Jahr: 2004

Nick Usborne at A List Apart: „If you want people to know how to find what they want on your site, be sure the language you use is relevant to their needs. At its simplest, this means avoiding corporate-speak and industry jargon. It means taking the trouble to find out which words and terms your…

Looks great: „WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.“

Java developer Russell Beattie is impressed by PHP projects: „What is it about PHP that makes it so good for web projects? On the face of it, it looks like half-ass Perl or or scriptlet-based JSP pages. I mean all the bad things we’re supposed to be getting away from with MVC and JSTL is…

Harry Fuecks publishes a sample chapter on caching from his „PHP Anthology“ book.

Tim Berners-Lee on the world’s first web browser: „The first web browser – or browser-editor rather – was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract…

revjim.net tells us how to write better code in PHP: „Writing good, clean PHP code isn’t hard. One just needs a few simple guidelines.“ He’s explaining his approach to using Model/View/Controller architecture in a PHP application. (Not very well written, in my opinion – writing good, clean tutorials IS hard…)

I want one of those: Charles F. Goldfarb’s XML Handbook, Fifth Edition Take a look at the sample chapters The XML usage spectrum (PDF) and XML for machines (PDF), they’re nice to read.

Great programming font: Proggy! (Found it via Joel on Software.)

ZDNet UK has a fun article on Schwäbisch Hall’s migration from Windows to Linux: „Once the migration was completed, though, there were concerns that the open-source software would be harder to use than Windows. Again, Schwäbisch Hall had a solution. „We put the chairwoman of our workers‘ council on stage in front of all the…

Timothy Appnel lets us know that Walt Disney Company is using RSS for internal communication: „Internally, we are also leveraging RSS as a means of collaboration and communication for our software engineering teams. All engineers maintain blogs and use NewsAggregators to track tasks, projects, and new technology. In addition, we are tracking changes on our…