Jahr: 2006

„XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and browser-based content management systems (IE/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/Safari/Netscape). The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, uses CSS for formatting, and ensures the clean separation of content from presentation. Markup generated by XStandard meets the most demanding accessibility requirements. The editor’s cool features include drag &…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Linux will get buried: „Imagine that your server room has a bank of USB ports, and that every enterprise application you want to run exists, pre-installed on a stripped, standardized Linux, and in a freeze-dried state, on a flash drive. Plug in a drive, and within a few milliseconds you…

Not having played with PHP 5’s native SOAP extension yet, I did expect it to work smoothly with the most simple application I could think of – querying Google via its SOAP Search API. Well… I first compiled the latest PHP 5.1.6 with –enable-soap and downloaded the Google SOAP Search API developer’s kit which contains…

Rob Walling – Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers: „No one anticipates a catastrophic system failure by looking on the bright side. The best developers I know are experts at finding points of failure. You’ll often hear them quipping „What could possibly go wrong?“ after someone makes a suggestion to handle a critical data…

„Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables „compute“ in the cloud. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. […] Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines…

Björn Schotte – Make the download of large files with PHP (and lighty) very easy: „Some days ago I stumbled upon an old entry of Jan in lighty’s life, called „X-Sendfile“. There he explains how to speed up the delivery of (large) files with lighttpd instead of PHP (YES, lighttpd is very fast – for…

Jon Udell – Del.icio.us is a database: „Although it’s intuitively obvious to me, I suspect that most people don’t yet appreciate how easily, and powerfully, tagging systems can work as databases for personal (yet shareable) information management. Del.icio.us isn’t simply backed by a database, it can function as a database to which you add (a…

Tim O’Reilly – Round 2: Dial Tone: „[I]n the 1940’s there was concern that the telephone system was growing so fast that there wouldn’t be enough operators unless AT&T hired every person in America. AT&T solved the problem by creating automated switching systems that, in effect, did turn every person in the world into an…

Elias Torres – WP-APP: Atom Publisher Protocol for WordPress: „Simply drop app.php into your root wordpress install directory and have some Atom/APP fun. If you don’t have wordpress installed, I’ve setup a demo server for you to try it out. First, register to get your own account, since you won’t be able to post/put/delete entries…

Joel Spolsky – Library Apps for Macintosh: „I really want to be able to shelve our books according to their Library of Congress card catalog number. When you do this, books on similar topics tend to wind up near each other on the shelves. This is a very useful feature if you don’t know the…