What is Network Based Integration?

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Network Based Integration referes to the way in which software is developed and in relation to the way the developed software meets the needs of the system.
The architecture of the software being developed must be designed to conform to those needs, not the other way around. It is this software design that currently is debated particularly in relation to the development of Open-Source software and
other types.
I came across an article which covered this topic, and commented on the classification of software architecture design styles. The article comments on whats is described as Network Based Integration :::
Chapter 2 – Network-based Application Vs. Distributed based: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_app_arch.htm
Chapter 3 – Network-based Architectural Styles: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_arch_styles.htm

The future cyber wars

In Archive by Fredy Ore

An interesting article in CNN.com on future cyber wars that will develop as technology advances. The article covered the topic of misleading information, the internet and information overload.

“Warfare is less and less about pushing men and machines around the battlefield and more and more about pushing electrons and photons,” said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia.

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PNG & CSS power at Youngpup.net

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I revisit Youngpup.net looking for some mega cool use of Styles and I came across some interesting articles on PNG ::: http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/snippets/sleight.xml
PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics and is an extensible file format for lossless, portable, well-compressed raster images. PNG is a patents free replacement to GIF. It has an optional alpha channel for transparency and its sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits per component (up to 48bit images for RGB, or 64bit for RGBA).
On a more historical point, PNG began in New Year’s Day 1995 when Unisys and CompuServe suddenly announced that programs implementing GIF would require royalties, because of Unisys’ patent on the LZW compression method used in GIF.
::: http://www.youngpup.net for a historical walkthrough of the PNG format visit Greg Roelofs The Story of PNG.

Selling Information Architecture

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A really useful and interesting article in Digital Web Magazine which comments on the task of selling user-centred IA.

The problem with ?selling information architecture? is that too often it is assumed that people want Web sites, or that people want wireframes, or a content matrix, or a taxonomy. People don?t want any of these things, even though they say that they want them or might think that they need them.

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What is RSS 2.0? and how it works

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Dave Winer has a great post on RSS and also detailed info on the workings behind it, the elements tags it uses and also a roadmap of extending RSS.
The page also has some useful links to Validators, How to’s, Utilities, Modules and also shared code.
RSS is the acronym for Really Simple Syndication. ::: http://backend.userland.com/rss