Category: Asides

ALE: Ajax linking and embedding

Those Zimbra guys are so clever. Via O’Reilly, AJAX Linking and Embedding (ALE) “provides the ability to embed rich content into an editable document and to then interact with and edit that content in much the same way as it is done with traditional office suites and applications in a desktop environment. A key difference is that … the embedded objects are AJAX components that are embedded into an editable HTML document.” Download the 0.2 spec and check out the hosted demo.

You work for me, now shut the fuck up

Via Zak Greant, Tim Bray lays it down: “As a thought experiment, replace the word ‘blogging’ with ‘email’ or ‘conference presentation’ or ‘teleconference’ or ‘sales presentation’. Or ‘barroom conversation’ for that matter. Quick, quick, you wanna be safe, you better lock all your employees up and never let ’em say anything to anyone!” … “If your employees are going to say stupid things in public, you’ve got a management problem and a policy problem, not a blogging problem.”

Code search engine Krugle looks promising

Code search engine Krugle seems to be nearing its initial release and based on a screencast they put out a few weeks ago, it looks like it’s going to be a tremendous resource for developers.

Ironic though — and perhaps a vehicle for an academic attitudinal adjustment — Krugle may give rise to a level of productive and efficient code reuse that could hardly be attained before. Which is to say that the need to write original code anymore will certainly become… deprecated. Man, is copyright so obsolete or what?