- ARCHIVE / March, 2009
- Academic Earth – hours of free lectures online
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. If you can’t go to university and follow lectures there the traditional way, there’s plenty of stuff on this website for you to enlarge your horizons! As more and more high quality educational content becomes available […]
- DB visualize : The Universal Database Tool
I’ve been searching for something similar for along time. Just hook up a database, and et voila you can see it, modify and export it with a clean and fast interface. Among the many (really a lot) features you have: Database Browser: Tree based navigation through all database objects. Browse object details and invoke management […]
- NetNewsWire – Great RSS reader for mac/iphone!
For my online and offline RSS needs I’ve been using Shrook for a while – but since recently I got an iPhone the issue of syncing it with my mac gracefully has become quite important. Shrook does have a complementary iPhone reader, but unfortunately it lacks two important features: 1) it doesn’t remember the history […]
- Faceted Browsing: a conceptual map
UPDATE 8/6/11: I uploaded an improved version of the map Faceted search (navigation, or browsing) is a technique for accessing a collection of information represented using a faceted classification, allowing users to explore by filtering available information. A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be […]
- GAE SQL Designer
GAE SQL designer is a simple app that allows you to Draw E-R designs, Edit tables and rows, Manage keys, Create relations (FK constraints), Save & Load designs and Import DB schemas. Finally – it’s online and it’s free! Check it out at http://gaesql.appspot.com/ (docs).
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
