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12,474 | ariejan | 2007-04-13T06:31:11 | Rails, Resources and permalinks | null | http://ariejan.net/2007/04/12/rails-resources-and-permalinks/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,475 | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-13T06:44:41 | A conductor of history / The former Shockley Labs site now is simply a boarded-up fruit stand, awaiting renovation | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/12/BUGEIP6TGI1.DTL | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,477 | staunch | 2007-04-13T06:55:10 | Seth's Godin "Loosen up those worldviews" | null | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/id_ignore_him_t.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,478 | staunch | 2007-04-13T06:56:16 | Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data - | null | http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/timoreilly_0413 | 5 | 2 | [
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12,484 | bootload | 2007-04-13T07:09:37 | My Web 2.0 stack | null | http://darwinianweb.com/archive/2005/121.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | 404 - PAGE NOT FOUND | null | null |
ERROR 404 - PAGE NOT FOUND
Why am I seeing this page?
404 means the file is not found. If you have already uploaded the file then the name may be misspelled or it is in a different folder.
Other Possible Causes
You may get a 404 error for images because you have Hot Link Protection turned on and the domain is not on the list of authorized domains.
If you go to your temporary url (http://ip/~username/) and get this error, there maybe a problem with the rule set stored in an .htaccess file. You can try renaming that file to .htaccess-backup and refreshing the site to see if that resolves the issue.
It is also possible that you have inadvertently deleted your document root or the your account may need to be recreated. Either way, please contact your web host immediately.
Are you using WordPress? See the Section on 404 errors after clicking a link in WordPress.
How to find the correct spelling and folder
Missing or Broken Files
When you get a 404 error be sure to check the URL that you are attempting to use in your browser.This tells the server what resource it should attempt to request.
http://example.com/example/Example/help.html
In this example the file must be in public_html/example/Example/
Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations.
For addon domains, the file must be in public_html/addondomain.com/example/Example/ and the names are case-sensitive.
Broken Image
When you have a missing image on your site you may see a box on your page with with a red X where the image is missing. Right click on the X and choose Properties. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found.
This varies by browser, if you do not see a box on your page with a red X try right clicking on the page, then select View Page Info, and goto the Media Tab.
http://example.com/cgi-sys/images/banner.PNG
In this example the image file must be in public_html/cgi-sys/images/
Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity PNG and png are not the same locations.
404 Errors After Clicking WordPress Links
When working with WordPress, 404 Page Not Found errors can often occur when a new theme has been activated or when the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file have been altered.
When you encounter a 404 error in WordPress, you have two options for correcting it.
Option 1: Correct the Permalinks
Log in to WordPress.
From the left-hand navigation menu in WordPress, click Settings > Permalinks (Note the current setting. If you are using a custom structure, copy or save the custom structure somewhere.)
Select Default.
Click Save Settings.
Change the settings back to the previous configuration (before you selected Default). Put the custom structure back if you had one.
Click Save Settings.
This will reset the permalinks and fix the issue in many cases. If this doesn't work, you may need to edit your .htaccess file directly.
Option 2: Modify the .htaccess File
Add the following snippet of code to the top of your .htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# End WordPress
If your blog is showing the wrong domain name in links, redirecting to another site, or is missing images and style, these are all usually related to the same problem: you have the wrong domain name configured in your WordPress blog.
How to modify your .htaccess file
The .htaccess file contains directives (instructions) that tell the server how to behave in certain scenarios and directly affect how your website functions.
Redirects and rewriting URLs are two very common directives found in a .htaccess file, and many scripts such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Magento add directives to the .htaccess so those scripts can function.
It is possible that you may need to edit the .htaccess file at some point, for various reasons.This section covers how to edit the file in cPanel, but not what may need to be changed.(You may need to consult other articles and resources for that information.)
There are Many Ways to Edit a .htaccess File
Edit the file on your computer and upload it to the server via FTP
Use an FTP program's Edit Mode
Use SSH and a text editor
Use the File Manager in cPanel
The easiest way to edit a .htaccess file for most people is through the File Manager in cPanel.
How to Edit .htaccess files in cPanel's File Manager
Before you do anything, it is suggested that you backup your website so that you can revert back to a previous version if something goes wrong.
Open the File Manager
Log into cPanel.
In the Files section, click on the File Manager icon.
Check the box for Document Root for and select the domain name you wish to access from the drop-down menu.
Make sure Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)" is checked.
Click Go. The File Manager will open in a new tab or window.
Look for the .htaccess file in the list of files. You may need to scroll to find it.
To Edit the .htaccess File
Right click on the .htaccess file and click Code Edit from the menu. Alternatively, you can click on the icon for the .htaccess file and then click on the Code Editor icon at the top of the page.
A dialogue box may appear asking you about encoding. Just click Edit to continue. The editor will open in a new window.
Edit the file as needed.
Click Save Changes in the upper right hand corner when done. The changes will be saved.
Test your website to make sure your changes were successfully saved. If not, correct the error or revert back to the previous version until your site works again.
Once complete, you can click Close to close the File Manager window.
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12,494 | mattculbreth | 2007-04-13T08:35:34 | Y Combinator: A new twist on finding hot companies | null | http://origin.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5654015?nclick_check=1 | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-07T07:22:01 | null | train |
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12,506 | Romati | 2007-04-13T09:06:38 | Quintura and Blinkx partner on visual video search | null | http://www.vecosys.com/2007/04/10/quintura-and-blinkx-partner-on-visual-video-search/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,507 | zinosoufi | 2007-04-13T09:10:29 | WriteWith : Everybody point and laugh | null | http://www.uncov.com/2007/4/12/writewith-everybody-point-and-laugh | 15 | 24 | [
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12,517 | mattculbreth | 2007-04-13T10:09:31 | Interesting funding information about some YC alums (includes Reddit's acquisition price) | null | http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_5657755?nclick_check=1 | 18 | 14 | [
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Here are some of the more prominent “alumni” of Y Combinator:
Loopt, Palo Alto
A mobile application that shows users where their friends are. Loopt has received $5 million from venture firms Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates.
Reddit, San Francisco
A social bookmarking Website where users can post links to content on the Web. Reddit was acquired last year by Conde Nast for roughly $12 million.
I’m in Like With You, New York
A still-stealth service that fosters flirting online. The company recently raised a round of angel funding from unnamed investors.
Wufoo, Tampa, Fla.
A company whose application helps users create online forms, such as job applications, workshop registrations and event calendars. The company has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing from unnamed investors.
Inkling Markets, Chicago
A still-stealth start-up that “helps organizations tap into the collective wisdom of their employees, peers and customers,” according to its site, which also says it remains self-funded for now.
| 2024-11-08T07:36:54 | en | train |
12,519 | theudude2002 | 2007-04-13T10:29:20 | The Death of UI Consistency | null | http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2007/04/the_death_of_ui_consistency.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,520 | henning | 2007-04-13T10:32:53 | A hypothetical: what would you do if users were mostly using your software in uninspiring ways you didn't intend? | null | 1 | 4 | [
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12,522 | rms | 2007-04-13T10:43:04 | The Justin.tv "scrum" whiteboard | null | http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=456893043&context=set-72157600070178723&size=o | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,524 | drusenko | 2007-04-13T11:13:43 | Y Combinator a new twist on finding hot companies | null | http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5654015?nclick_check=1 | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,529 | sharpshoot | 2007-04-13T11:58:17 | How game mechanics can make your app more fun | null | http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/03/how_game_mechanics_can_make_yo.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,533 | bootload | 2007-04-13T12:37:25 | Net works for Generation Y | null | http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=ef620521-dfb6-429a-a020-a0f24b6fe04e&k=97122 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,534 | bootload | 2007-04-13T12:41:06 | Passion key to success | null | http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/entrepreneur/story.html?id=8cf93665-9fd6-42c5-bb39-e84050fd791b | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,536 | bootload | 2007-04-13T12:45:39 | Redherring 100: 200 startup finalists | null | http://www.herringevents.com/spring07/redherring100.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,537 | bootload | 2007-04-13T12:46:27 | E-commerce sites drive back office | null | http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/entrepreneur/story.html?id=d28c2e7e-7664-462b-a5e5-08e32de2546d | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,538 | bootload | 2007-04-13T12:47:32 | Entrepreneurs stick to the task
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12,539 | bootload | 2007-04-13T12:55:03 | Data Visualization of Web Stats | null | http://www.useit.com/alertbox/visualizing-traffic-analysis.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Data Visualization of Web Stats: Logarithmic Charts and the Drooping Tail | 2006-08-14T05:00:00+0000 | Jakob Nielsen |
Summary:
Using a linear diagram to plot data from website traffic logs can lead you to overlook important conclusions. Sometimes advanced visualizations are worth the effort.
Whenever I show double-logarithmic charts in my usability seminars, I see the audience members' eyes glaze over. People don't like anything but the simplest data visualizations, and I've certainly learned my lessons from the feedback sheets and scaled back on the amount of statistics I present.
Still, I can't help myself: there's data underlying the usability guidelines, and I have to show some of it. To understand traffic patterns found by Web analytics, for example, some of those hated advanced-visualization plots are sadly necessary. Without them, you simply can't tell what's going on.
As an example, consider the following linear graph of my log file analysis of how many visitors each page gets on a given website:
This linear graph shows what looks like the classic "long tail" distribution (which is really Zipf's Law). And indeed, it almost is. The difference between theory and practice becomes clear, however, when we plot the same data on logarithmic scales:
It's now clear that we have a drooping tail: the site simply doesn't have enough content to supply the predicted demand at the low end.
Without this fancy log-log plot, we would have never seen the site's potential for increasing traffic by adding large amounts of low-volume content. I'm amazed at how often articles analyzing Web traffic or "long tail"-type businesses use linear plots that fail to show what's really going on.
To compare high-volume and low-volume events in the same diagram, it's typically best to use a logarithmic plot. (If you're using Excel to plot your charts, you can get logarithmic scales by simply double-clicking each axis, choosing the Scale tab in the resulting Format Axis dialog box, and checking the box for Logarithmic scale.)
In addition to the drooping tail, my original analysis also found a hump on the traffic plot for search queries -- a different phenomenon that also only shows up on a log-log chart.
Wag the Drooping Tail
Analysis Outcome?
Wag the Drooping Tail
So, what would happen if our sample site could wag its traffic tail up to the straight line representing the traffic potential the theory predicts?
In my analysis, current traffic with 1,000 pages was 2.6 M pageviews over an 8-week period. With 260,000 pages, the site could expect traffic to increase to 4.8 M pageviews over the same period. That is, the 259,000 new low-traffic pages would get 2.2 M pageviews, for an average of 9 views per page.
Now, if we extend the 8-week period to a full year, the total traffic would almost double -- from 16.9 M to 32.2 M pageviews -- giving each new page an average of 58 views.
What's the value of 58 pageviews?
Over the last several years, Yahoo! has made between 0.2 and 0.4 cents per non-search pageview. However, I believe that Internet advertising is over-hyped and that advertisers are deluding themselves into overpaying. In the long term, non-search advertising's value will drop to 0.1 cents or less per page.
So, at the expected long-term value of 0.1 cents per view, 58 pageviews have a value of about 6 cents. If we assume the new pages can attract traffic for five years, and then discount future cash flow by 10% per year, the present value of each new page is 24 cents.
Not much. But we're expecting to add 259,000 pages, so the total value would be $62,000.
It sounds like a nice sum -- but could the site create 259,000 new pages for $62K? Obviously not, assuming the employees creating the pages earned salaries higher than that of the average ant.
The only feasible approach is that chosen by many sites these days: to con users into contributing content for free. However, doing so requires that sites develop a system for user contributions, which (if done correctly) requires user testing and other quality assurance before being fielded. Given that the system's features aren't particularly advanced, our sample site could probably develop it for less than $62K. But it wouldn't be free.
(Update: Chris Anderson found a drooping tail for the popularity of movies. The drooping tail shape may be more common than previously expected. Maybe now people will go back and reanalyze their long tail statistics with the correct diagrams :-)
Analysis Outcome?
It probably wouldn't pay for our sample site to take advantage of the opportunity that log analysis revealed. The long tail's end pays for aggregators who get their products from others, but companies who must develop their own are usually better served by staying away from the full tail.
That said, pursuing the tail's end might be valuable if a site meets one of two conditions: it has a better way than low-value ads to monetize traffic, or it has so many users that the total income would be substantially more than the cost of developing the new functionality.
In any case, you should certainly run through such exploratory ROI scenarios for your own site. To do so, you need correct data analysis and this typically requires more advanced visualizations than you see in most places. It's here that logarithmic plots deserve a chance -- despite their intimidating name.
(To avoid misunderstandings: you obviously shouldn't show log charts in websites targeted at a broad consumer audience. They're for internal use only -- or for websites like mine that target an intellectual audience.)
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12,541 | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-13T13:01:40 | Cybercrooks exploiting new Windows DNS flaw | CNET News.com | null | http://news.com.com/Cybercrooks+exploiting+new+Windows+DNS+flaw/2100-7349_3-6175743.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
12,542 | usablecontent | 2007-04-13T13:28:25 | YourStreet.com Brings Social Network to Your Street | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/13/yourstreetcom-brings-social-network-to-your-street/ | 2 | 4 | [
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12,700 | usablecontent | 2007-04-13T20:49:51 | Blogflux Acquires Commentful | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/13/blogflux-acquires-commentful/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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download this manual file.
Preface
1. The Extensible Language
2. Functions
3. Functional Programming
4. Utility Functions
5. Returning Functions
6. Functions as Representation
7. Macros
8. When to Use Macros
9. Variable Capture
10. Other Macro Pitfalls
11. Classic Macros
12. Generalized Variables
13. Computation at Compile-Time
14. Anaphoric Macros
15. Macros Returning Functions
16. Macro-Defining Macros
17. Read-Macros
18. Destructuring
19. A Query Compiler
20. Continuations
21. Multiple Processes
22. Nondeterminism
23. Parsing with ATNs
24. Prolog
25. Object-Oriented Lisp
A. Packages
B. Notes
Index of Figures
Index of Functions
Concept Index
-- The Detailed Node Listing ---
The Extensible Language
1.1 Design by Evolution
1.2 Programming Bottom-Up
1.3 Extensible Software
1.4 Extending Lisp
1.5 Why Lisp (or When)
Functions
2.1 Functions as Data
2.2 Defining Functions
2.3 Functional Arguments
2.4 Functions as Properties
2.5 Scope
2.6 Closures
2.7 Local Functions
2.8 Tail-Recursion
2.9 Compilation
2.10 Functions from Lists
Functional Programming
3.1 Functional Design
3.2 Imperative Outside-In
3.3 Functional Interfaces
3.4 Interactive Programming
Utility Functions
4.1 Birth of a Utility
4.2 Invest in Abstraction
4.3 Operations on Lists
4.4 Search
4.5 Mapping
4.6 I/O
4.7 Symbols and Strings
4.8 Density
Returning Functions
5.1 Common Lisp Evolves
5.2 Orthogonality
5.3 Memoizing
5.4 Composing Functions
5.5 Recursion on Cdrs
5.6 Recursion on Subtrees
5.7 When to Build Functions
Functions as Representation
6.1 Networks
6.2 Compiling Networks
6.3 Looking Forward
Macros
7.1 How Macros Work
7.2 Backquote
7.3 Defining Simple Macros
7.4 Testing Macroexpansion
7.5 Destructuring in Parameter Lists
7.6 A Model of Macros
7.7 Macros as Programs
7.8 Macro Style
7.9 Dependence on Macros
7.10 Macros from Functions
7.11 Symbol Macros
When to Use Macros
8.1 When Nothing Else Will Do
8.2 Macro or Function?
8.3 Applications for Macros
Variable Capture
9.1 Macro Argument Capture
9.2 Free Symbol Capture
9.3 When Capture Occurs
9.4 Avoiding Capture with Better Names
9.5 Avoiding Capture by Prior Evaluation
9.6 Avoiding Capture with Gensyms
9.7 Avoiding Capture with Packages
9.8 Capture in Other Name-Spaces
9.9 Why Bother?
Other Macro Pitfalls
10.1 Number of Evaluations
10.2 Order of Evaluation
10.3 Non-functional Expanders
10.4 Recursion
Classic Macros
11.1 Creating Context
11.2 The with- Macro
11.3 Conditional Evaluation
11.4 Iteration
11.5 Iteration with Multiple Values
11.6 Need for Macros
Generalized Variables
12.1 The Concept
12.2 The Multiple Evaluation Problem
12.3 New Utilities
12.4 More Complex Utilities
12.5 Defining Inversions
Computation at Compile-Time
13.1 New Utilities
13.2 Bezier Curves Example
13.3 Applications
Anaphoric Macros
14.1 Anaphoric Variants
14.2 Failure
14.3 Referential Transparency
Macros Returning Functions
15.1 Building Functions
15.2 Recursion on Cdrs
15.3 Recursion on Subtrees
15.4 Lazy Evaluation
Macro-Defining Macros
16.1 Abbreviations
16.2 Properties
16.3 Anaphoric Macros
Read-Macros
17.1 Macro Characters
17.2 Dispatching Macro Characters
17.3 Delimiters
17.4 When What Happens
Destructuring
18.1 Destructuring on Lists
18.2 Other Structures
A Query Compiler
19.1 The Database
19.2 Pattern-Matching Queries
19.3 A Query Interpreter
19.4 Restrictions on Binding
19.5 A Query Compiler
Continuations
20.1 Scheme Continuations
20.2 Continuation-Passing Macros
20.3 Code-Walkers and CPS Conversion
Multiple Processes
21.1 The Process Abstraction
21.2 Implementation
21.3 The Less-than-Rapid Prototype
Nondeterminism
22.1 The Concept
22.2 Search
22.3 Scheme Implementation
22.4 Common Lisp Implementation
22.5 Cuts
22.6 True Nondeterminism
Parsing with ATNs
23.1 Background
23.2 The Formalism
23.3 Nondeterminism
23.4 An ATN Compiler
23.5 A Sample ATN
Prolog
24.1 Concepts
24.2 An Interpreter
24.3 Rules
24.4 The Need for Nondeterminism
24.5 New Implementation
24.6 Adding Prolog Features
24.7 Examples
24.8 The Senses of Compile
Object-Oriented Lisp
25.1 Plus ca Change
25.2 Objects in Plain Lisp
25.3 Classes and Instances
25.4 Methods
25.5 Auxiliary Methods and Combination
25.6 CLOS and Lisp
25.7 When to Object
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12,778 | mattjaynes | 2007-04-14T00:26:25 | Simplicity: The Ultimate Sophistication | null | http://www.uie.com/articles/simplicity/ | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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12,781 | mattjaynes | 2007-04-14T00:30:45 | Most Impressive Recruiting Pitch I've Ever Seen! | null | http://senzee.blogspot.com/2007/02/red-5s-pitch.html | 13 | 5 | [
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12,844 | JoeEntrepreneur | 2007-04-14T07:12:15 | Any suggestions on having PR before launch? About to launch Onista.com in early June and want to prepare the PR before the launch. | null | http://www.onista.com | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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12,860 | mattjaynes | 2007-04-14T09:53:28 | Most Un-Impressive Recruiting Pitch I've Ever Seen :( | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/372-dear-no-first-name | 7 | 5 | [
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12,883 | mattjaynes | 2007-04-14T13:09:26 | Palm Announces New Linux Based Mobile Platform | null | http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9351/palm-announces-new-linux-based-mobile-platform/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Palm Announces New Linux Based Mobile Platform | null | Posted By: Ryan Kairer Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:24:15 AM |
Today at Palm Inc's Analyst Day, Palm CEO Ed Colligan officially announced that Palm will deliver a new Linux and open source based mobile computing platform combined with Palm OS Garnet technology on new products later this year. The new platform was just announced at the Palm Analyst meeting and details are light at this point and still coming in. Read on for some slides and more information from the presentation.
The platform is described as a "new foundation for Palm." It will combine aspects of Palm OS Garnet and a Linux core. Palm plans to "evolve" the Palm Developer community to the new platform.
Colligan highlighted and stressed a few points about the new platform. He continually stressed the importance of the user experience citing the ability to have an instant on, highly portable device with great battery life. Other highlights included greater hardware flexibility and the ability to handle simultaneous voice and data, two key ares which have hampered the traditional Palm OS in recent years.
Another key aspect would be the device's web browsing experience. Colligan said Palm is focusing highly on connected web applications and web services built around mobile devices. He cited the ability to easily backup and restore over the web, delivering software and device updates over the internet and wireless software distribution. The recent Opera brower licensing agreement is likely tied to this new platform.
Colligan also revealed that this was a new platform that Palm has been working on, in house for a number of years. He stated that Palm would not license this new OS to outside hardware companies, meaning this will be a Palm exclusive platform.
This is a separate project from Palm Inc and is not related to the ACCESS Linux Platform, which is being developed by ACCESS, formerly PalmSource. Many of the technical software and hardware details have yet to be announced.
Linux Product Hints
Some further hints and details about the new device were alluded to in the question and answer session that followed. Ed Colligan remarked that we could expect to see new products "very soon" this year on both existing and the new linux based platform. During the last quarterly conference call, Colligan said that "clearly we [Palm] have been working on a major new area that has been speculated about in the press and talked about by Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins previously dropped major hints that he would reveal more details for Palm fans at an upcoming conference in May.
At various points Palm executives talked up the attractiveness of free wireless data access and stated that Palm has developed a unique implementation of WiFi in order to maximize the battery life in regards to future products. Colligan also mentioned that it will not be critical to offer this new platform/device initially through carriers. He indicated that Palm is going to offer this product direct to customers, but then said they could eventually be offered via carriers.
This could indicate either that the first generation may not have or require telephony functionality, and might be positioned as a wireless Internet device. On the other hand, it may be user upgradable to wireless data service or offered in multiple versions with and without phone service. The most likely scenario is that this new OS will power a wide range of devices from Palm in the future and the first version may debut on a PDA like tablet device, with smartphones to follow down the line.
The Analyst presentation concluded without any technical or developer details revealed about the new Linux based platform. Many questions remain to be answered as to what the official name will be, what Linux technologies are included, how Palm OS Garnet compatibility will be handled and what the development environment will be composed of. Colligan ended the Q&A session stating that the Linux based platform will be a integral "core technology" for Palm for the foreseeable future.
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Sometimes I just can’t get anything done.
Sure, I come into the office, putter around, check my email every ten seconds, read the web, even do a few brainless tasks like paying the American Express bill. But getting back into the flow of writing code just doesn’t happen.
These bouts of unproductiveness usually last for a day or two. But there have been times in my career as a developer when I went for weeks at a time without being able to get anything done. As they say, I’m not in flow. I’m not in the zone. I’m not anywhere.
Everybody has mood swings; for some people they are mild, for others, they can be more pronounced or even dysfunctional. And the unproductive periods do seem to correlate somewhat with gloomier moods.
It makes me think of those researchers who say that basically people can’t control what they eat, so any attempt to diet is bound to be short term and they will always yoyo back to their natural weight. Maybe as a software developer I really can’t control when I’m productive, and I just have to take the slow times with the fast times and hope that they average out to enough lines of code to make me employable.
What drives me crazy is that ever since my first job I’ve realized that as a developer, I usually average about two or three hours a day of productive coding. When I had a summer internship at Microsoft, a fellow intern told me he was actually only going into work from 12 to 5 every day. Five hours, minus lunch, and his team loved him because he still managed to get a lot more done than average. I’ve found the same thing to be true. I feel a little bit guilty when I see how hard everybody else seems to be working, and I get about two or three quality hours in a day, and still I’ve always been one of the most productive members of the team. That’s probably why when Peopleware and XP insist on eliminating overtime and working strictly 40 hour weeks, they do so secure in the knowledge that this won’t reduce a team’s output.
But it’s not the days when I “only” get two hours of work done that worry me. It’s the days when I can’t do anything.
I’ve thought about this a lot. I tried to remember the time when I got the most work done in my career. It was probably when Microsoft moved me into a beautiful, plush new office with large picture windows overlooking a pretty stone courtyard full of cherry trees in bloom. Everything was clicking. For months I worked nonstop grinding out the detailed specification for Excel Basic — a monumental ream of paper going into incredible detail covering a gigantic object model and programming environment. I literally never stopped. When I had to go to Boston for MacWorld I took a laptop with me, and documented the Window class sitting on a pleasant terrace at HBS.
Once you get into flow it’s not too hard to keep going. Many of my days go like this: (1) get into work (2) check email, read the web, etc. (3) decide that I might as well have lunch before getting to work (4) get back from lunch (5) check email, read the web, etc. (6) finally decide that I’ve got to get started (7) check email, read the web, etc. (8) decide again that I really have to get started (9) launch the damn editor and (10) write code nonstop until I don’t realize that it’s already 7:30 pm.
Somewhere between step 8 and step 9 there seems to be a bug, because I can’t always make it across that chasm. For me, just getting started is the only hard thing. An object at rest tends to remain at rest. There’s something incredible heavy in my brain that is extremely hard to get up to speed, but once it’s rolling at full speed, it takes no effort to keep it going. Like a bicycle decked out for a cross-country, self-supported bike trip — when you first start riding a bike with all that gear, it’s hard to believe how much work it takes to get rolling, but once you are rolling, it feels just as easy as riding a bike without any gear.
Maybe this is the key to productivity: just getting started. Maybe when pair programming works it works because when you schedule a pair programming session with your buddy, you force each other to get started.
When I was an Israeli paratrooper a general stopped by to give us a little speech about strategy. In infantry battles, he told us, there is only one strategy: Fire and Motion. You move towards the enemy while firing your weapon. The firing forces him to keep his head down so he can’t fire at you. (That’s what the soldiers mean when they shout “cover me.” It means, “fire at our enemy so he has to duck and can’t fire at me while I run across this street, here.” It works.) The motion allows you to conquer territory and get closer to your enemy, where your shots are much more likely to hit their target. If you’re not moving, the enemy gets to decide what happens, which is not a good thing. If you’re not firing, the enemy will fire at you, pinning you down.
I remembered this for a long time. I noticed how almost every kind of military strategy, from air force dogfights to large scale naval maneuvers, is based on the idea of Fire and Motion. It took me another fifteen years to realize that the principle of Fire and Motion is how you get things done in life. You have to move forward a little bit, every day. It doesn’t matter if your code is lame and buggy and nobody wants it. If you are moving forward, writing code and fixing bugs constantly, time is on your side. Watch out when your competition fires at you. Do they just want to force you to keep busy reacting to their volleys, so you can’t move forward?
Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features. Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up only on Windows XP. The companies who stumble are the ones who spend too much time reading tea leaves to figure out the future direction of Microsoft. People get worried about .NET and decide to rewrite their whole architecture for .NET because they think they have to. Microsoft is shooting at you, and it’s just cover fire so that they can move forward and you can’t, because this is how the game is played, Bubby. Are you going to support Hailstorm? SOAP? RDF? Are you supporting it because your customers need it, or because someone is firing at you and you feel like you have to respond? The sales teams of the big companies understand cover fire. They go into their customers and say, “OK, you don’t have to buy from us. Buy from the best vendor. But make sure that you get a product that supports (XML / SOAP / CDE / J2EE) because otherwise you’ll be Locked In The Trunk.” Then when the little companies try to sell into that account, all they hear is obedient CTOs parrotting “Do you have J2EE?” And they have to waste all their time building in J2EE even if it doesn’t really make any sales, and gives them no opportunity to distinguish themselves. It’s a checkbox feature — you do it because you need the checkbox saying you have it, but nobody will use it or needs it. And it’s cover fire.
Fire and Motion, for small companies like mine, means two things. You have to have time on your side, and you have to move forward every day. Sooner or later you will win. All I managed to do yesterday is improve the color scheme in FogBUGZ just a little bit. That’s OK. It’s getting better all the time. Every day our software is better and better and we have more and more customers and that’s all that matters. Until we’re a company the size of Oracle, we don’t have to think about grand strategies. We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.
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