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Simon is a hands-on software architect who works within Detica's Global Financial Markets group. Simon has been involved in projects ranging from desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures (SOA). His specialist technology is Java and, as a hands-on technical authority, he's called upon to advise and shape solutions; defining, delivering and assuring that the chosen architecture is fit for purpose and meets the non-functional requirements. Simon has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at several conferences and founded Coding the Architecture, providing practical and pragmatic content for hands-on software architects.

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As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the ...
London User Group - June 2008
Here are the details of the June London User Group. Title : Themes from the Software Architect 2008 conference Summary : Join us for a discussion of the themes from the recent Software Architect 2008 conference that took place in early June ...
Software architecture training for £500
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[Coding the Architecture] As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the ...

I want better newsreaders

Let's exploit the metadata

For some of us (not the corporate world though!), newsreaders have become an essential tool for keeping up to date with what's going on in the world. I use a number of newsreaders across a number of platforms and while they're slick, I can't help feeling that they could be better. For example...

Tag clouds : Lots of feeds include information about the categories and tags associated with their news items. Why can't a newsreader show these? Better still, I'd like a tag cloud view based upon my unread news items so that I can drill in to the specific topics that I'm interested in immediately.
Rules : I want to be able to set up rules so that I can rank my unread news items. For example, I'd like to assign a low ranking to news items that aren't in English, or those that mention a specific keyword (e.g. tool, technology or API) that I'm not interested in.

Newsfeeds contain metadata - we could exploit this for a much better user experience. Any takers? ;-)

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Posted by Simon Brown on 11 January 2007 22:33:00 GMT #

Re: I want better newsreaders

Comment from Mark on 12 January 2007 14:51:08 GMT #

back durig the blojsom 2 dev cycle (I dont work on it anymore) I put together something I called limber that tried to acomplish the same goals. I filtered feeds based on language, keywords, and even classification. I also started (before I shelved it) a feature that if friends were using it, it would make things important for me that they found important. As an example if dave was reading a blog that I didnt have but it talked abut blojsom, it would get propigated to me.

I think I still have that code lying around

Re: I want better newsreaders

Comment from Simon Brown on 26 January 2007 14:43:13 GMT #

That sounds very cool indeed and I think that the friends/recommendation feature would be especially powerful inside a corporate environment. You not thought of doing anything with this?

Re: I want better newsreaders

Comment from Anonymous on 22 January 2007 09:26:46 GMT #

I want better Newsreaders as well . and I would love to use code that someone still has lying around. :)
Do post details or add that to RSSOwl straight away. We Java users will love you. :)

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Re: I want better newsreaders Comment from Anonymous on 04 July 2008 18:33:05 BST #
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