Took my concordance of the bibliography and changed it to include the source of the search in the search request. Then fixed the CGI to handle the QUERY-STRING correctly. Just like plumbing! It is easy to reassemble a complex assembly (like a shower control) incorrectly so that the "Hot" is cold and the "Cold" is hot.
Wed Jun 25 16:52:05 PDT 2003 New Items
Added items to my bibliography of software
development:
[ newb0625.html ]
including one on team organization from the 1960!
Wed Jun 18 09:54:50 PDT 2003 Scrolling considered Harmful
Another obvious in hindsight insight: People do <strong>not</strong> like scrolling. They prefer clicking. It is a matter of hand movements I guess.
Action plan: reduce pages and distribute content over more smaller pages
Sun Jun 15 12:10:49 PDT 2003 Grading
Grading, working of grants and papers.... .
Uploaded
[ newb0615.html ]
the latest batch of bibliographic items while waiting for the Commencement
ceremony.
Starting to think about my Summer Project having got a Stipend...
Tue Jun 10 19:37:15 PDT 2003 BODMAS
Long break with few changes. Then I got a comment
saying that searching for BODMAS was not helpful because
it was not found. So I added a quick definition at
[ BODMAS in notn_12_Expressions ]
4 June 2003 New Items
Added items to my bibliography of software
development:
[ newb0604.html ]
June 2nd 2003 Seminar on Structured Inheritance
Presented seminar "Structured Inheritance Relations"
[ 2003 in index ]
June 1 2003 New Symphony Program
Posted the new program for the
75th Anniversary Season of the Inland Empire Symphony Orchestra.
[ symphony.html ]
May 2003 Published Review
Published review 0305-0466 in Computer Reviews(CR)of paper "Improving the
scalability of the CORBA event service...." from Software - Practice and
Experience.
Tue May 20 New Items
Added items to my bibliography of software
development:
[ newb0520.html ]
Refactored C++ and UML. Now wondering how to search for CASE without retrieving CaSE-STUDY. Or may just need to have some non automatic subject entries.
Fri May 16 08:51:42 PDT 2003 Eveidential Quality of Items
Refactored down to the C language in
subjects
and in the process started to split the quality tags I've lateley
been
adding to items from the subject items. The quality tags
indicates the evidence provided: does the item include a demonstration,
an anecdote, some empirical analysis, an experiemnt, etc. or is it just an
advertisement or new (partly baked?) idea?
Perhaps I should split them into two pages. The subject index is way too big! Or I might list the quality tags but not preprogram searches for them. What do you think [ comment.html ] ?
Thu May 15 12:25:44 PDT 2003 Started Refactoring subjects
I'm using this page to record my activities developing and
refactoring my web site. Today I was hit with over 3000
requests for items in my bibliography. Some of these were
in error and they clearly were coming from a page in my site.
A bit of digging discovered them in a page generated from an
old old HyperCard stack. So I
started working on it. Ultimately I decided to remove nearly all
the direct request for bibliographic items and insert a
call to the "lookup" search engine. At least this way
recent items would be listed. The page would also be shorter.
I also fixed the 'bib' CGI to remove spaces and ampersands form item names thus mapping the pre-1996 format to the current one.
Time for lunch...
A Key Insight
People don't want to fill in a form to search for information.
They want to click a link and get the search done.
Evidence: Nearly all the hits on my bibliography
are coming from links rather than forms.
This is not new: "Don't Make Me Think" is the title of a book
on WWW page design
[Krug01]
which inspired a previous set of pages.
14 May 2003 New bibliography items
[ newb0514.html ]
13 May 2003 New bibliography items
[ newb0513.html ]
Backfilled Events
April 30th 2003 Faculty Activities Report
A partial Faculty Activities Report for September
2001 to April 2003
[ FAR20030430.htm ]
[ FAR20030430.pdf ]
April 21st 2003 Developing a laboratory page
Experimenting with searching mathematical documentation.
January 2003 Published two reviews
Two reviews CR0301-0062 and CR0301-0108 published in CR
November 12 2002 HOOD
Added
[ HOOD in methods ]
to
my methods page.
July 14-18 2002 Conference in Florida
Presented
my work on stochastic models of debugging:
[ rjb02b.evolve.txt ]
[ rjb02bEvolve.pdf ]
at
[ http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/ ]
in Orlando Florida and chaired my session.
This work developed from
Spring 2002 Stochatic Debugging
[ rjb02a.hack.html ]
September 28 2001 Activities 1996-2001
[ FAR2001.html ]
Glossary and Links
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