Document Management Systems: SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) Back in March, I began evaluating some open source Document Management Systems (DMS) to help compliment my wiki-based Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM). That’s a little bit of acronym-overload. But, in simple terms I really am looking for a way to easily store, categorize, and retrieve a number of my documents related to research and learning (PDFs, Word Docs, etc). I quickly discovered that although my wiki can manage attaching simple documents, there was no way to easily store metadata for the documents or search within the wiki itself. As I alluded to in my original post, I narrowed down my search to 3 main DMS choices: SCAN, Alfresco, and Knowledge Tree. At a high-level, SCAN supports the following features: A full list of features can be found here. For the most part, SCAN ended up being my “Killer App” for Document Management Systems. For the short-term I’ve simply configured my wiki to display my document repository so I can download documents as needed.
DeepaMehta -- Homepage Clusty Cloud Creator 15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management Since I started my quest a few years ago searching for the ultimate knowledge management tool, I’ve discovered a number of interesting applications that help people efficiently organize information. There certainly is no shortage of solutions for this problem domain. Many tools exist that offer the ability to discover, save, organize, search, and retrieve information. However, I’ve noticed a trend in recent years, and some newer applications are focusing more on the visual representation and relationship of knowledge. I believe this is in part due to the wider adoption of mind mapping (and concept mapping), and leveraging concepts and advances in the semantic web community. Most traditional personal knowledge management (PKM) or personal information management (PIM) applications offer the same basic set of features: These are essential features, however don’t offer too much to the more visually-inclined knowledge junkies. 15. 14. 13. 12. eyePlorer 11. Pages: 1 2 3
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? The VI Gang Sign by Jon Beltran de Heredia, May 16th, 2007 Yes, even if you can't believe it, there are a lot fans of the 30-years-old vi editor (or its more recent, just-15-years-old, best clone & great improvement, vim). No, they are not dinosaurs who don't want to catch up with the times - the community of vi users just keeps growing: myself, I only got started 2 years ago (after over 10 years of being a professional programmer). Friends of mine are converting today. Heck, most vi users were not even born when vi was written! Yes, there are definite reasons why the vi/vim editing model is just superior to any other out there. Misconception #1: modal editing The first time you stumble into vi or vim, you are shocked and disgusted that you have to use 'i' to start typing text. Turns out, this is just a completely wrong way to use vi or vim. Let me explain the philosophy behind this. And now we come to insert commands. Example #1: the wonderful dot command Let's see a concrete example.
Search less, understand more - Evri 100 Apps for Taking Notes on Your iPhone Note-taking applications are some of the hottest items on the App Store. More and more these utilities make it easy to record data in a fast and convenient way and the fact that this information lives on our phones means that we can access it anytime we need it. The 100 apps below will help you accomplish all your iPhone note-taking endeavors. Whether you want to collect random bits of information, remember something about a specific place or even record some thoughts about your favorite wine, we’ve got you covered. There’s even a section containing our favorite apps so you can get a good idea of where to start! Our Favorites Evernote – Free: Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. Simplenote – Free: People are using Simplenote to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Simplenote Nebulous Notes Handwriting Handwriting – Free: From the makers of the bestselling iPad app “Penultimate”.
Faster PHP Apps—Profile Your Code with Xdebug Object-oriented programming is well and truly in fashion, and PHP is no exception. So you’ve adopted the proper design patterns, built your site on the latest PHP framework, and have your database access abstracted so far that you’ve forgotten SQL. What’s Going On? When you first move towards object-oriented programming, the first thing you might notice is that you can give yourself a headache trying to follow the execution path through your code and the framework it’s built on. The next thing you might notice is that your site isn’t any faster – in fact perhaps it’s slower than it was. So we’ve got potentially slower code, and we can no longer just open up our simple PHP script and follow its execution from the top of the file to the bottom. Xdebug Xdebug 2 (currently beta – I’m running 2.0.0RC3) is an indispensable PHP extension which provides various ways of debugging and analysing your code on your development server. WinCacheGrind KCachegrind Less Grinding, More Caching More Xdebug
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Best Free Notes Organizer Introduction In today's electronic world, it can be quite a challenge to organize all useful information such as web clips, articles, bits of text, images, interesting web links, bookmarks, shopping lists, to-do lists, recipes, tips and many others that are hanging around your PC. It seems to be a common easy task but a difficult one to sort out as the information is so disparate. Some folks have tried to get it organized by using free form databases while others use beefed up text editors or multi-media snippet managers. For notes organizers featuring a tree-like structure, see Best Free Outliner, and for sticky notes, try Best Free Sticky Notes Utility. Rated Products Evernote An excellent solution to manage notes and snippets of information across multiple platforms Our Rating: License: Free (Limited features)Platforms/Download: [field_blackberry_download] | Blackberry | iOS | Mac OS | Web App | Windows (App) | Windows (Desktop) | Version reviewed: n/aGizmos FreewareSummary: Read more...
wiki: Scite Macro Expander SciTE Macro expansion facility I always enjoyed the C preprocessor macro facility. To my eye, this macro makes C code more readable and less error-prone: #define FOR(i,n) for(i = 0; i < (n); i++) Unfortunately, disciplined use of statement macros fell into disfavour due to abuse, and C++ stylists are generally against them (Stroustrup as usual takes a more pragmatic line) The SciTE Lua Macro expansion facility is a simple macro preprocessor which expands macros in the current buffer, rather like abbreviations. macro.subst.1=for(i,n)=for(i = 0; i < n; i++) and type FOR(k,10) in the buffer, followed by 'Expand Macro' (Alt+Enter). Since it's a single-pass expansion which never happens automatically, there's no problem in using keywords like 'for' here. Line feeds are indicated using '\n' in the macro definition and you can always use a backslash to split the definition over several lines. macro.subst.2=if(cond)=if(cond) { \n } else { \n } macro.subst.3=date=$eval(os.date()) Setting up Examples where