Jahr: 2006

Markus Urban – Outsource Your CSS Markup: „Some time ago I learned about two new services that offer outsourced CSS/XHTML coding. This was a pretty interesting concept and so I took both for a test drive. They both essentially convert your design from a PSD (Photoshop), Adobe Illustrator, JPG, or any type of “flat” file…

Markus Urban – 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website: „EASY is the most important feature of any website, web app, or program. Visual design and copy are extremely important. Open up your data as much possible. Test, test, test. Release features early and often. Be special. Don’t be special. If you plan…

Frederick P. Brooks (in 1987)- No Silver Bullet: „The familiar software project, at least as seen by the nontechnical manager, has something of this character; it is usually innocent and straightforward, but is capable of becoming a monster of missed schedules, blown budgets, and flawed products. So we hear desperate cries for a silver bullet–something…

Oliver Rist at InfoWorld – Used properly, RSS boosts collaboration: „Microsoft’s SharePoint push has made team-style collaboration a hot buzzword in Windows IT shops — mainly because Redmond’s made it so easy. Grab a template, add some team-specific content, spend a little time handling permissions and you can have a fairly sophisticated internal collaboration site…

W. Eliot Kimber – Topic Maps, Knowledge, and OpenCyc: „I think that topic maps are useful and attractive as far as they go: for the general business problem of managing metadata and associating it with data objects, it’s well suited and well thought out. Why do I think that topic maps (and anything similar, such…

„Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.“ (Via Gina Trapani.)

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld – Is IT on the rise again?: „In the old days, a company had to adjust its business processes to the packaged application. Now, due to SOA, a company can adjust the applications or services to the business processes they want. Along with this reversal comes the need for IT staffers…

Jack Slocum – WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI: „New comments can be General Comments as well, or they can be „Block“ comments. A „Block“ is any paragraph, image, title or code in a post. When you select a block to comment on, it is highlighted in blue. Comments can be posted anywhere in…

Scott Adams – Sunday Blogging!: „No matter how much news I absorb, I am always left with some important questions of context that seem conspicuously unanswered. […] My complaint is that these things should be included prominently in the news so the ignorant and lazy viewer such as me receives the right context without working…

Curtis Poe – Building Large Systems: „OK, your code is well-tested. Your code is better designed. You have intuitive APIs that anyone can use. Most processes are automated to remove bug-prone grunt work. You’re well on your way to making a system that’s easy to use, refactor, and extend. But you’ve paid a price. You’ve…