Thank you , Henry.
Your comments are always of great interest and value to me.
When I compare and contrast jpOHS to Doug's writing at
http://www.bootstrap.org/a2h/B1/2120.html , I note that Doug's early
interest lies in the direction of getting HyperScope up and running first.
That's the engine that would include a grove engine and link database, not
unlike BrowseUp, which, as I have said before, appears to be a well-made
instance of this class of Web tool.
Well, I'm really on a slightly different vector, one that I hope will
ultimately intersect with HyperScope. The direction I am going lies in
content production, not in content browsing. I am of the opinion, and I
think my opinion is clear in my earlier post, that no matter what vector you
are motoring along, there will ultimately be some kind of API that is the
glue that binds all vectors. My experiments with jpOHS continue to show me
just how weak my ability to visualize implementations really is. That's why
I jump off bridges and build implementations.
For instance, my latest jpOHS paper, at
http://www.thinkalong.com/ohs/jpOHS.pdf tells the story that I ran into all
sorts of problems when attempting to combine both synchronous (blocking)
transfers and asynchronous (non-blocking) transfers. Over this weekend, the
April Java-Pro came with a paper on using SOAP to solve the very problem I
was facing. That program wanted me to boot Tomcat, the servlet engine.
Well, guess what? Darned if good old uncle Bill hasn't tossed yet another
mess out there for me and others to solve: Windows ME loves to tell me it's
out of environment space when setting classpath variables in the batch file
that runs just fine on NT4 and 2000. You gotta love jerks that continually
toss barriers into the path of java hackers.
What came out of that? Simple. Find some way to do SOAP-like things
without running SOAP. I think I'll have that running sometime next week.
Jack
From: Henry van Eyken <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>
> Further to my previous reply:
>
> 1. The reason that precipitated my emphasis on the correlation with
Bloom's
> Taxonomy is that Jack's jpOHS is being readied for application in an
educational
> setting. But, please, bear in mind that I am not a member of a faculty of
> education, merely a retired teacher. It might be useful to have contact
with
> appropriate academics at Stanford U., for example.
>
> 2. Jack writes, "Let us assume that my view of the improvement cycles
somehow
> coincides with those already expressed by Douglas Engelbart. On that
> assumption, I shall take this a bit further." A few words of "compare and
> contrast" might well be helpful to a number of us.
>
> 3. I believe we must keep in mind that many pressing world-scale problems
are
> not entirely in the cognitive domain. Examples: heigtened discrimination
in
> times of economic distress and economic selfishness. Ecological, social
and
> economic problems, it has been claimed, are strongly interconnected
> ("econology"). In accord herewith the human cognitive and affective
domains are
> interconnected. But augmentation, as I understand it, is not perceived as
> directly addressing the affect. Something to bear in mind.
>
> Henry
>
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