Jahr: 2005

Joe Gregorio at XML.com – Dreaming of an Atom Store: A Database for the Web: “Imagine that you just have a huge glob of storage that you can store Atom Entries in, and which you can edit using the APP, and then search over using OpenSearch. That idea, that big blob of Atom Entries, all…

Tony Marston – An activity based Workflow Engine for PHP: “This document will describe the activity based workflow system which I have constructed as an extension to my Development Infrastructure for PHP. […] In order to implement a workflow system it is first necessary to find a suitable means of designing and modeling a workflow…

PostgreSQL Gotchas: “PostgreSQL is a fully-featured, robust open-source database with strong SQL standards compliancy. As with all RDBMS products it has its odd little idiosyncracies, which while documented, are not obvious, counter-intuitive or just head-scratchingly odd.” I’ve already run into some of the problems described there – “unquoted object names fold to lower case“, and…

Neil Kandalgaonkar – Links to essays in Best Software Writing I: “Joel Spolsky has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls The Best Software Writing I. The essays all came from online sources, but when Spolsky released the chapter listing, I didn’t see anywhere online where he posted links to the originals.…

In “On Browser UIs”, Richard S. Tallent has a comprehensive list of reasons “why web apps suck“. On “missing widgets“: “Tree views: even the best ones out there suck. MSDN, for example. They also almost invariably lead to using frames to avoid population and rendering on each page refresh. […] Context menus. This alone is…

Marcus Baker – Listen kids, AJAX is not cool: “If you writing a user interface, make sure it responds in 1/10th of a second. That’s a pretty simple rule, and if you break it, you will distract the user. […] Suddenly we have lot’s of web developers “enhancing” the browser experience with behind the scenes…

“Backbase provides Rich Internet Application (RIA) software that radically improves the usability and effectiveness of online applications, and increases developer productivity. With Backbase you can build web applications with a richer and more responsive user interface.”

Andi Gutmans – PHP OCI8 Driver Updated!: “Antony just sent an email that he finished commiting the updates to the PHP OCI8 driver and giving a short overview of the bug fixes and improvements. The OCI8 extension has had a lot of bugs in the past few years, and it became clear that if this…

“This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to Oasis OpenDocument v1.0 format, and then optionally runs them through an XML pipeline. The result is returned in a .zip file. Docvert builds upon OpenOffice.org because it has the best chance of dealing with the vagaries of the MS Word…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – WinFS and social information management: “I saw my first demo of Microsoft’s Cairo OFS (Object File System) back in 1993. It was briefly unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference that year, and then shelved. This week I installed the beta version of its successor, WinFS.”