Jahr: 2003

Jakob Nielsen: „Spare your users the misery of being dumped into PDF files without warning. Create special gateway pages that summarize the contents of big documents and guide users gently into the PDF morass.“

Lambda the Ultimate USENIX2003: „We would like to „cd /lib“ and descend into the „directory“ that contains only library files, grouped into subdirectories „root“, „usr“, „local“. We would like to „cd /bin|/sbin“ and get to the root of the „filesystem tree“ that contains only executable files (again, grouped into „subdirectories“). We may even do „cd…

A very nice and personal weblog on using the Tablet PC. What Is New has lots of practical information on Tablet PCs…

Incremental Blogger: „I finally convinced Bryan to play hooky today and see what would happen if he tried to sight-read a fiddle tune off of my NEC LitePad Tablet PC. We downloaded some music in PDF format off the Internet, and tried using a mouse sitting on the floor as a „footswitch“ for turning pages.“

Tim Bray: „At work, we’ve been putting a lot of time into what used to be called ‚Dynamic HTML‘, i.e. making web pages more dynamic and lively with a variety of Javascript techniques. There’s this one design pattern that keeps turning up, and for those who aren’t already JS hacks, it may be worth stealing.…

It suddenly clicks: What I always disliked about XSLT was the idea of having to maintain a complex HTML layout in a rather ugly XML file. PHP embedded in HTML is so much nicer to read than HTML embedded in XSL. But if it’s really possible to keep the HTML file extremely plain and simple…

Krysalis: „Transform XML documents into XHTML with PHP and XSL For a web applications programmer who has to develop complex enterprise level applications, web services or multi language dynamic websites (Content Management Systems), Krysalis is a development platform that improves the Apache/PHP framework by separating the application logic from the presentation layer, using open standards…

Nice pictures from Peder’s home Møllerheimen in Norway…

Sterling Hughes: „I was talking […] with Thies at Linuxtag […] about the difference between a fanclub and a business. Thies pointed out that PHP was no longer a fanclub, but was very much a business…. In the early days of a system, it is a fanclub. You are all happily hacking away. If you…

A List Apart: „Assigning accesskeys to menu items adds “Hot-Key” functions to a website, letting frequent users spend less time less time moving and clicking the mouse. This solution, however, has been largely underused because it almost always fails due to two major flaws. The first problem is that visitors to your website have no…