Jahr: 2005

Jon Udell – Sufficiently simple technology: „When I ran into trouble with Rubric, and couldn’t find the SQL INSERT INTO statement anywhere in the code, I knew I’d have to learn about Class::DBI in order to proceed. Result: I punted. Scuttle is written in PHP, and doesn’t use any such abstraction layer. When I ran…

John Lim – PHP’s lucky number 4: „Last week, I downloaded PHP 5.0.4. I’ve not been sufficiently impressed with previous versions of PHP5 to actually recommend its use. PHP 5.0.4 is the first version of PHP 5 that I would consider sufficiently stable for production use; PHP 5.0.4 finally passes most of the same Q&A…

Paul Graham – Copper and Tin: „The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out. But that’s something you can learn quickly. […] And compared to the sort of problems hackers are used to solving, giving customers what they want is easy. Anyone who can…

Andrew Cowie at ONLamp.com – Extreme System Administration: „Write user stories. Jot down, in just a few sentences, what the user experience will be for interacting with your group, your systems, or some process interface you are creating. Share this with people–your team, your boss, and above all the people who will use it. […]…

Julio M. Merino Vidal at ONLamp.com – Making Packager-Friendly Software: „A package maintainer, or packager, is a person who creates packages for software projects. He eventually finds common problems in these projects, resulting in a complex packaging process and a final package that is a nightmare to maintain. These little flaws exist because in most…

Joel Spolsky – The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part IV: „Before we could launch FogBugz, even after the final shipping bits were perfect and ready to go, we had a list of things we wanted to have ready to make the product experience complete. For FogBugz 4.0 the big things were: 1. Professional-quality graphic design…

John Lim – Python never had a chance against PHP: „Ian Bicking has a very interesting and excellent Python blog. In Why Web Programming Matters Most he talks about PHP and Python. […] Here are some of the areas where Python remains inferior, despite a 5-year headstart over PHP.“

Joe Beda has „some theories as to why C++ hasn’t developed the same set of libraries that other environments such as Perl, Python, Java, C#, etc. have. […] Code written to deal with exceptions doesn’t interop well with code that turns exceptions off. […] In any case, the result is that these are walls to…

Don’t be evil, Google – stop spreading Nazi propaganda.

„con:cern is a workflow engine based on an extended case handling approach. A process is described as a set of activities with pre- and postconditions. An activity is executed when its preconditions are met. It manipulates the process item, thereby creating postconditions. The process flow is determined at run-time. This approach is superior to the…