Jahr: 2005

On IBM’s developerWorks: „Read our latest articles and tutorials on developing with PHP. And browse comprehensive listings of the articles, tutorials, project info, news, and events you need to stay up-to-date on developing with PHP.“ See also: phpblog@developerWorks

Martin LaMonica on ZDNet News – IBM backs open-source Web software: „One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM’s push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM’s disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry’s inability to make Java very easy to use. „IBM’s been so fed up with Java that…

Joe Gregorio at XML.com – XML.com: How to Create a REST Protocol: „If you follow web services, then you may have heard of REST. REST is an architectural style that can be used to guide the construction of web services. Recently, there have been attempts to create such services that have met with mixed success.…

Subversion’s Garrett Rooney on ONLamp.com – Preserving Backward Compatibility: „The first kind of compatibility most people think about is API compatibility. […] Second is Application Binary Interface, or ABI, compatibility. […] If your program communicates over a network, it has to deal with a third form of compatibility, client-server protocol compatibility. […] Finally, if your…

Jamie Zawinski on Novell’s Hula: „If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. When words like „groupware“ and „enterprise“ start getting tossed around, you’re doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some…

Tim Bray thinks that what I studied is worth a lot; he calls it Real Information Retrieval – thanks 🙂 „It dawned on me that now I work for a big company, and big companies have libraries, and sure enough, we do. It has a nice site on the Intranet where you can submit research…

Jon Udell on InfoWorld – Let’s hear it for screencasting: „I’m now using screencasts – that is, narrated movies of software in action – to showcase application tips, capture and publish product demonstrations, and even make short documentaries. And I’m seeing others around the Net starting to do the same.“

Nikita Ogievetsky’s (Cogitech, Inc.) and Terry Badger’s (Eastman Kodak Company) XML Europe 2003 presentation on Topic Map Solutions for Kodak Digital Camera Accessories: „This presentation shows how Topic Map based solutions are used to build, organize and maintain Kodak digital cameras accessories web site. The chosen approach did not require software investment. Excel, an available…

Peter-Paul Koch on A List Apart – JavaScript Triggers: „CSS triggers are well known. The class and id attributes allow you to fully control the presentation of your websites. […] The behavior layer should function in exactly the same way. We should separate behavior and structure by discarding inline event handlers like onmouseover=“switchImages(‚fearful‘,6,false)“. Instead, as…

Graham Moore, Kal Ahmed: „Topic Map Relational Query Language [PDF] (TMRQL) has been designed in order to provide a sound foundation for querying topics maps. To this end it does not define an entire new language but instead presents a core set of abstract relational views. The relational model provides a firm foundation for the…