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This is the second Weblog of Christian Burger, where he's going to publish his daily pics.
I wrote about it in the my weblog entry.

Weblog fever is spreading

My colleague Christian Burger has opened it's own Weblog.
I think hearing all the good things about Weblogs from me and from Matthew Langham in Paderborn last Wednesday couldn't keep him away any longer.
He told me that he wants to use it to take a photo every day and write some thing about it.
And he really wants to do it every day!

Sounds interesting...
I'll surely keep an eye on it.

Journey to Paderborn

I just returned from a two-day meeting in Paderborn with Armin Vogt, Guido Casper from s&n and my colleagues Christian Burger, Thomas Haginger, Andreas Köll and Christoph Takacs.
The meeting was intended for synchronizing our ideas for a project at our firm.

The landing (Air Berlin) at the Vienna Airport was a bit bumpy so that the oxygen masks at the next seat in front of us popped out ... but we survived it ;-)

Yesterday we had a very nice evening at the Brauhaus where Uwe Bröker, Carsten Ziegeler and Matthew Langham joined us.
Some photos were taken from this event, so perhaps you'll be able to see something.

In general I can say, that this journey was a great success (for both parties I hope ;-) and I'm looking forward to meet again in Vienna, Munich or Paderborn

Guido Casper noticed my Weblog

Ah, Guido Casper just noticed my Weblog. Promptly my BlogShares value raised from $0.0 to $100.72 for some days ;-)

Haystack - An RDF-based Information Management System

Haystack is a research project of MIT which seeks to bring modern information management and retrieval technologies to the average computer user in order to make computers a more compelling place for users to interact with their information. Haystack looks into the use of artificial intelligence techniques for analyzing unstructured information and providing more accurate retrieval. It also deals with the modeling, management, and display of user data in more natural and useful ways.
It's available for Windows and Linux (GTK+ 2.0) on June 1st 2003.

Mozile - Mozilla Inline Editor

Mozile is an Inline XHTML editor for Mozilla.

CiteSeer - Scientific Literature Digital Library

For those of you, who don't already know it: CiteSeer is one of the best sources for papers about computer science hosted on the NEC Research Institute.

Working with DocBook

I was looking for some information on how to write good papers with the help of DocBook and just found Working with DocBook from Ted Neward. The subtitle of this paper is "Having Fun with XSLT and XSL:FO". Looks promising ...
Update:
While reading this interesting paper I found some more papers from him, most notably X-Power which introduces an XML format for White Papers.

Information Architecture

This article with the title "A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design" from Jesse James Garrett is a very good discussion about how the information architecture can be easily visualized with simple and well-understood graphical elements. Good examples and descriptions explain how to use them.
Additional there's a good page with resources about information architecture.

Web Development with Mozilla

LiveHTTPHeaders allows you to view the HTTP headers (with Header-TAB on Page Info), edit request headers and replay URLs. - Very great!
This article is about "Using Mozilla in Testing and Debugging Web Sites". There you can read about the JavaScript Console, Cookie Controlling, Source Code Viewing, Page Info, JavaScript Debugger, LiveHTTPHeaders (see above), DOM Inspector and Cache Manager.

Bugzilla installed at work

Today I installed Bugzilla at work on my Linux box and must admit, that I like it ever more the more I use it!
I always was a bit sceptic given the overwhelming large screens with dozens of form elements, but finally I gave it a try.
Time will tell, if this was a good decision ;-)

jBpm - Java Business Process Management

jBpm is a business process engine wirtten in Java and licensed under the LGPL. It has a very nice demo too. Definitely worth a look!

BlogShares - Weblog Ranking

Just found BlogShares through a Message on Matthew Langham's Radio Weblog.
Seems that nobody has discovered my Weblog yet :-(

Twingle - A Mozilla-based CMS Client

Just found Twingle on Guido Casper's Radio Weblog.
It's a Mozilla based CMS client which communicates via WebDAV and aims to be independent of any particular CMS.

sunBow 1.0 released

sunBow 1.0 has been released on Martin Dulisch's Radio Weblog.
sunBow is a collection of Eclipse (2.1) plugins that make it easier to develop Cocoon based applications and XML solutions in general.

ContentEditable in Mozilla

ContentEditable in Mozilla is a standards-based implementation of 'contentEditable' in Mozilla.
It allows to edit HTML pages directly in the browser.

Web Usability Tests

Usability News 5.1 2003 of the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) brings some usability tests about:
* Paging vs. Scolling
* Breadcrumb Navigation
* Cascading vs. Indexed Menu Design

PMD/CPD - Finding copied and pasted code

PMD/CPD - Finding copied and pasted code in Java source code.
This gives you a good indication about how poor your OOD is ;-)

SourceForge.net now provides RSS feeds for projects

SourceForge.net now provides RSS feeds for projects.
This document explains everything you should know about it.

OpenOffice2HTML XSLT Stylesheets

Here are XSLT stylesheets available, which can transform OpenOffice documents into HTML for displaying in a web browser.