DeeKnow’s Grotto

Gartner Research for April 2002 - have knocked out the usual index of web-related publications in the latest research from Gartner. Includes a couple of articles on Search technology, web services, mobile technology, and a roundup of web development and authoring software.

4:33:54 PM  

Law are now using WaikCookie on Obelix for course material. The folder currently only requires a valid authticated user. Jamie has modded the module to not redirect back to port 80, which although isnt technically a problem, I bet socially it would have been :-)

Will let the dust settle for a few days then knock out an email to the key web admins around campus who host stuff on Obelix that is currenty restricted using IP address or cheap authentication methods

2:02:53 PM  

xpath command line tool that was installed with the XML::XPath perl module on both machines, makes learning XPath a cinch and debugging scripts a lot easier. You can call it from a shell with the 1st paramater of XML source, and the 2nd the query you want to run against it. e.g..

xpath temp.xml "/linkreport/pages/page[last()]"

12:00:33 PM  

A Content Management System feature list is mentioned in a thread on the CMS-List this week talking about selection criteria for CMS. It's a comprehensive list of possible features and considerations and was part of a handout at a workshop held at the University of Bath

10:38:59 AM