Jahr: 2004

Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution: Don’t check your email all the time. Don’t use „reply to all“ when responding to email. Write informative subject lines for your email messages. Create a special email address for personal messages and newsletters. Write short. Avoid IM unless real-time interaction will truly add value to…

Still wondering what’s the best way to read weblogs and news. Today, it’s hard to find a website that doesn’t provide a RSS feed (although I’m missing one on entwickler.com), so I just have to choose the right software that lets me read that feed. Sounds easy? I’m currently testing FeedDemon, which is great Windows…

It’s been some time since my experiments with OpenLDAP… Now at ONLamp.com, I found Dustin Puryear’s nice „getting started with LDAP“ article: „There has been a lot of buzz in the past few years about using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for centralizing system and network information, providing cross-platform user account databases, and even…

Data File Metaformats is a great chapter of Eric Steven Raymond’s The Art of Unix Programming book. It explains the history and pros and cons of text-based data file formats like CSV, RFC 822, XML, and INI.

Tim Bray: „There’s a real interesting note from Campbell and Swigart lamenting the fact that, down in the coding trenches, the worlds of objects and of RDBMSes and of XML are far from unified, and that attempts in that direction have been less than enthralling. I think we just have to get used to it,…

Here’s Jakob Nielsen’s list: Unclear Statement of Purpose New URLs for Archived Content Undated Content Small Thumbnail Images of Big, Detailed Photos Overly detailed ALT Text No „What-If“ Support Long Lists that Can’t Be Winnowed by Attributes Products Sorted Only by Brand Overly Restrictive Form Entry Pages That Link to Themselves