Jahr: 2004

Dave Pollard dreams about personal knowledge management: „Highlighted on the virtual desktop are the current documents and messages that you last looked at. As it turns out, they consist of a report that you’re researching, a web page that you were half finished reading, and a message that you were composing in reply to the…

Sounds good: PEAR’s new version naming conventions. (Found via the ZZ/OSS weblog.)

John Neil on the Oracle Technology Network: „A case study in how the PHP/Oracle development Model reduced the application lifecycle at Myers Internet.“ Quote: „The quick turnaround times that PHP development affords allowed for the complete order entry part of the system to be fully prototyped, both visually and functionally, within a two-week period. This…

Sean Hull compares PHP and ASP.NET on the Oracle Technology Network: „In this article I’ll focus on PHP, the technology Oracle has chosen to incorporate into its products, and ASP.NET. […] In conclusion you’ll find a point-by-point comparison in terms of price, speed and efficiency, security, cross-platform support, and the advantages of an open source…

IPTC Metadata: Subject Reference System & NewsML Topicsets: „The IPTC creates and maintains for many years sets of terms to be assigned as metadata to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio- and video files and streams.“

Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML, gets excited about OpenOffice – seems like good software is made in Hamburg, Germany 🙂 … „The way that these guys store the data is massively, fiendishly, outrageously clever. They have their own XML tag set, which includes (in one namespace) all the basic word-processing, spreadsheet, and…

Jason Cook wrote an article on GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF and FOAF, on webmonkey: „Well, META’s not dead. In the pages that follow, I’ll be giving you a bird’s eye view of a few independent technologies, each aspiring to get useful metadata back into the Web. Some are homegrown, some corporate, and some academic,…

Microsoft Internet Explorer is dead, Mozilla is just so much better. This is not geek toy evangelism, it’s the plain truth. In case you didn’t know this yet, read Jon Udell: „During Mozilla’s long nuclear winter, I stuck with IE because I wasn’t willing to live with compromises. Then the tables turned. Suddenly, IE was…

XML.com: „Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP“ „There are many available scripting languages that support web services. PHP is one such language, with a powerful arsenal of open source functions and tools. In this article, we will compare and contrast three methods of consuming and producing web services: XML-RPC, SOAP and REST.“

A totally non-IT-related note: I love Le Fay’s bass guitars – take a look at their picture gallery! (I own an old Pangton.)