Jahr: 2006

Sebastian Schürmann – Practical Testing PHP Applications with Selenium: „All in all Selenium provides a simple way to execute Acceptance Tests on Web Applications and as soon as you have a remarkable test suite, covering the basic steps of your Application you will find out that it eases developer life and daily usage lowers the…

Harry Fuecks has nice slides at SitePoint: Scripters UTF-8 Survival Guide (PDF).

Sam Ruby – WOA vs ROA: „There is a term that you won’t see in the body of Dion’s post. Or in the body of Alex’s. Or in the Wikipedia article on SOA. That term is “hypertext link”. Or even the term “link”. […] The link is the glue that holds the web together. It…

„With Time Machine, you can restore your whole system from any past backups and peruse the past with ease. Can’t find a file you want? Enter Time Machine’s time-based browser to see a snapshot of how your entire system looked on any given day — file by file. When you find the file you want,…

Paul Graham – How to Present to Investors: „The biggest fear of investors looking at early stage startups is that you’ve built something based on your own a priori theories of what the world needs, but that no one will actually want. So it’s good if you can talk about problems specific users have and…

Lyz Krumbach – Google Internals Talk: „This Google Internals talk takes you through the basics of how Google uses their approximately 450,000 servers to run everything from Google search to GMail worldwide. The slides are based on information gathered from reliable Google sources, including talks given by Google staff, and gives you a very basic…

Bloglines – Feed Access Control Standard for RSS and ATOM: „We are proposing (and have implemented) an RSS and ATOM extension that allows publishers to indicate the distribution restrictions of a feed. Setting the access restriction to ‚deny‘ will indicate the feed should not be re-distributed. In Bloglines, we’ll use this to prevent the display…

Curtis Poe – Project Management by Dummies: „In economics, search costs are the costs of acquiring information. Whether you pay for it, research it in books or on the Web or just discover it for yourself, the more time you spend searching for information the less time you have to develop your product. How many…

Jarosław Rzeszótko – Stiff asks, great programmers answer: „Steve Yegge: […] You’ll never make it very far as a programmer in any field unless you can get your ideas across to people effectively. Programmers should read voraciously, practice writing, take writing courses, and even practice at public speaking.“

Tim Bray – OSCON – Open Data: „At the end of the day, information outlives software and transcends software and is more valuable than software. I think any online service can call itself “Open” if it makes, and lives up to, this commitment: Any data that you give us, we’ll let you take away again,…