Part One of a series on the theory and praxis of parsing and lexical analysis. Here, we cover the basic theory of formal languages and explain the fundamental concept of grammars. My apologies to...
How can we close the perceptional gap that lies between two dimensional maps and the surrounding three dimensional reality? Enkin is a technology aimed at the Google Android platform that...
Personal branding - building online equity through ones own internet identity - has become a prime movement in the recent trend towards renegotiating the conventional relations between employer...
The carpet has been pulled out from under our feet and the new web is a very different place to what we were used to. On Friday morning at Webstock, eager conference goers were subjected to several...
Many of us are still conditioned to think of design frameworks in terms of grid systems, Swiss graphic design, and rigid corporate identity systems. The problems with these are similar to the problems...
So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and...
"Agile" has balkanized, and the individual cults have - in some cases - become religions that are just as bad as the things they intended to replace. But at the outset, the interesting thing about...
Sometime in the next 30 days, the telecoms firms of the world will have reached a new milestone - three billion subscribers. About ten percent of that number are customers who have multiple accounts,...
MQL must be one of the most overused acronyms in todays technology field, including (but definitely not limited to) such specificities as search/analytics, automated trading, and molecular substructure...
And of course, it's not just record companies on the verge of extinction. With Australia Votes, Google is flexing its capability to move into the online media space traditionally dominated by...
It's been a long long time since I've participated in hours and hours of such lively and (mostly) positive discussion. I have to echo Mike's view that Wellington is one of the only places where...
I was supposedly going to be in Auckland this weekend, but things changed. After a fascinating discussion with Callum Strong on the relativity of rates on Thursday, I spontaneously decided...
Treemaps emerged in the mid 90's as a method of visualizing heirachies, and have since been widely used throughout the software design community. But very little work is out there exploring visualizations...
Grant has been doing some great stuff over at Xero, with an account balance view that enables fluid browsing of the time range by adjusting the width of the scroller control. This is a good technique ...
Trapped in the Neue Zealand ghetto region, and can't even fly to Auckland at the moment, let alone San Diego... But I'm keenly interested in a couple of presentations in particular: Firstly,...
Our formal attempts at understanding language tend to be hierachically structured, but when it comes to actually organizing language, it is well known that meaning is relational and constantly fluctuates....
As much as Web 2.0 ideas are about openness and freedom, they indicate an increasing emphasis towards power and heirachy. You can see this directly manifesting in the present situation of Yahoo! swallowing...
➔ First Things First: IA and CSS
➔ Chaitin, Elegant Lisp Programs and The Limits of Mathematics
➔ The Semantic Web is Here : Semantic Web - Many things to many people
➔ XML.com: What Are Topic Maps?
➔ HierarchyVersusFacetsVersusTags
➔ information aesthetics weblog
➔ Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections
➔ Studying Cooperation and Conflict Between Authors with History Flow Visualizations
➔ IBM Research | Navigating a New Kind of Large-Scale Online Discussion
➔ Contentious » The Accidental Communicator
➔ headmap - mapping out spatialised computing
➔ How all human communication fails, except by accident
➔ International standard date and time notation
➔ Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
➔ Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
➔ Jon Udell: Envisioning information
➔ Digital Web Magazine - Web 2.0 for Designers
➔ Boxes and Arrows: Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study
➔ Google Guide: Using Search Operators (Advanced Operators)
➔ Ask E.T.: Sparklines or Wordgraphs--some draft pages from Beautiful Evidence
➔ Boxes and Arrows: The Sociobiology of Information Architecture
➔ A General Objective for Inductive Inference
➔ Bioinformatics, Computational Molecular Biology - Alignment, Strings, Sequences, Trees, Maps
➔ Social Aspects of Information Technology
➔ Restrictive Control and Information Pathologies in Organizations
