http://www.DigitalFriend.org Lists the updates to the DigitalFriend site and the DigitalFriend. en Copyright 2008, Solid Software Pty. Ltd. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) csun'at'DigitalFriend.org (Christine Sun) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:21:05 +1100 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:42:34 +1100 Tools Tools:Agents Humanity:Intelligence Humanity:Intuition Tools:Software Tools:Agents:Rss Tools:Hardware:Robots DigitalFriend V1.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html A brief report on a seminar on Mixed Human-Agent Networks, by Harvard Professor, Barbara Grosz gosh@DigitalFriend.org http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:17:31 +1000 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Depicts the 'Colored Trails' research tool, as a ultimately simplified Dungeon'nDragons game. The item also discussed ways of varying access to different parts of a Knowledge Tree, which is not based on a hierarchical security policy. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:09:09 +1100 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Discusses the use of the DERBY SQL engine embedded in more recent releases of Java. Covers a simple example of converting a single Table application from MySQL to DERBY. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:15:16 +1000 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Report on a participantion in a Think Tank of Thought Leaders, on the future of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), hosted this month by Microsoft in Seville, Spain. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:24:31 +1100 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/month2007-05.html Pickups up on a report that Microsoft plans to add high level Entity Relation (ER) modelling to their Visio product. Visio currently doesn't do ER diagram in the most useful format for user requirement gathering exercises. The item then goes on to discuss modelling and design methods for the orchestration of Web Services into new application, in particular, the TANDEM method. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Fri, 18 May 2007 15:03:54 +1000 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/month2007-05.html Outlines the reasons for the view, that the recently announced JavaFX Script language - a language designed to make the Internet a Rich media experience - is 10 years later than it could and should have been. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Thu, 31 May 2007 12:06:23 +1000 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/month2007-04.html About the new SunSPOT sensor technology fro SUN Microsystems, which is highly programmable (in Java) and about the size of a matchbox. Comments come after a seminar at the University of Melbourne by Cristina Cifuentes, a researcher at SunLabs now based at the University of Queensland as an Adjunct Professor. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html Sun, 13 May 2007 11:09:49 +1000 http://www.digitalfriend.org/blog/index.html The DigitalFriend has long had an RSS editor built-in, but we've just given it a new simple feature, thats very useful for bloggers. The feature lets you start a new blog entry via the rss file that reports that there is a new entry to be read. gosh@DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:49:07 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html This item refers to the one below, posted on the 9th June. It details the usage of another very useful option within the DigitalFriend's RSS editor, that allows the automatic insertion of RSS data fields into an existing HTML file of the users choice. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) http://www.DigitalFriend.org/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:38:37 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html This is my reflection or impression of a research seminar given by Michael Papsimeon, about modelling agent-environment interaction, inspired by the concept of Affordance from ecological psychology. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Psychology Affordance Tools:Agents Humanity:Intuition Sat, 7 Jul 2007 15:38:53 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html How do we reconcile understanding through observation, with intervention through design? ... The Program Manager for ACID Smart Living, outlines their goals. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Methodology Humanity:Intelligence Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:22:20 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html On hearing today of Kevin Sheedy getting the chop at Essendon Football Club after 27 years as The Coach, I'm going to venture a very rare Religious-oriented blog-entry today! gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Guidance:Religion Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:48:52 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html An option has been added to the RSS Editor within the DigitalFriend that uses the FUN interface of the Knowledge Tree, to 'tag' an entry with keywords. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Agents:Rss Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:00:15 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/month2007-08.html I have this feeling that we're in for a big change in the way we write applications. Its like the feeling that was in the air before the www burst on the scene and changed the way that we all use computers. There is a certain buzz in the air, a certain disquiet amongst developers. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Software World:Internet Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:12:31 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html There are things that XML shines at and things that SQL shines at but often they are different things. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:37:09 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html SQL+PaWS - a simple technology that allows SQL databases and people to become Web Services. The data delivery mechanism is a simple two dimensional uniform table in HTML, used to represent sets or a vector of data. SQL+PaWS has two levels of use both of them are easy and flexible: SQL+PaWS is readable by people and is also machine-readable by client-side programs that consume web services. SQL+PaWS is writable either by people with web-page editors following a simple protocol, or via a small piece of code that retrieves data from SQL-oriented database management systems. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Activity:Research:Topic:WebServices Tools:Software:Management:DBMS:SQL Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:45:36 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html Went to the first International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies this week. That 'mundane' word doesn't do justice to the focus of this workshop, as it was anything but mundane. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:09:03 +1100 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html Robin Hunicke (lead game designer at Electronic Arts in the Sims division, also doing a PhD in parallel on video games and AI) was in town for the IE-2007 (Interactive Entertainment) conference this week, and she did a little detour to our ICT building and gave a good talk. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Humanity:Arts:Games Tools:Software:Game Sat, 8 Dec 2007 01:11:24 +1100 http://www.DigitalFriend.org This has been coming for some time (see the April'07 entry). SUN has been shy of relational database systems since the OO mantra in the early 1990's that claimed 'all shall be made object-oriented', but the success of Web 2.0 companies that rose from the ashes of the dot.com crash on the back of RDBMS, has slowly focused SUN on the reality and value of data, particular well-structured data. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Software:Management:DBMS:MySQL Tools:Software:Mashups Tools:Software:Language:OOP:Java Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:13:51 +1100 http://www.DigitalFriend.org Today, the newish Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd less than 100 days into his term in office, in a landmark speech (dubbed the Sorry Speech) said a long overdue Sorry, from the Government of Australia, to the original inhabitants of this vast continent, the Indigenous Australians. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Humanity:Wisdom Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:12:34 +1100 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html To me, the EeePC is what the PDA/handheld genre were always meant to be, but never got close: a fully operational mobile computer. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Hardware Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:05:53 +1100 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Software Wed, 30 June 2008 23:40:08 +1000 http://www.DigitalFriend.org/blog/index.html In 2002 there were zero Robots in homes in the US and zero in the military. By December 2007 there was more than 4,000,000 and more than 5000 in the military. They have been in industry for some time, but get too close to one of those and it will seriously injure you. What has been changing is, who has access to interaction with robots. The robots entering US homes are typically single function, like small floor cleaning robots. gosh'at'DigitalFriend.org (Steve Goschnick) Tools:Hardware:Robots