Archive for October, 2006

HCI @ Google

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

I found out about a talk by Josh Mittelman (HCI Engineer from Google) at Rutgers SCILS building, and talked a couple of coworkers from work into going. Josh covered some bits about Google’s approach to HCI and showed examples from some projects. Things to take away:

Main Google UI metaphor is search results list, STRONG [...]

Portlet Repository Protocol

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Java.net has a project for a Portlet Repository Protocol that would let portals go out and retrieve pre-compiled binary portlets, which could then be installed and offered to users. I’ve thought for a while that portlets could do with Eclipse style add/update, and this seems like it could be promising foundational work to roll and [...]

Playing with food

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Feel like playing with food?

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