Friday, December 17, 2004

Gmail Live Bookmark

I'm not sure it's new, but I just noticed that Firefox now displays the Live Bookmarks icon when I view my Gmail inbox. The feature itself is not new - Gmail has had an Atom for a few months - but the link is new (Live Bookmarks are "discovered" through a <link> tag in the html header).
The feed has the list of unread messages in the inbox. Firefox displays only the subjects, but proper feed readers (or feed reader extensions in Firefox) can show the sender's information, as well as a snippet.

UPDATE: If you look for Gmail invites, see my other post.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

XML Tools

Since my project involves XML, I'll need some XML tools. Mainly, a free Windows/Java IDE. Something with XSL and Schema support. Any recommendations?
I've downloaded the Home Edition of XMLSpy, which looks pretty nice, but I was hoping for an open-source tool.

Saturday, December 11, 2004

More Google Suggest

Apparently (and as expected), Google Suggest does not update in real-time. When, for example, you want to see what's the most searched-for Google service (and so you type "google " into the box) - not only the much-hyped Suggest is not in the top 10; when you add "suggest" to your query, you find that people search for "google suggest a site" more than "google suggest"...

I guess the "most wanted" list only gets updated when the index does, because "google suggest" has no matches. In fact, there is no information for that URL.

Site-Flavored Google Search

Google

This search was costumized to my interests.

Google Suggest

Google has released (as a beta, under Google Labs) Google Suggest, which is really cool. You start typing a query, and you get the most popular matching queries in a pseudo-combobox. This is cool, because it allows you to see the most popular searches starting with the letters you typed. So, for example, you know that Firefox is more popular a search than, say, free.

You can also get the most popular RFC documents. The most searched for, as it turns out, is RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets. I know that, because I typed "RFC " (without quotes, with the extra space), and it came first.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Final Project

This year I'm developing a software project for a Hi-Tech company in Israel. The project involves generating C code from UML statecharts.