On My Wish List (USB Keys, bootable and other fancy uses)

Clive Wright has written about uses of USB Keys in his column "The Edge" in The Age on 11-Oct-2005. To quote:-

Perhaps the most useful thing you can do with a 256MB USB key is to use it as the next generation Windows XP rescue platform.

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As we were writing this, we read a story about the music industry beginning to look at USB drives as a medium for selling album collections. They're clearly following the lead of Magnatune.

JSR 283: Content Repository for JavaTM Technology API Version 2.0

"JSR 283: Content Repository for JavaTM Technology API Version 2.0" in "The Java Community Process(SM) Program" on 19-Sep-2005. To quote:-

Since this JSR represents an enhancement of JSR-170, the same general goals apply to this JSR as to JSR-170 (from the JSR-170 proposal):

The aim is to produce a content repository API that provides an implementation independent way to access content bi-directionally on a granular level. A content repository is a high-level information management system that is a superset of traditional data repositories. A content repository implements ?content services? such as: author based versioning, full textual searching, fine grained access control, content categorization and content event monitoring. It is these ?content services? that differentiate a content repository from a data repository. Many of today?s (web) applications interact with content repositories in various ways. This API proposes that content repositories have a dedicated, standard way of interaction with applications that deal with content. This API will focus on transactional read/write access, binary content (stream operations), textual content, full-text searching, filtering, observation, versioning, handling of hard and soft structured content.

The Future of Web Design is Content Management

Martin Lemieux has written about "The Future of Web Design is Content Management" in on WebProNews.com. To quote:-

This is somewhat of a call out to all web design companies. If you cannot offer content management to your clients, you may be left in the dust within a few years. The more affordable content management becomes, the more in demand it will be. Without giving your prospects this crucial option, you may lose a great chunk of your potential clients to the next web design company that has a fully automated system that states: "all the consumer has to do is login and get started."

Beans Means XML

DJ Walker-Morgan has written about "Beans Means XML" in "Builder-AU" on 31-Aug-2005. To quote:-

You can read and manipulate XML documents in Java much easier by using XmlBeans. We show you how to get started.

Effective usability inspection techniques

Joanna Bawa has written about Useability Inspection Techniques in Builder-AU on 10 August 2005. To quote:-

Two of the most popular belong to a set of techniques called Usability Inspection methods, and are known as

• Thinking Aloud and
• Cognitive Walkthrough