Jahr: 2005

Karl Fogel: “Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. Producing Open Source Software is available in bookstores, and you can browse or download it here.”

Adam Bosworth at ACM Queue – Learning from THE WEB: “Successful systems on the Web are bottom-up. They don’t mandate much in a top-down way. Instead, they control themselves through tipping points. For example, Flickr doesn’t tell its users what tags to use for photos. Far from it. Any user can tag any photo with…

Jakob Nielsen – Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes: „Some weblogs are really just private diaries intended only for a handful of family members and close friends. Usability guidelines generally don’t apply to such sites, because the readers‘ prior knowledge and motivation are incomparably greater than those of third-party users. When you want to…

„collectd is a small daemon which collects system information every 10 seconds and writes the results in an RRD-file.“

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Managing metadata: „Everyone knows the common definition: Metadata is data about data, a secondary thing that’s separate in some way from the primary thing to which it refers. But that definition begs a series of questions. Is metadata something we derive from data, or assign to it? Does it classify…

David Weinberger at Wired – Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye.: „As you pass the locked entrances to rooms – caverns, actually – that encompass entire patent-application warehouses and film libraries, you feel like you’re navigating through the brain of a slumbering giant. And there, in one of its farthest recesses,is where the beast stores the…

Wez Furlong – Guru – Multiplexing: „People often assume that you need to fork or spawn threads whenever you need to do several things at the same time – and when they realize that PHP doesn’t support threading they move on to something less nice, like perl. The good news is that in the majority…

Joel Spolsky – Architecture Astronauts Are Back: „When I wrote my original complaint about architecture astronauts more than four years ago, it was P2P this and messaging that. […] Now it’s tagging and folksonomies and syndication, and we’re all supposed to fall in line with the theory that cool new stuff like Google Maps, Wikipedia,…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld.com – Making a routine of citizen journalism: „Google Maps and its brethren are frameworks we can use to correlate online data and services with locations in the physical world. GPS, phone, and data networks can supply the locations. We just need to work out a few kinks. Cameras need to know…

„VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server.“ „VMTN’s collection of pre-built virtual machines from industry-leading ISV and open source partners simplifies software packaging, distribution, and deployment. Instead…