Lucene and Solr ApacheCon presentations

For those of you interested in Lucene and Solr, here's Yonik's ApacheCon presentations.

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Web Framework Comparison

I was awaiting Matt Raible's Web Framework Comparison at ApacheCon because it gives a good overwiew of the state of web frameworks (at least it echo's with my guts feeling about how many people use what).
Interesting reading. Even if JSF is clearly ahead in term of use, still people seems to dislike it...

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Javascript and Ajax lazy links

Various interesting articles related to javascript:

• Ajax framework comparison (Dojo, Yahoo, Prototype)
• JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default, I like this quote:

Some of us were punished so much so that we actually started to like it. We point and laugh at the all the awful HTML and JavaScript on the web that barely functions. We scratch our heads and wonder why the browser can't give us the punishment we so richly deserve for our terrible, terrible mistakes.

Skype new useful feature

I just installed Skype new windows version and they added this useful new feature:

Now the chat windows only blink when someone say my name ;)

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Ps3 answer to Second Life

I don't particularly like those metaverse things but at least this one looks nice...

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Microsoft Access files trick

A little trick to work with legacy access files.

What can you do to browse an old Microsoft Access File (.mdb) when you don't have Microsoft Access ?
Create an ODBC connection in windows and use OpenOffice Base to connect to it :)
You can take a look at this tutorial for MySQL, it's almost the same for the Access files.

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Writing Error Messages for Security Features

I was looking for some nice security related error message since I had to make a user friendly error message page. I found this nice and pragmatic article for msdn, just what I needed :)

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Lazy usability links

Some links I've been reading lately and I'm to lazy to do a full post about each one:

• Breadcrumbs: a single line of text to show a page's location in the site hierarchy
• Why Apple study about screen size is wrong - That doesn't mean I don't want a big screen ;)
• Participation Inequality (90% of users are lurkers / 1% of users contribute)
• Progressive Disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

Vieux ?

Apparement je dois devenir vieux, il y a un peu trop de chose que je comprend dans cette description (oui je savais pour les Twix/Raiders et mon premier PC était un Commodore)!

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The IPod UI history

Really interesting article about the evolution of the IPod design

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