, if you ask me.
Topics: Description, Founder, Innovation, Internet
Welcome, weary traveller…
February 1st, 2007
to the vurtual being within the ether…
this site is meant to be the tearing apart of design and addressing design goals of any given “designed” thing. “who are you and what makes you think you know any better?” as part of the free world we live in, we al have a response to design, either negative or positive, creative results can always be improved on and any rational artist / human should wish to constantly improve their work or craft, any as one friend once told me, “there is no such thing as bad criticism, just bad ways of taking it.” yet this idea can run the danger of abuse, even that should be listened too. improving a craft is a lifetime process that any designer, worth-a-spit, is open and wishes to encourage an environment that fosters positive creative warmth. now with that stated, and a matter of core belief, the need to return this banter back to what this site is all about is in order.
“opinions are like a**wholes, everyone’s got one!” and everyone needs to be willing to argue that point, have their point understood, but as far as this site goes, i welcome and encourage any and all responses. lets start the dialog that makes what we are creating better than what we once had.
strive for greatness in all you do.
Topics: About Site, bLogging, Introduction, Welcome
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