Jahr: 2007

Moritz Stefaner – Elastic lists: „Elastic lists enhance traditional facet browsing approaches by visualizing relative proportions (weights) of metadata values by size visualizing unusualness of a metadata weight by brightness and animated filtering transitions.“ (Via Ryan Eby.)

Tim Bray – Verschärfte Vernehmung: „Andrew Sullivan points out prior use of the term “Enhanced Interrogation”, promoted not only by the malevolent thickheads of the Bush administration but by most of the Republican candidates for President; prior use, that is, by the Gestapo. Meanwhile Dick Cheney argues that the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution…

Patrick Mueller – ETags are not a panacea: „ETags and Last-Modified processing is something you ought to do, if you can afford it, because it does allow for some optimization in your client / server transactions. To be clear, the optimization is that the server doesn’t have to send the content it would have sent…

„DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1.“ See also: DRBD for MySQL

Ryan Campbell – The Underbelly of a Web App: „Since launch, development time now comes in at around 80% (20% goes to support), and only about half of that time is spent implementing features that our users actually see. Here are some of the tasks that aren’t always thought about when making an application, but…

Dmitri Popov at Linux.com – Turning OpenOffice.org into a document conversion tool: „JODConverter can help you to unleash OpenOffice.org’s file conversion capabilities. To be able to use OpenOffice.org as a conversion engine, you have to start it as a service. This means launching it without its GUI and making it listen for incoming connections on…

Jon Udell – Tagging is declarative programming for everybody: „Among other things, tagging may become to ordinary folks what attributes are becoming to programmers: a language that doesn’t just describe things, but also invokes and coordinates behaviors.“

Scott Adams – Outsource the Government: „The Indians who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology are among the smartest people on the planet. And whatever they don’t already know, they can learn while you’re watching American Idol. Yeah, it hurts. But it’s true.“

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – „remove the web developer and the web gets developed“: „One wouldn’t think of Wikipedia as a news site, but it has indeed become one, as users find that they can make the software do what they want, rather than what it (originally) wanted. Ease of use can lead to…

Tim Bray – Lightroom Fanboy: „First of all, did I mention it’s fast? Second, there’s no Save button. It just takes care of that. And remember, all the edits are deltas, as in non-destructive. It occurs to me to wonder why all software that edits any data in any way whatsoever doesn’t work like this.…