JWZ on Hula

JWZ's take on the new Hula open source groupware from Novell is great: "So I said, narrow the focus. Your 'use case' should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?"

The answer? Calendaring. I say "Amen."

The Hula guys took it to heart, and the result looks promising.

Aside: What JWZ describes sounds quite a bit like Mosuki, a social software calendaring app that was demoed at CodeCon 2004.

— February 16, 2005

CSS Forms

Here's some links on how to use CSS to lay out forms.

It becomes much easier with the <label> tag which was news to me (I seem to be an HTML 3.0 kind of guy). Works in IE 6, Safari, Mozilla.

Peter-Paul Koch: Tableless forms.

Egor Kloos: CSS Forms can work! and example (includes a <textarea>).

— February 16, 2005

Baby Name Visualization

This baby name popularity visualization is super cool!
— February 16, 2005