A space to draw together group discussion about: (1) the appropriate technical platform for the development of Global Sensemaking project; (2) how we enable data to flow between existing tools; and (3) the shape of the tools to come.
Migrating to a new platform based on Scala, I am testing some new ideas on conversation tree navigation. The test site is here. The source code for it is here.
Scala is a language that compiles to Java byte codes; it is built for parallel computation, actors, and other features that make it valuable when the game is scalability.
The navigation experiment is that of a column browser, not unlike the finder in Macintosh. The code is still under rapid evolution, but close to settling down.
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Starting to play with a slightly different UI for structured conversations
by Jack Park
Oct 14, 2011
Migrating to a new platform based on Scala, I am testing some new ideas on conversation tree navigation. The test site is here. The source code for it is here.
Scala is a language that compiles to Java byte codes; it is built for parallel computation, actors, and other features that make it valuable when the game is scalability.
The navigation experiment is that of a column browser, not unlike the finder in Macintosh. The code is still under rapid evolution, but close to settling down.