November archive

Interface Design on Functioning Form

November 18, 2005

I'm obviously a Google fan, but to spread the love today, let me point out this site by a Yahoo designer. Functioning Form is the name of this blog on UI design. From the About page:

Functioning Form is where art and technology emerge as experience, where message and medium meld, and where interactions are useful, usable, and enjoyable. Functioning Form is the interface

Lots of nice reading here for those who design for the screen.

Samba-Web Recent Commits

November 8, 2005

I was doing some reading through a fellow Samba Team member's personal site, doing work for a new "Developer Profile" feature I'm adding to news.samba.org, and I learned I could do this:

I knew our build farm offered the ability to view recent commits per branch. I also knew that you could view by author. I just never thought about using the two features together to show what I've done recently on the Samba website.

LISA '05

November 7, 2005

I'll be giving my "Google-Driven Web Development" tutorial at LISA in San Diego on Monday, December 5. The conference has some great tutorials and sessions lined up. From the conference announcement: Join us in San Diego for the 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA'05). The one conference to attend! For close to two decades LISA has been the annual convergence point for the global system and network administration community. This year's LISA continues that tradition of innovation with tools and techniques essential to your professional and technical development. Among the things that caught my attention: * Qi Lu, Yahoo!'s Vice President of Engineering, has a keynote, "Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web" * Mike Ciaverella and Lee Damon on "The Seven Habits of the Highly Effective Sys Admin" * Kevin Bankston's "How Sysadmins Can Protect Free Speech and Privacy on the Electronic Frontier" * Jerry Carter's "Ethereal and the Art of Debugging Networks" See the LISA '05 website for more information.

Usage Rights in Search

November 4, 2005

Saw this piece on Google Blogoscoped. Looks like Google provides an option for filtering results based on "Usage Rights." Options are, "Return results that:"

This looks to be a URL parameter rather than any special syntax. Doing a search for new media fiction with the allow some forms of reuse I noticed the following in the query string:

as_rights=cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute

I'm guessing from the cc that this allows filtering by "Creative Commons" license. This is just a guess, though. I should google it to find out for sure.