Today at University of Nottingham, we’re deployed an alpha of the People-Concept Networking platform prototype. It’s the alpha, so it doesn’t do a lot as yet and is released only for internal overview and testing of the basic infrastructure. It is however, an occasion to disclose what I am working at now, along with an introduction to some PCN theory.
I’m thinking about new feature for SCAN — some conditional actions to be executed individually or in a batch on selected documents. It would be useful for automation of metadata setting, or for defining custom autotagging rules.
There are results of experiment with using SCAN for text analysis and autotagging J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” book.
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If ClassLoader Delegation, though esoteric and counterintuitive, is an example of some design, there are some things in Java that are confusing and just poorly designed at once.
Java is great platform for component development but there are some odd and counterintuitive things on the way. One of these hidden pitfalls waiting for a developer who is going to replace default system ClassLoader with a custom one.
I’m trying to define the popular concept of “tags” in terms of the Information Retrieval and to find an appropriate algorithmic strategy for to automate the processes of choosing the tags for text documents.
For my ongoing research, it would be helpful to gather some feedback from random people on their personal document management, navigation and information seeking preferences. Please send your answers to alexeya (at) gmail (dot) com or just attach a comment below. Thanks in advance!
I had nice last weekend gathering new harvest of apples, drinking fresh apple juice and playing with SuperKaramba widgets – a good opportunity to take a sort of “recreational programming”. Perhaps all modern KDE users know those nice resource eaters eye-candies which are living right on the desktop surface and displaying the clocks, calendars, weather forecasts, system monitors and so on.
Instead of developing some Yet Another Big Animated Clock, I decided to write something practical. What I’d like to have is a widget which would ask my e-mail client (KMail) for the headers of the latest unread messages to show them on the desktop.
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It’s commonly called “CMS” but as deeper you’re digging into it, it’s getting clear that it is something greater than the “Content Management System”. Or perhaps, that the “Content Management” is something greater than we used to think. Actually, Drupal’s darned flexibility allows to do a lot of things which would need the application servers and all that stuff. And in the simplest case, it will need no programming – you can build for instance, a simple database application (like a products directory etc) or even a light CRM/ERP for your intranet as just a specialized Drupal configuration.
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If you are a SW addict like I am myself, consider to read this article. It’s very mind-sobering. The last year or two we all had uneasy feeling that something was going wrong but nobody ever dared to analyze and understand what and why. The author of this article did.
