I’m testing a build and install issue that was preventing me from using the NextGEN plugin for Wordpress. Hopefully there should be a load of  photos here from my post-Chicago ride.

and with a little luck, the XML Google Maps plugin will pick up on the gallery and the geotags in the photos

…job done.

Posted: February 8th, 2009 under AJAX, Content Management, Cycling, Geospatial.
Comments: 4

Bit late picking up on this (as usual, you might add), but it seems that Flock has finally grown up and gone all version 1.0 on us. I have to say that since my last post, I’ve had absolutely no trouble at all with general usage – I think the only blip I’ve had has been with Domino Web Access (but that’s hardly surprising either).

If you like Firefox, but hate that it keeps on hanging all over the shop and peeing memory when it feels like it, then I’d suggest you do yourself a big fat favour and give Flock a try.

It’s so handy that it’s even helping me write this post in a wysiwyg editor because Wordpress 2.3.1 seems to be a bit bust on the memory handling front, and so is not really all that well.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: Flock, v1.0. releaed, yay, os_x

Posted: November 4th, 2007 under AJAX, OS X.
Comments: 2

I thought the Beta for Joost was open for all.  Turns out it isn’t – well at least not yet.  Anyway, I’ve got a bundle of invites to use if anyone wants to get on with trying it out.  Just drop a comment on this post and I’ll sign you up.

Posted: May 7th, 2007 under AJAX, Content, Video.
Comments: 6

Just been looking at the Netcraft site report for www.breadedcod.com this evening, and it seems we are now standing at number 587085

[edit: now 481018 3/3/07]

[edit: now 362515 28/3/07]

[edit: now 281464 3/5/07]

[edit: now 279481 7/5/07]

[edit: now 250932 23/5/07]

[edit: now 232739 31/5/07]

[edit: now 203400 29/6/07]

[edit: now 152433 23/9/07]

in the ‘most visited’ ranks. The site directly above in the rankings, and quite deservedly so, is Eternal Sunset. I can’t even begin to bring myself to describe the site that is directly beneath breadedcod.com in the visit stake – it’s just too upsetting for words.

Anyway, back to Eternal Sunset …

Eternal Sunset endeavours to ensure you can enjoy the sunset live from any location, at any time. As the sunset moves westward, Eternal Sunset continuously tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe. This service is currently provided through the use of 258 west-facing webcams across 44 countries.

Gone on, give it a whirl.

Posted: February 27th, 2007 under AJAX, Aside, Out of Office.
Comments: none

There are 5 themes in the Lotus Connections product suite:

• Profiles
• Communities
• Dogear
• Activities
• Blog

All of which are customisable, and all – in the spirit of Creature Comforts – very turn off and onable. We know this because only the invited great and good have access to the Blog component on the special Lotusphere pre-beta we’ve been invited to use. This is partly because I suspect that setting up a pre-beta for 7500 users has potential issues for the folks having to admin the temporary Domino and Connections servers down here in Orlando.

Profiles

OK, we’ve been talking about this at work for some time and have a project underway at the moment that is looking to provide something similar for a partial coverage of our staff. We’ve hung back from developing significant applications to deliver and drive the profiles precisely becuase we were expecting something along the lines of the profiles module to be delivered sometime soon. IBM have made considerable noise about their own internal use of ‘Blue Pages’ as a ‘People Finder’ on steroids.

Communities

Communities alows folks tocreate ad-hoc groups based around subjects they are interested in. All taggable – just like Facebook / Bebo Groups etc., but for grown-ups

Dogear

I’ve talked about Dogear previously, when it was standalone as an internal alphaworks product at Watson Research Lab, and refered to by the ACM. Dogear is basically del.icio.us for the Enterprise, but is well embedded with the other areas of Connections, particularly with…

Activities

Right, now this *is* new (well, sort of – you could argue that it’s an extension of a Task List paradigm, but that would be doing a particular disservice to this piece of functionality).

The one issue I need to get to the bottom of here with some of the Lotus folk is where Activities fits with Websphere Process Server.

…

OK. had a chat with them, and it seems that we are talking ad-hoc activities here, not formal business methods. I think I can find a way of differentiating between the two when we need to present this out to people.

Blogs

Shouldn’t really need any explanation really.

So the potential of Connections is pretty huge for businesses prepared to invest in the improved Notes / Domino / Connections environment. We’ve seen countless demos of how seamlessly they all integrate and can be used to organise work. It all looks good.

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Posted: January 26th, 2007 under AJAX, Business, Collaboration Tools, Information Management, Portal.
Comments: none