Jahr: 2003

Navigating through Techquila’s Topic Map World Topic Map may help one understand what Topic Maps are about…

Werner Vogels: „The lack of understanding that Web services primarily support the document-exchange contract is one of the root causes for many of the misconceptions about them. […] Web services share none of the distributed object systems’ characteristics. They include no notion of objects, object references, factories, or life cycles. Web services do not feature…

Robin ‚Roblimo‘ Miller on NewsForge: „Writing software is fascinating, even somewhat addictive. People in the writing business are familiar with the phenomenon of „compulsive writers“ who write not for money but because that’s what they do. […] The free software movement is full of compulsive programmers.“

„TMAPI hopes to do for topic maps what SAX and DOM did for XML – provide a single common API which all developers can code to and which means that there applications can be moved from one underlying platform to another with minimum fuss.“ And this is what it looks like.

Ethan Cerami: „A major element of web services is planning for when things go wrong, and propagating error messages back to client applications. However, unlike SOAP, REST-based web services do not have a well-defined convention for returning error messages. In fact, after surveying a number of REST-based web services in the wild, there appear to…

Fascinating – Topic Map Inference rules in tolog: „The parent-of rule parent-of($A, $B) :- { parenthood($B : child, $A : mother, $F : father) | parenthood($B : child, $M : mother, $A : father) }. What this rule says is that A is the parent-of B if A is either the mother or father of…

The Oracle Technology Network has a friendly article on PHP: „Remember the heady days of HTML version 1.0 to version 2.0, when mastering a new Web language was as simple as looking at the code behind a Web site? Remember the ease of learning that came with basic HTML? Remember being able to hack out…

David Sklar: PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities John Coggeshall at ONLamp.com: ONLamp.com: PHP Security, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Clancy Malcolm at ONLamp.com: Ten Security Checks for PHP, Part 1, and Part 2. Jordan Dimov at PHPAdvisory.com: On the Security of PHP (Part 1) Quite old: Shaun Clowes‘ A Study…

Babeldoc seems to have a sound concept. Excerpts from their Whitepaper (PDF): „Babeldoc is based around the concept of pipeline processing. Pipeline processing is where an input document is subjected to a linear succession of processing. The document is successively transformed into useful information. Examples of this might be to convert a purchase order document…

SiteMesh sounds like a good idea (found this through PHP-Mesh): „SiteMesh intercepts requests to any static or dynamically generated HTML page requested through the web-server, parses the page, obtains properties and data from the content and generates an appropriate final page with modifications to the original. This is based upon the well-known GangOfFour Decorator design…