Outer Web Thought Log: Things far more interesting than blogging

May 31, 2005

Things far more interesting than blogging

Going to Amsterdam (XTech) and attend only half the conference you're presenting on because you end up scouting conference locations with a local friend.
Being angry at the kitchen timer during the over/under-organized open source CMS debate at Gilbane: there's so much more that I want to explain people!
Sitting with the homeless at the Dam square, watching life going by. Talking about differences in the social wellfare system between Belgium and Netherlands.
Going home and finding the IT journal I've been interviewed in: wow, that picture is big.
Gleaming with joy when Bruno shows me a first version of the faceted browser in Daisy.
Touring around the Daisy competitors to check their level of RSS support, and being underwhelmed.
Bringing your oldest kid to his first judo training, and seeing him beam with joy after being thrown by his teacher.
Going to the annual school fair with the family:

Posted by stevenn at May 31, 2005 09:20 AM (en)

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Now the cool thing would be to blog about these things in real time.

/me ducks ;-)

Posted by: Bertrand Delacretaz at May 31, 2005 11:53 AM

Not sure you consider Drupal a competitor, but I hope you are not "underwhelmed" with Drupal's RSS support. It's quite extensive.

Posted by: Dries at May 31, 2005 01:07 PM

Not at all, Dries. I was aiming at Confluence, mainly. I'm relieved knowing that Drupal is PHP-based, and we are Java-based. ;)

Posted by: Steven Noels at May 31, 2005 01:09 PM

I realize that PHP-based solutions are often frowned upon by Java or Python developers. After all, I'm a Java guy myself. However, I strongly believe one can make solid PHP applications that outperform many Java-based ones. :)

Posted by: Dries at May 31, 2005 03:08 PM

I'm not frowning: just happy that Drupal is not Java-based otherwise Daisy wouldn't have much of a chance to make a difference. I have great respect for Drupal, as it's seems decently architected rather than organically thrown together as with many "CMS tools" in the LAMP space.

The main reason why people now pick Daisy in favor of other systems out there, is our two-tier approach with the ReST-like accessible repository service, and HTTP/XML communication between the back-end and the front-end (wiki) webapp. I've not encountered many Java, let alone PHP-based systems with a similar design.

Posted by: Steven Noels at May 31, 2005 03:48 PM

Mooie foto van het leeuwenmeisje.

Posted by: Pietel at June 6, 2005 05:49 PM