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Tuesday, December 19 2000

John Roth : "Whenever Canada loses one of its talented people there should be an exit interview.

We should find out why our talent leaves and what needs to be done. If exit interviews work for industry, they can also work for a country. I don't think Ottawa fully realizes the extent to which Canada's talent is under attack. The fact is we have already lost too many of Canada's brightest across many industry sectors, especially high-tech. We have suffered the loss of almost an entire generation. We'll miss their creativity, their leadership, the job opportunities their triumphs would have created for countless other Canadians, and the wealth they could have created for other Canadians." It always warms my heart to see people championing nationalism and the end of the nation-state in the same breath. An exit interview?

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Dan Ancona : Information Architecture Markup Language 1.0a

"The IA of the IAML is, at this point, a bit of a stretch. it's based on the hypothesis that the process of information architecture is, in some way, a process of locating information in space, whether the end user experiences it as such or not. i realize that this is a) altogether unproven (but, i hope, interesting) and that b) i'm overloading the phrase "information architecture" here a bit. i hope the interestingness of work along these lines precludes my hubris in doing so."

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Rich Robinson : DigitaScript, A Scripting Language for Digital Cameras

"Although DigitaScript can set simple camera parameters such as shutter speed and flash settings, it can also manage databases of information, tell photographers which picture to take next, build web pages, extend the user interface, and communicate with external devices such as barcode readers. It does this with simple text files that are no more difficult to understand than HTML. And it does everything right inside the camera."

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Andy Wardley : Building and Managing Web Sites with the Template Toolkit

"These demonstrate the construction of both static and dynamic HTML pages using the standard toolkit utilities, custom CGI scripts and Apache/mod_perl handlers. The use of standard plugin modules is included to demonstrate integration with CGI [ 2 ], XML [ 3 ] and DBI [ 4 ], and methods for extending the Template Toolkit by binding to external data and user-defined code are also covered." mmmm... re-writes.

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Just for kicks, I rendered the SOD (sic) feed as DHTML outline.

While I was busy enjoying the simple pleasure of opening and closing the folders, it occured to me that it would be pretty simple to write a Zope ODB "tree" to FolderTree script. That way you wouldn't haven't to worry about the dtml-tree tag wigging out when the cookie [it] sets to figure out who's on first is longer than the cookie spec allows for. Interesting...

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