Clarion Folk

This one is so simple to understand. But would get reasonably complicated to implement.

The system (web or desktop, probably both) would take in any kind of file (doc, image, blah blah).

It would then Output to ANYTHING.

What’s the purpose of this? Let’s say you had a bunch of images, but need them in a document. How hard is it to just plonk a bunch of images into Word? Not very. But this is what it would do.

The logic would take the files you give it, examine them, and see if the output file could be a container for those files. If not, then it has some nice practical rules for dealing with things.

Let’s say you give it a Doc, and Excel sheet, and a WMV file. You feed them in. You _can_ tell it what you want back. OR you let it do it’s business.  Which is to give you back a single file with the inputted files in sequence (or however they would be moulded together, based on contextual default rules, or indeed rules of the Users making).

So the DOC and XLS and WMV files would be joined in beautiful unison into ..

Well, how would you do it?

Stats. Reports. Most people deal with stats in their daily lives. Even folk who never go near a computer.

This system would take in feeds (you could kick off with just XML), and intelligently work out patterns based on the input.

There would be four parts, that I can see.

1. The Parsing of the Feeds (the different types of file structures)
2. The Rules Interface
3. The Interpretation of the Rules / Calculation of Results / Pattern Recognition
4. The Reporting of Results (Bling Graphs and wotnot)

There are so many sub-systems you could build around this. Contextually refined for various tasks. But this one would be generic. Meant for the masses.

The Skype CW-Talk Chat has seen a lot of people joining over the last few weeks. It’s quite exciting .. and kind of a new feeling. But Awesome all the way.

So kudos to everyone who is bringing in new folk! Huzah!

Here we go. The best of what I’ve got. The video I took will be coming soon.

Photos Page

I don’t really like the Wordpress Gallery thing. Compared with doing it myself. Lightbox doesn’t really work with it. I might redo the Photo page again sometime.

Windows Live Writer mixed with Lightbox does a better job in my opinion. But then I’m tired and biased.