Jahr: 2004

„Automator contains a library of Actions. Each Action is designed to perform a single task, such as finding linked images in a Web page, renaming a group of files or creating a new event in an iCal calendar. Actions from the Automator library are added in sequence to a Workflow document. Each Action in the…

chromatic’s Pragmatic Programmers Interview: „Andy Hunt: […] Simple applications should be simple to write, easy to install and maintain. That used to be the case, but the current state of the world with web applications, J2EE, and so on is quite a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Dave Thomas: Interestingly, we’re seeing…

Harry Fuecks – Seperating Browser from Resource: „A personal grievance: I hate writing admin interfaces for web applications. The „front end“ – what a site’s visitors see – no problem but the admin interface, which is typically both more complex and at the same time, visible only to a limited use group, drives me nuts…

Jon Udell – The Google PC generation: „Job No. 1 for the Google PC would be to vacuum up all available sources of data. Job No. 2 would be to exploit that data to the hilt. On the Google PC, you wouldn’t need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant…

Joel Spolsky wants more web-app-developer friendly features in the web browser: „In the previous rounds of HTML enhancement, the world’s great graphic designers (like Jeffrey Zeldman) made the most noise and got us things like CSS which allow the kind of pixel-perfect page layout that the marketing people like, done in an intelligent way that…

Nothing new, but well-written by Scott Granneman – Time to Dump Internet Explorer: „Look, let’s be honest with each other. We all know this is true: IE is a buggy, insecure, dangerous piece of software, and the source of many of the headaches that security pros have to endure […]. It’s time to tell our…

Found Cory Doctorow’s great piece on why the Semantic Web will not exist – Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia: „2. The problems 2.1 People lie 2.2 People are lazy 2.3 People are stupid 2.4 Mission: Impossible — know thyself 2.5 Schemas aren’t neutral 2.6 Metrics influence results 2.7 There’s more…

Brian Jones – Using Jabber as a log monitor: „Jabber, the streaming XML technology mainly used for instant messaging, is well-suited to its most common task. However, Jabber is a far more generic tool. It’s not a chat server per se, but rather a complete XML routing framework. This has some pretty far-reaching implications.“

„LAMPPIX allows you to burn your web projects (i.e. PHP presentations or Perl scripts) onto a CD-ROM and give them away to others. They will only have to insert the CD and reboot — if you configured LAMPPIX right (and this is really easy!) they can view your project.“

„Rhizome is a Wiki-like content management and delivery system that exposes the entire site — content, structure, and metadata as editable RDF. This means that instead of just creating a site with URLs that correspond to a page of HTML, with Rhizome you can create URLs that represent just about anything, such as: structural components…