Jahr: 2004

A lot of the advantages of Python over Java apply to PHP as well: „A programmer can be significantly more productive in Python than in Java. How much more productive? The most widely accepted estimate is 5-10 times. On the basis of my own personal experience with the two languages, I agree with this estimate.…

At ONLamp.com, Robert Jones has lots of good advice for Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems: „Don’t get me wrong, disaster recovery is a critical issue. It’s just that it can be a very painful process for those of us who come from an informal development background. […] I know I’m not the only…

Tim Bray on Web Services Theory and Practice: „I think somebody needs to stand up and start waving a flag that’s labeled ‚WS-Simplification‘ or ‚Real Web Services’ or something, that’s all about building applications with what’s here today and what works today: XML, HTTP, URIs, SOAP, WSDL, and that’s about it. People who need solutions…

Jon Udell on Radical software customization: „We can all agree that software must be customizable. But when programmers alone decide how users can do things, you often end up with a scenario like Aunt Tillie’s OS X adventure: a dashboard packed with incomprehensible dials and knobs. If the dashboard was built with a dynamic language,…

Looks like a great resource: The Aggregated Proceedings from the Extreme Markup Languages conferences.

Andy Lester – The pen is mightier than the laser: „In the World Of Business, there’s no reason to bow down to the God Of Laser Printing […]. Pen and paper works on the small scale, too. Extreme Programming uses the concept of the „story card“, a 3″x5″ handwritten index card that shows high-level tasks…

Jakob Nielsen has advice for B2B websites: „Build a reputation for being easy to do business with and for standing by your products with great service. This is where the Web shines: you can provide excellent post-sales support online at a fraction of the cost of older methods. Unfortunately, most of the support sites we’ve…

Stephan Spencer, president of Netconcepts, in a National Business Review article: „We were originally developing with Java and .JSP, and only using PHP for prototyping. Eventually we realised that the PHP prototypes worked better than the .JSP versions, so we dropped .JSP with relief; and we’ve never looked back.“

Looks like a great localization resource: The Common Locale Data Repository Project already did the job of translating language and country names for you and me, and they’re defining common date, time and currency formats per language/country. So if you need to know what’s the Thai word for „Hungarian“, just look here! „The purpose of…

Great article: Mike Duigou writes about Complexity. „What could make JXTA or any technology complicated for new users? There are far too many possibilities: * Installation hell * Configuration hell * Starting hell * Documentation hell * API hell * More hells“ Most problems he describes can happen with any programming language, but this one…