Jahr: 2003

csszengarden.com is next to incredible – I wouldn’t have thought that CSS is so powerful! „There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will…

Roger L. Costello: „Here are the characteristics of REST: Client-Server: a pull-based interaction style: consuming components pull representations. Stateless: each request from client to server must contain all the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server. Cache: to improve network efficiency responses must be capable…

Richard P. Gabriel: „The concept known as “worse is better” holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed. Christopher Alexander might call this “piecemeal growth.” This is the story of the evolution of that concept.“

Our Australian photo sales website project is now online: fairfaxphotos.com – shop there for great pictures by Australian photographers. It’s running on Linux/Apache/Oracle/PHP and based on our Digital Collections DC4 system for storage and retrieval. (I did most of the PHP programming…) The launch party started at 2:30 am German time…

Jon Udell: „When you need to store and display a modest amount of structured or semistructured data, it’s tempting to store it directly in an HTML file. I’ve used this strategy many times; undoubtedly you have too. The advantages and disadvantages of working directly with a presentation format are pretty clear. It’s handy that the…

„TikiWiki is an open source web application which provides a full Wiki environment, as well as Articles, Sections, User/Group Management (including optinal LDAP interaction), Polls and Quizzes, File and Image Galleries, Forums, Comments on many areas, Weblogs, and much more.“ (And it’s written in PHP.)

Daniel H. Steinberg: „The night that divides the two days of tutorials from the three-day conference at the fifth annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention is reserved for the States of the Union addresses. Luminaries from the open source communities of Perl, Python, PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux each spoke for just under a half hour…

A native MacOS Wiki: „VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It’s like having your own personal hypertext library, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists… Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will…

Google News – finally. Seems to be just what I’ve been waiting for.

OpenGroupware.org’s mission: „To create, as a community, the leading open source groupware server to integrate with the leading open source office suite products and all the leading groupware clients running across all major platforms, and to provide access to all functionality and data through open XML-based interfaces and APIs.“ It’s a formerly commercial software (SKYRIX)…