Jahr: 2007

David Greiner – Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered: „In this article that goes hand-in-hand with the release of Emails-Standards.org, David Greiner explains what you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.“

Amazon.com: „The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa’s large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl. […] If a requested thumbnail image does not yet exist, it will be automatically generated within…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – How can I learn to scale my project?: „The center of your design should be the data store, not a process. You transition the data store from state to state, securely and reliably, in small increments. […] Viewing an application as a series of state transitions instead of a…

„A J2EE web service client sends the document to the StarOffice 8 Server and receives the converted Acrobat PDF document immediately.“

Joel Spolsky – Talk at Yale: Part 3 of 3: „Being able to write clearly on technical topics is the difference between being a grunt individual contributor programmer and being a leader.“

Joel Spolsky – Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3: „The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog boxes was reasonable and neatly aligned, they checked whether the screen flickered when you did things, they looked at…

Dmitri Popov at Linux.com – Create impressive charts with Open Flash Chart: „Creating a high-quality chart for the Web can be a challenging task, but open source software like Open Flash Chart (OFC) makes it a cinch. As you might guess from its name, the core engine of OFC is written in Adobe Flash. Although…

Roger A. Grimes at InfoWorld – Go RBAC now: „Let’s assume that application developers do know exactly what permissions are needed for each task in their application — and this is indeed true of any application developed with RBAC in mind. The developers create application-specific groups that mimic the various roles that an end-user would…

Tim Berners-Lee – Giant Global Graph: „In the long term vision, thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system. Then, when I book a flight it is the…

Lukas Kahwe Smith – Remember: be nice to byte code caches: „<arnaud_> does autoload have a performance impact when using apc ? <Rasmus_> it is slow both with and without apc <Rasmus_> but yes, moreso with apc because anything that is autoloaded is pushed down into the executor <Rasmus_> so nothing can be cached <Rasmus_>…