Jahr: 2005

“Alfresco is an open source, open-standards content repository built by the most experienced content management team that includes the co-founder of Documentum.” (Take a look at the tour and the architecture diagram.)

John Lim – The fine art of programming: “Here’s a list of excellent online programming guides that i am compiling.”

Derick Rethans’ minutes of the PHP Developers Meeting in Paris November 11th and 12th, 2005, planning for PHP 6 – some interesting excerpts: 1.1 Unicode on/off modes: “[…] We also discussed whether we should even allow Unicode mode to be turned off as current micro benchmarks show that the Unicode implementations of some of the…

Matt Rand at Forbes.com – Open Source Invades the Enterprise: “Pfizer recently embarked on a $25,000 pilot program, where it set up an open-source LAMP architecture next to BEA’s Weblogic J2EE software. It used each software framework to build an application that pulled data from an Oracle database. What surprised Pfizer’s Martin Brodbeck, the director…

Michael Nash at developer.com – Decoupling Application Logic, Persistence, and Flow: The Model Technique: “The next step beyond separation of persistence and business logic can be the separation of the application control flow. Business logic classes in this case are written in such a way that they are unaware of how they were called, or…

Kevin Farnham at ONLamp.com – Analyzing Statistics with GNU R: “Even for people who aren’t expert statisticians, the power of R is alluring. Working interactively or using an R script, with just a few lines of code a user can perform complex analyses of large data sets, produce graphics depicting the features and structure of…

Simon Willison – Google Base is interesting: “Base is a very interesting product for a whole bunch of reasons. The data model is surprisingly simple on the surface: all items have a title, description, (optional) external URL, a “type” and a set of labels (a.k.a. tags) and “attributes“. Attributes are something for tag enthusiasts to…

“Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Developed and used over the past two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed from scratch to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of experienced Web developers. It has convenient niceties…

Ben Meyer – Grandma’s don’t use computers: “So who should software developers target for their easy of use testing? Who can’t wont put up with software that is hard to use? Middle aged men that have kids or commonly referred to as “dads“. They are young enough to know about the latest technology, old enough…

“Dabble combines the best of group spreadsheets, custom databases, and intranet web applications into a new way to manage and share your information online.”