Jahr: 2005

“Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may…

Richard Davey – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: “The ease of developing with PHP has lead to the creation of this script gold mine, and while it can be a wonder to explore there are many factors you should take into consideration before going on a downloading frenzy. Will the script you are…

“Wikidata is a proposed wiki-like database for various types of content. This project as proposed here requires significant changes to the software (or possibly a completely new software) but has the potential to centrally store and manage data from all Wikimedia projects, and to radically expand the range of content that can be built using…

chromatic – Maybe it’s Not Just Ruby on Rails: “In my mind, the issue isn’t “Ruby on Rails is more flexible and capable than standard J2EE or .NET for any project under a (very high) threshold of complexity“. The real point is that the simplicity, flexibility, and abstraction possibilities offered by dynamic languages and well-designed…

Paul Prescod – Reinventing Email using REST: “As an educational tool, this article will describe how to re-engineer a familiar application, email, as a Web Service using HTTP and the principles of Web Architecture and REpresentational State Transfer.”

“Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browsers, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. […] Installed with your application webserver, Selenium automatically deploys it’s JavaScript automation engine – the Browser Bot – to your browser…

Tim Bray – Wikipedia Notes: “As of today, there are 124 servers, fairly heterogeneous, although these days they’ve pretty well standardized on dual-Opteron boxes. The MediaWiki software is PHP-based, mostly running on Fedora; I wonder if this is the world’s largest-scale PHP deployment, or would Yahoo top that? They get a pretty good hit rate…

Oliver Rist at InfoWorld – Preview: Windows Workflow Foundation: “WWF creates a class of application that is rarely seen except when created through extraordinary effort: A distributed user-facing application. From a developer’s perspective, WWF is a toolbox of abstractions for workflow-related activities such as receiving and sending Web services calls, taking conditional branches from an…

John Allspaw (Flickr) has nice presentation slides titled Hardware Layouts for LAMP Installations [Powerpoint], talking about hardware requirements, MySQL load balancing and caching for large-scale LAMP installations.

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – Oracle 10g XE and PHP: “In case you missed it, yesterday Oracle announced a free (as in beer) version of their database – Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) – basically a ‘lite’ version – some industry analysis here. Significance of this move aside, more interesting is having a play. Managed…