Jahr: 2006

Niall Kennedy – Rasmus Lerdorf on scaling web apps with PHP: „Rasmus Lerdorf led OSCON attendees through a series of optimizations for modern web applications using PHP at O’Reilly’s Open Source conference today. Most programmers use default installations and configurations for their web applications and never really dig deep within their stack or their own…

Kevin Quiggle and Mike Whitton at Linux.com – A geo-located photo album in five easy pieces: „Open standards, and openness in general, enables people to combine a variety of technologies in new and interesting ways. For example, using a camera with Exif support, a GPS receiver, the Google Maps API, and Perl, PHP and JavaScript,…

„What CouchDb is: * A stand-alone document store, accessible via XML REST. * Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space. * Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution. * Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine with a simplified formula query language. The CouchDb data model was partially…

Jon Udell – A new breed of highly-available serverless applications: „Bill Seitz alerted me to one of those footpaths the other day: Les Orchard’s S3-backed wiki. Outstandingly cool! For those who have not followed the various plot threads closely, this is an evolution of the idea of the serverless wiki. […] Les has substituted Amazon’s…

W. Eliot Kimber – XML Content Management the Dr. Macro Way: Simple Is Good: „The key lessons I took away from this experience and that drive all my thinking about content management are: 1. Manage the XML source as versioned storage objects 2. Do all semantic processing, including link managing, metadata indexing, etc. as separate…

Tim O’Reilly cites a NY Times article – When Amateurs Roamed the Earth: „Before box cameras became universal a century or so ago, people drew for pleasure but also because it was the best way to preserve a cherished sight, a memory, just as people played an instrument or sang if they wanted to hear…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Application UI goes back to basics: „As the new generation of so-called rich Internet clients arrives, let’s be careful what kind of richness we wish for. We don’t need Web recreations of the feature-bloated monsters that our office suites became. What we need instead, and what’s starting to appear, is…

Robert Cooper – Why I Hate Microformats: „Yay, you have an iCal microformat in your page. You can use Trails, now to stick it right into your Google calendar. Neat. The problem is, this is a serious abuse of HTML. The way you SHOULD have done this is: <html:div xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/“> <vevent> <dtstart>20060501</dtstart><html:abbr>May 1</html:abbr> … Then…

Tim Bray – No Database!?: „I like the semantics of the Unix filesystem, and I also really like the fact that whether you’re talking ufs, ext3, zfs, or whatever, this is some of the world’s most thoroughly-debugged and battle-hardened code. Also, most modern operating systems are really quite clever at noticing when part of the…

Nathan Torkington – A Week in the Valley: GData: „There’s a huge move within Google away from SOAP and even REST-style ad hoc APIs and towards GData instead. The big point for me was that GData is just Atom/RSS for reading, Atom Publishing for writing, and A9 stored queries for searching.“