Jahr: 2004

Tim Bray – More Relax: „[…] that RelaxNG is the world’s best schema language, and that anyone who who’s using XML but not RelaxNG should be nervous.“

Adam Bosworth – ISCOC04 Talk: „That software which is flexible, simple, sloppy, tolerant, and altogether forgiving of human foibles and weaknesses turns out to be actually the most steel cored, able to survive and grow while that software which is demanding, abstract, rich but systematized, turns out to collapse in on itself in a slow…

John Lim points to Peter Yared’s (former CTO of Sun’s application server division) article The Next Language (from September 2003): „The Java API’s grow into a morass of inconsistent and incomprehensible API’s, even the most simple things proved to be very complicated. […] So let’s look at the requirements for today’s corporate applications: * Handle…

Dunstan Orchard on his site’s dynamic panorama header: „The image displayed across the top of the site (for those using CSS compliant browsers) is a 1600 pixel-wide panoramic view from the top of my parents‘ house, in Dorset. The scene was originally captured as a series of photographs, before being manually traced in Xara X…

Roger Hudson, in Web Usability – Accessible Forms, explains: * „label for and id to associate form elements * <fieldset> and <legend> to group form elements * tabindex to set the tabbing order“

„Stylegala aims to promote, discuss and inspire the web audience in the areas of design, CSS and web standards – combined.“

„PHP/SWF Charts makes the best of both the PHP and SWF worlds. PHP scripts provide integration, and Flash provides the best display quality. Features: * Web charts from dynamic data * Live chart updates without reloading the web page * Clickable charts, and drill-down * Simple and flexible chart generation * Quality Flash graphics including…

Paul Graham – Made in USA: „Systematic“ is the last word I’d use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It’s something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch. In software, paradoxical as it…

„Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from…

Plugging my own OracleEditor.php project: I started it in early 2003, and it’s being downloaded more than 400 times a month (half of these hits coming from search engine bots, I suspect?). The freshmeat project counts 5,030 URL hits and 26 subscriptions. 40 people have e-mailed me so far regarding this script. Not impressive, but…