Jahr: 2004

DiamondWiki’s Faceted Navigation: „Faceted navigation lets people browse a website by using FacetedClassification to automatically generate relevant hyperlinks. If you want to see an example of faceted navigation in action, go to the BrowseFacets page and start clicking, paying attention to the categories on the left-hand side. Notice how pages can have both an „Author“…

Jakob Nielsen – Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design: „The original ideology of hypertext and the World Wide Web, as expressed by Vannevar Bush (1945), Ted Nelson (1960), and Tim Berners-Lee (1991) makes individual users the masters of the content and lets them access and manipulate it in any way they please.…

Jakob Nielsen in a Builder AU interview: „We could look beyond [cloning] and there could be a new set of productivity software. It could really be done another way. The real problem with Microsoft Office, besides being Microsoft, is that it is an office product based on paper. It comes out of research about how…

Mike J Brown – „The skew.org XML Tutorial, a reintroduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding“: „I wrote this document after having the realization, in early 2000, that every published XML reference I have seen does not adequately explain some fundamental concepts that, in my opinion, are essential to understand before trying to…

John Lim – Baking Data with ADOdb and Oracle: „I suspect that some open source advocates will be puzzled by my praising Oracle. Well my work involves pushing around massive amounts of data around. The cost of using a commercial database is only a fraction of the total software cost. People say that open source…

Derek Sivers – Award for beautiful coding: David Heinemeier Hansson: „Go download, install, and run Instiki. (If you don’t have Ruby 1.8.1 installed, it’s worth updating to it just to run Instiki.) After you’re amazed (will take only 1 minute) go to Rails. Watch the 10-minute video. Close your mouth: it’s open. Then go set…

ActiveState’s David Ascher – Dynamic Languages-ready for the next challenges, by design: „The driving forces for the creation of each major dynamic language centered on making tasks easier for people, with raw computer performance a secondary concern. As the language implementations have matured, they have enabled programmers to build very efficient software, but that was…

In a Technetra (India) interview, Rasmus explains where PHP 5’s additional OO features are coming from: „There were a lot of user requests for better Object Orientation in PHP. And a lot of the younger kids coming out of school these days want OO. Everything is Object Oriented. I’m old. In the computer science, Internet…

Paul Graham on Great Hackers: „Productivity varies in any field, but there are few in which it varies so much. The variation between programmers is so great that it becomes a difference in kind. I don’t think this is something intrinsic to programming, though. In every field, technology magnifies differences in productivity. I think what’s…

„The PHP Extension makes it easy to create, edit, and run PHP scripts in Oracle JDeveloper 10g.“