November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 9m
English
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Hack #100. Remember Everything You Read
Create a personal command line for the Web.
This hack holds a special place in my heart. It is everything I have always wanted a browser to be: a personal command line for the Web: my Web.
Firefox keeps track of pages you visit, and you can revisit them later by browsing the History window. But the Web I use is so much more than just URLs and page titles. I browse weblogs that syndicate their content through RSS and Atom feeds. I visit personal home pages of people that have FOAF files. (FOAF stands for Friend of a Friend and is an RDF vocabulary for expressing personal information and relationships.) I read articles that the author has taken the time to tag or categorize with keywords.
My Web is full of metadata. And this metadata is more memorable to me than a URL. If I read an article on Monday morning about a cool CSS hack or an upcoming conference, by Wednesday afternoon, I've long since closed the window and forgotten where I read it or what it was titled. I remember that the author tagged it with css or oreilly or syndication, but that's it. What can I do?
This hack is with me everywhere I go. As I'm reading, it is quietly collecting all the metadata it can find: title, URL, referrer, tags and keywords, RSS and Atom feeds, and FOAF files. On Wednesday afternoon, when I want to find that one specific article again, I can press a hotkey and bring up Magic Line: my personal command line. I type a few letters, and Magic Line autocompletes ...
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.