Kingsley Idehen's Blog Data Space

Screen Capture Demos (aka animated howtos and tutorials)

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:54:39 GMT

Screen video tips

Several folks wrote with questions and comments about the OS X screen video I posted the other day. I mentioned that Media Encoder was the capture tool, but didn't specify how I got from Windows Media to Flash. For that, I used Camtasia Studio. I've heard good things about Qarbon but haven't had a chance to try it yet. Chris Ryland, from Em Software, wrote to recommend SnapzPro X 2 specifically for OS X (and QuickTime).

See complete article.

Virtuoso Hosting CLR & ASP.NET Demo

Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:08:04 GMT

I finally have two live servers that demonstrate Virtuoso

Using SQL-XML Based RSS Feeds to Syndicate Documentation, Tutorials, and Demos

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:41:15 GMT

I have embellished a number of weblogs that I oversee (Personal, Virtuoso, and UDA) as part of an OpenLink technology "dog-fooding" effort. We now have SQL-XML based RSS 2.0 feeds that make an array of content available for RSS Aggregators as well as ad hoc XQuery and XPath queries over HTTP/WebDAV.

Feed	Description
Virtuoso Documentation	Product documentation available as a collection RSS feeds per chapter with a feed catalog in an OPML file.
Data Access Driver Suite Documentation

The Blog Explosion

Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:37:12 GMT

The Blog Explosion

I was just over at Technorati and noticed the "weblogs watched" count went over 400,000 today (it's at exactly 400,091 right now). It was only March 5 when the 100,000 mark was passed. At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year.

[via VentureBlog]

Clickz Weblog Business Strategies Conference: Day 1

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:09:06 GMT

Clickz Weblog Business Strategies Conference: Day 1

Timothy Appnel is an independent consultant and writer specializing in emerging technologies and trends. He is taking

What is Trackback?

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 21:20:31 GMT

What is trackback about?

Sometimes when you see a post on somebody's blog that you like, it's enough just to leave a comment on the other blog about that issue. But what if you've got something to say about the issue that you'd like to share with readers of your own blog? If you do post to your blog, you have to go and leave a comment in the other blog if you want the people there to know about your own blog entry.
[From http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/what-is-tb.htm]

Do I have to be using Movable Type?

At this time, only Movable Type is configured "out of the box" to use trackback. However, if you have your own web server space you may be able to set up Stand-Alone Trackback to work with your blogging system. You might also wish to look into similar applications such as Pingback.

No! Virtuoso's Blogg System supports this feature.

Intel Benchmark Test: Linux Goes to 600,000

Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:25:32 GMT

Intel Benchmark Test: Linux Goes to 600,000 "...Using the TPC-C benchmark test, Intel measured the computing performance of a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux, getting a score of almost 600,000 transactions per minute. "

Seems Linux is moving up to where the big boys play. (jobert) [via Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]

Inner-Browsing

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:30:57 GMT

Inner-Browsing: Extending Web Browsing the Navigation Paradigm This article introduces a paradigm where navigation and access to information occurs inside a web page - as opposed to the traditional model where a new web page is sent to the web browser when new information is requested. [via DevEdge Viewsource]

ComputerWeekly

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:33:09 GMT

BEA Systems and Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver BEA WebLogic Workshop Java Controls for sforce

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:36:34 GMT

BEA Systems and Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver BEA WebLogic Workshop Java Controls for sforce BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, and salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced a strategic alliance to provide services-oriented application development solutions based on BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and the BEA WebLogic Enterprise PlatformT. The companies' alliance will help advance sforce - the first client/service application development framework that enables enterprises to rapidly build and deliver business applications using the software-as-service model.

[via Loosely Coupled news releases live feed]

When will these guys get? You don't implement industry standards in order to become product or vendor dependent. Web Services support should not reduce choice of Application Servers. I guess we need to show them what I mean via our eCRM; it services will be SOAP consumable via a WSDL file and that's it.

The Harry Tuttle award

Tue, 27 May 2003 13:06:02 GMT

The Harry Tuttle award The weekend's Harry Tuttle award goes to Robert Ivanc. On Friday he wrote to inform me that my weblog was interfering with an otherwise painless visit to the dentist:

A few days ago, I was waiting at a dentist and trying to kill the time thought of using my Nokia 3650 (with Doris HTML browser) to have a look at your site, to see if there's anything there that might put my mind on other matters than the precarious closeness of the dentist drilling machines! And what I found out was how hard it was to get to the actual content on your site...I had to scroll through all of what is usually hidden...after about 10 minutes or so I finally got to the content. Any way to redesign it, so that content gets loaded first or putting up a mobile lightweight version?

Excellent point. I thought about this for five seconds and realized that Rob could solve this problem for himself -- and for others -- in a very simple way. I pointed him at the solution, and he picked up the ball and ran with it. ...

My blog is currently available in two XML flavors: the standard feed and the extended feed. My suggestion to Rob was to write an XSLT transform for one or the other, and pipe the XML content through it (using the W3C's public XSLT transformation service) to create a lightweight HTML rendering.

Here is the XSLT file Rob wrote. Here's how it renders my standard feed. Here's how it renders my extended feed.

As Rob notes in his writeup, there was a problem with the extended feed, so originally he was only able to pipe the standard feed to his Nokia. But that was my fault, not his. I kicked my setup and it seems to be working properly now. Rob's conclusion:

Wow, that was pretty simple and quite powerful. The power of this kind of ad hoc scripting never ceases to amaze me! [Clarity's Blog]

[via Jon's Radio]

Very cool! The power of XSLT! Now I am sure we can see how Virtuoso would extend this further? In short I will try to have this become an attribute of my Blog.

Virtuoso could enable this site to automatically determine what type of User Agent (clients such as Web Browsers) is being used by the visitor and then automatically associated the required XSTL stylesheet for the User Agent.

This was one of the very basic Virtuoso XML and XSLT demos (circa 2000-2001).

Blogging is going to provide a very fluid demo canvas for Virtuoso as this article demonstrates.