http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/10/04/google-gadgets-mashups/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:49:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/10/04/google-gadgets-mashups/#comment-2824 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » widgets all over the place! Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:54:08 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=385#comment-2824 [...] while I tend to find most widget-engines quite generic and similar in featuresets, SpringWidgets is unique in several ways: while competing platforms run their widgets either on the local desktop (f.e. Yahoo! Widgets, ex Konfabulator) or exclusively on the web (f.e. Google Gadgets), SpringWidgets’ code can be executed in both environments. widgets like the RSS-reader on the sidebar of this page, can be easily pulled to the desktop by just clicking the green cog (top-left). the desktop-software SpringBox is currently available for Windows only, with a Mac OS-version to follow soon. SpringWidgets integration with several social networking-sites is even better: widgets can be sent to profile pages on myspace, friendster, hi5 and xanga with a single click. as usual, html-snippets are used to get SpringWidgets on any other webpage (see screenshot below). [...] [...] while I tend to find most widget-engines quite generic and similar in featuresets, SpringWidgets is unique in several ways: while competing platforms run their widgets either on the local desktop (f.e. Yahoo! Widgets, ex Konfabulator) or exclusively on the web (f.e. Google Gadgets), SpringWidgets’ code can be executed in both environments. widgets like the RSS-reader on the sidebar of this page, can be easily pulled to the desktop by just clicking the green cog (top-left). the desktop-software SpringBox is currently available for Windows only, with a Mac OS-version to follow soon. SpringWidgets integration with several social networking-sites is even better: widgets can be sent to profile pages on myspace, friendster, hi5 and xanga with a single click. as usual, html-snippets are used to get SpringWidgets on any other webpage (see screenshot below). [...]

]]> http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/10/04/google-gadgets-mashups/#comment-1818 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » dev: Google Code Search Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:24:35 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=385#comment-1818 [...] looks like Google ain’t going to slow down these days: Code Search - Google’s effort on indexing source-code on the web - was launched earlier today. Code Search offers developers powerful ways (read: regular expressions) to search for code-snippets in any particular language, under any specific license. a quick test-drive unveiled that Code Search suffers from similar problems like established competitors Krugle and Koders: string-based search-results often mistake underlying semantics. when searching for an id3-implementation in PHP, results often lead to external function-calls, but not the actual source implementing id3. still, indexing source-code will definitely help making open source knowledge more accessible to average developers, not able/willing to spend hours/days to dissect code. looking forward on Danny Sullivan’s commentary on Code Search… [...] [...] looks like Google ain’t going to slow down these days: Code Search - Google’s effort on indexing source-code on the web - was launched earlier today. Code Search offers developers powerful ways (read: regular expressions) to search for code-snippets in any particular language, under any specific license. a quick test-drive unveiled that Code Search suffers from similar problems like established competitors Krugle and Koders: string-based search-results often mistake underlying semantics. when searching for an id3-implementation in PHP, results often lead to external function-calls, but not the actual source implementing id3. still, indexing source-code will definitely help making open source knowledge more accessible to average developers, not able/willing to spend hours/days to dissect code. looking forward on Danny Sullivan’s commentary on Code Search… [...]

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