Jahr: 2006

Sebastian Bergmann – eZ Components Workflow Engine: “ The Workflow components that I developed as part of my Diploma thesis („Design and Implementation of an Activity-Based Workflow Engine“) and that will be part of the eZ Components, an enterprise ready general purpose PHP components library by eZ Systems, provide this layer in the form of…

Jason Pontin interviews Bjarne Stroustrup at Technology Review – The Problem with Programming: „In theory, the answer is simple: educate our software developers better, use more-appropriate design methods, and design for flexibility and for the long haul. Reward correct, solid, and safe systems. Punish sloppiness. In reality, that’s impossible. People reward developers who deliver software…

Dragan Dinić – PHP 5.2 upload progress meter: „Yesterday I’ve spent considerable amount of time in order to find out more about the most interesting new PHP 5.2 feature – hook for upload progress meter.“

Pete Lacey – They can’t hear you: „Maybe you don’t work for or with a Global 2000 company, so I’ll let you in on a little secret: They Can’t Hear You! That’s right, the CIOs, and Enterprise Architechts, and, yes, even the journeyman programmer employed by these firms have no idea that there’s even a…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – We need a universal canvas that doesn’t suck: „While e-mail dissolves barriers to the exchange of data, we need another solvent to dissolve the barriers to collaborative use of that data. Applied in the right ways, that solvent creates what I like to call the “universal canvas” — an environment…

Tim Bray – Choose RELAX Now: „Everybody who actually touches the technology has known the truth for years, and it’s time to stop sweeping it under the rug. W3C XML Schemas (XSD) suck. They are hard to read, hard to write, hard to understand, have interoperability problems, and are unable to describe lots of things…

Chris Lovett – XML Notepad 2007 Design: „I finally got around to fulfilling a promise I made to a friend at MSDN. Back in 1998, we shipped an XML Notepad, written by Murray Low in C++. Later on it fell behind in support for XML standards and, because we didn’t have time to fix it,…

SphinxGenerally, it’s a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML…

Mike Morgan – Scalable PHP with APC, memcached and LVS (Part 2): „In our journey with addons.mozilla.org (AMO) we made some interesting group decisions a year ago that we regretted later: Smarty PEAR::DB PEAR::DB was unnecessarily large, and Smarty is just not worth it — it confuses the issue and redoes things PHP is already…

Pete Lacey – The S stands for Simple: „SOAP Guy: On the bright side, nobody uses the Doc/Lit style anymore. In order to get transport independence back we’re all using wrapped-doc/lit now. Doesn’t that sound cool: wrapped-doc/lit? Developer: What’s that? SG: Well, it’s just like Doc/Lit, but you take the whole message and wrap it…