Jahr: 2004

Chapter 8 of the We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs book is a great read.

Economist.com’s tribute to Dennis Ritchie: „Linux is also the true heir of the Unix tradition in the sense that its development process is collaborative. Dr Pike says that the thing he misses most from the 1970s at Bell Labs was the terminal room. Because computers were rare at the time, people did not have them…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Efficiency can be lost on code snobs: „At my local Ace hardware store, circular saws sit near the registers to tempt impulse buyers. When Ace sells you that saw, they’ve also got you for blades, safety glasses, and handy little accessories. But Ace isn’t the only beneficiary in this “sell…

„Vex is an editor for XML documents. The „visual“ part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for „document-style“ XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than „data-style“ XML documents. Vex is released under the…

Robert Bernier at ONLamp.com – Creating Custom Email Queries: „In my last article on data mining email, I described how you could upload a Mozilla mailbox into a PostgreSQL database. With the email uploaded, I showed how to search through the email looking for text strings using both the standard SQL and PostgreSQL’s POSIX regular…

„At the core of Trac lies an integrated wiki and issue/bug database. Using wiki markup, all objects managed by Trac can directly link to other issues/bug reports, code changesets, documentation and files. […] Having a network of links between issues/bugs/tasks, code changes and wiki text makes the big-picture perspective of a project truly accessible at…

An iX article (8/2004, p. 116) mentions some quite strange Internet Explorer behaviour which affects dynamically generated PDFs – there’s an MS knowledge base article: „To work around this limitation and to considerably improve the performance of your application, watch for the „contype“ userAgent request and only return the content-type.“ On an unrelated note, the…

Chad Dickerson – RSS growing pains: „As the popularity of RSS feeds at InfoWorld started to surge, I began to notice that most of the RSS clients out there requested and downloaded our feeds regardless of whether the feeds themselves had changed. At the time, we hadn’t quite reached the RSS tipping point, so I…

Adam Trachtenberg – Why PHP 5 Rocks: „Fortunately, PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 in three major areas: * Object-oriented programming * MySQL * XML These items have all been completely rewritten, turning them from limitations into star attractions. While these changes alone warrant a new version of PHP, PHP 5 also provides a plethora…

Michael Denny – Ontology Tools Survey, Revisited: „Reference to taxonomies and ontologies by vendors of mainstream enterprise-application-integration (EAI) solutions are becoming commonplace. Popularly tagged as semantic integration, vendors like Verity, Modulant, Unicorn, Semagix, and many more are offering platforms to interchange information among mutually heterogeneous resources including legacy databases, semi-structured repositories, industry-standard directories and vocabularies…