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• Introducing Bracky

  I've been talking a lot about UI agents lately and how I'm currently prototyping some UI agent stuff for web applications. Today I'd like to introduce Bracky: Bracky is currently reading up on regular expressions so that he can offer help over on RegExLib... Posted Apr 06 2005, 06:46 AM by digory with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Information Bridge Resources and FAQ

  Over the next couple of months I'm planning to get out to each of the User Groups in Australia and New Zealand to discuss the Information Bridge Framework (IBF). I'm going to use this post to link to some resources and to provide an overview of what IBF... Posted Apr 04 2005, 10:34 AM by digory with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Smart UI agents and inductive UI

  Continuing on from my blog entries last week about automated UI agents, I've started building a small prototype which will hopefully lead to an actual implementation. In my prototype I have several agents accessing shared context through which they have... Posted Apr 01 2005, 02:04 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Autonomous Interface Agents

  Web applications that are context aware will be able to make greater use of autonomous agents to directly manipulate graphical objects and affect the users display. The MIT paper titled "Autonomous Interface Agents" says of autonomous agents: An autonomous... Posted Mar 27 2005, 12:19 PM by digory with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Out of context - how to know whether Tweety can fly

  In the excellent whitepaper titled "Out of context: Computer systems that adapt to, and learn from, context", there's a section nearing the end titled: "The view of context from other fields" - containing the following subsections: Mathematical and formal... Posted Mar 25 2005, 10:53 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Coaching end-users

  Today I had a conversation with a friend who is a musician. We were discussing some of the similarities between music and software and even extending many of them to any creative pursuit where the output is consumed by others. One of the things that we... Posted Mar 25 2005, 10:19 PM by digory with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Grokking Information technology

  My days of using handcrafted Access database applications to automate inventory reconcilliation seems to be nothing but a distant blur. Too soon it seems that I was whisked away from my accounting world of Office applications and surrounded by millions... Posted Mar 24 2005, 09:32 PM by digory with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Day 4: 3 subscriptions

  Three additions today, bringing my tally for the week up to 9 (including one which I made up). This is well short of a budgetted quota of 5 per day which means that I'm falling behind already. Anyhow... todays additions are: Xander Sherry - Xanderland... Posted Mar 09 2005, 08:37 PM by digory with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Day 3: added only 1 subscription

  Just one subscription today as the submissions seem to be drying up... Brad Abrams weblog Hi Darren, Brad here, just wanted to drop my USP in for you to take a look at: My Blog is a blog for folks who write code targeting the .NET Framework and are not... Posted Mar 08 2005, 08:35 PM by digory with | with no comments Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration

• Information Bridge

  Next week I'm giving a demo on IBF (Information Bridge Framework). The IBF allows users to leverage some existing Office technologies - namely, the Research Task Pane and SmartTags - to perform interactions with line-of-business data. A SmartTag scenario... Posted Mar 08 2005, 06:25 PM by digory with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Knowledge and Collaboration