What’s up?
just a quick note on the blog, from the start of august, having a contract being postponed to late september (In Italy august is the month when almost everybody is on vacation), I had some time to play with some technology I find quite interesting, but never really had time to try out.
The first is the OPML editor recently released by Dave Winer, which goes into the line of applications started by Frontier and followed by Radio Userland. I think it is the first complete application to build upon the open source Frontier kernel and it could be the killer app for that. It has an approach different from anything else I have seen befor for it puts outlining at the hearth of the system: almost anything is viewed and edited as an outline.
I have now come to appreciate the way it lets me keep a focus on the priorities I have and to organize and develop my ideas (the more i use the outliner the more i feel hooked into this way of working ).
I have done some exploring and hacking of the program (which is open source and contains a big bunch of code to learn from) and the results have been:
- An in browser OPML viewer (here is the post and some examples)
- A small tool with the necessary to turn an opml file into and S5 presentation (here is the post and the example)
On the other side I’ve just started to explore Ruby and Ruby on Rails since it stroke to me as a tool a developer should at least have to know, since having first read of it from the signal vs noise blog. I haven’t done this before because I wanted to do this by trying the tool on an real project, now that I have the time I’ll put some effort into developing a mini system I needed for my consulting job using rails. More on this in the next few days.
Ah… and I’m planning to release the Log4Js library I’ve developed to help debug and trace javacript-heavy sites.