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Ars Digita Part Two

Saturday, 6/24, I spent the day with about a hundred or so other developers interested in learning about the tools behind Ars Digita and Photo.net. Philip Greenspun gave the lecture on the tools used, which include AOLServer, Oracle, and Tcl. Most of the lecture revolved around material that is covered in his book, Phil and Alex’s Guide To Web Publising.

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  • Key factor is a scaleable RDBMS system tied to the back-end of the site
  • A solid webserver API helps tremendously in developing custom solutions
  • Productive online communities are possible using this structure
  • Develop a user-centric (provide users with voice, feedback mechanism, personalization, and authorship) architecture and concept for the site

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Well, those are a few. I’m sure Philip would add more to the list, just read the book. Overall, I highly recommend his lectures to anyone, and the book does make a good coffee-table book (Philip’s own recommendation on possible uses for it).

Ars Digita Part One

Today, I spent the day listening to Philip Greenspun’s view of what the world of web-based applications should look like, where he thinks it is going, and what we, as developers should do about it.

He had many interesting things to say, especially with respect to managing data through the use of solid RDBM systems. I spent some time reading his book on web publishing

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, and I tend to agree with his points. The biggest are scaleablity and infrastructure quality.

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The other fun thing was that they gave out awards to many students, two who were 13 years old, for creating interesting non-commercial web applications. The finalists for this year created some fantastic apps. This is a great test-bed for cultivating new students and development ideas. Some past winners have created lots of their stock applications. Their free services include a reminder system, a web-based presentation system, and an uptime monitor that is reminiscent of what Dave Winer created in dealing with his ISP troubles this year.

All in all, this was a great presentation. I’m going back tomorrow morning for a day of looking at their tool set. They have a large system built on top of AOLServer and Oracle using Tcl as the glue language. AOLServer has a built in Tcl interperter, so it acts much like Apache with mod_perl. Philip describes the speed gain over traditional CGI’s as a factor or 100.

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: “Web-Integrated Multimedia”. I like this perspective on integrating video and web pages. This application presents a solid foundation for developing an educationally specific implementation.

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Cancer on the web A great editorial that covers some principles of good design, and some principles of being a constructive participant in building the web.

Jacob Neilsen spotlights Gnutella. He links to the article above and Tog’s rant on user testing. This will come back to haunt most design shops. Sametz only tests on browser rendering, not on actual user tasks. Time will tell…

My Old Stomping Grounds

I used to work at UMass Lowell

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, and specifically for the Office of Residence Life, and the Division of Continuing Education, which has a new and longer name now.

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I learned web publishing while working at with the Cybered

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part of Continuing Education office. Our first in-house web server was a PowerMac 7100. That hosted our course database for all of Continuing Education, as well as a local site for the department. We had WebStar, FMP, Lasso, Tango, and some other fun tools. After Cybered got bigger, the university kicked us off their unix box, and we had to run all our courses from an NT box. It wasn’t until I was ready to leave that we took the plunge and got a unix box for the use of our programming classes.

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Lots of great readings

Take a look at the alerbox link this week. I just got Jacob’s new book and I’m trying to read that, Philip Greenspun’s book, and the Yale Web Style Guide, all at the same time.

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Phil and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing

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Designing Web Usability

Free classes run by Philip Greenspun, et al.

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It’s A New Theme

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I love the new themes option! The TV frame was fun, but it got boring after a while. How about more themes, and then having a random one each day? I like the idea!

Finally put up a page for Helco Electric (http://www.helcoelectric.com) but that’s just a placeholder right now. I’m working on the design now. I hope to have some nice rough sketches this weekend.

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June 23 and 24, I signed up for a pair of free web development workshops. Ars Digita (http://www.arsdigita.com/

) hosts these, and I think they’re run by Phil Greenspun (http://philip.greenspun.com/) It sounds like a whole new window into web apps that I’ve not explored. They use AOLServer, Oracle, and Tcl as the glue.