IRC log for #dvn, 2013-01-08

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Time	Nick	Message
14:18		pdurbin joined #dvn
15:34	pdurbin	this looks helpful: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/git.html
16:32	pdurbin	in a meeting talking about design of the dvn
16:33	pdurbin	looking at the design of other sites, such as http://datamarket.com
16:34	pdurbin	http://hollis.harvard.edu
16:34	pdurbin	http://bibsoup.net
16:36	pdurbin	the term "faceting" is being used. seems to refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search
16:37	pdurbin	more examples: http://buzzdata.com http://www.freebase.com
16:43	pdurbin	http://worldmap.harvard.edu
16:47	pdurbin	http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/search
16:53	pdurbin	http://figshare.com
16:56	pdurbin	talking about tool tips, how they're nice for terms that may not be familiar to people, such as "dataverse"
16:57	pdurbin	in these IRC logs, terms like HTML get a tool tip when you hover your mouse over them
16:58	pdurbin	interestingly, in firefox "IRC" and "HTML" above have a tiny underline under them but I don't see any visual indication that there's a tool tip in Chrome or Safari
17:09	pdurbin	talking about how we like the spotify search, which is is a lot like spotlight on the mac in that it groups search results
17:33	pdurbin	we're talking about the idea of having an icon to represent a dataverse, which reminds me of how github has a symbol for a public repo, one for a private repo, one for a repo that has been forked. they're called octicons: https://github.com/blog/1106-say-hello-to-octicons
17:34	pdurbin	that blog posts says "Designing the Visual Language"
17:53	pdurbin	talking about icefaces and ThemeRoller: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Theming/Themeroller
17:54	pdurbin	mention of flask: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flask_(programming)
17:55	pdurbin	i think we all agree we like clean design
17:57	pdurbin	mention of OpenURL ContextObject in SPAN (COinS) - http://ocoins.info

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