Jahr: 2004

The German Berliner Arbeitskreis Information compiled a directory of Software for Information Management (in German only).

Mark Pilgrim on XML.com – Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content: „So you want to write a program to read RSS and Atom syndicated feeds. Sounds simple enough. After all, RSS stands for „Really Simple Syndication“ (or „Rich Site Summary“, or „RDF Site Summary“, or something), and Atom is just RSS with different tag names, right? Well,…

Harry Fuecks on Mozilla visions: „Via Mozillazine, a fascinating post by Brendan Eich, the father of Javascript and Mozilla’s chief architect. This is fiesty stuff. Brendan basically lays out his view of how things are might play out, over the next five years, in the „battle“ to control the application development and deployment platform of…

David Fischer has compiled a well-written list of Web Application Security Tips (available in German only).

„memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.“ There’s a PECL package providing a PHP API for memcached… (thanks Thieso for the hint.)

Russell Beattie, Rampaging Computer Science: „The problem is that much of the Java stuff out there is just written by really smart morons who seem to love complexity for complexity’s sake. Even in the API itself! Ever used the Calendar API? It’s written by a monkey. Ever check out the code under the JSTL? Those…

Clay Shirky wrote a great article on what he calls Situated Software: „Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in…

Jakob Nielsen on Productivity in the Service Economy: „It’s great to employ usability methods to simplify intranet user interfaces and expedite performance within existing tasks. Do it. Millions of dollars are waiting to be saved for the average company. But, as the saying goes, we should also work smarter. Enterprise software has largely failed until…

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld: „Deloitte has developed what it calls Industry Prints for some 20-plus industries, using data gathered from Deloitte’s interactions with various enterprise-level companies. An Industry Print details every single process that makes up an industry. It maps processes all the way from the 10,000-foot level (run HR, run customer support) down to…

Rich Bowen: „[I]f I was to pick on the most common unnecessary modules, I think I’d have to go for these ones. mod_imap mod_mime_magic mod_unique_id“