The first smart client for social bookmarks manager- August 20, 2004 Somehow I must have missed the news that theres already a smart client for del.icio.us. The delicious client even supports type ahead search (which I called realtime search). Unfortunately for me, it's for native MAC Cocoa application, and I don't own a MAC. I'm currently running Windows XP and Suse Linux 9.1 on my laptop. I'm still planning to write my own client probably based on the Eclipse RCP framework. This would then be the first crossplatform client, wouldn't ithttp://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/the_first_smart_client_for Does static typing help with refactoring- August 12, 2004 Ian thinks it does and I agree. But I disagree with one of his other points. in Smalltalk, Python, or other dynamically typed languages, refactoring is just a string match. As other have said in the comments, the original Smalltalk Refactoring browser works on AST's. This means it can differ between a comment and a variable and a class for example. A refactoring browser for Smalltalk could also inference types,to improve the refactoring results. I think the first Smalltalk...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/does_static_typing_help_with Beagle screenshots available- August 12, 2004 Beagle screenshots are available now. Beagle is Novells attempt to create a Desktop search for gnome. The screenshots look promising, showing a "federated" search over files, IM conversations, web pages visited and Google. If this tool would be realtime like Apples Spotlight Linux could be another step ahead of Windows.http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/beagle_screenshots_available |