Wednesday May 04, 2005

I was starting to look around for a client side blog editor. I was getting tired of typing html tags all of the time. It seemed that all of the really cool client side blog editors required a Mac. Well, that wouldn't do for me. But today I found out that BlogEd has received a major facelift. I'm using it right now to create this entry. I can do all the formatting tricks such as:
  1. Create a numbered list
  2. Put things in bold
  3. Put things in italics and color
  4. I can easily put in things like the JavaTM platform with superscripts

bblfish is responsible for getting it to work with roller. Thanks Much!

 

For the Search Inside the Music Demo, I wanted to be able to visualize the music space by showing a plot of the music space. I looked at a number of charting packages for Java and settled on JFreeChart. JFreeChart is a free (LGPL) chart library that supports a large number of chart types from pies, bars, lines and scatter plots. The JFreeChart API is quite flexible. I was able to easily wrap my code around a JFreeChart to make the charts interactive. Here's an example of a visualization of the music space that shows a musical journey from one style of music to another. All using JfreeChart:

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