Jahr: 2007

David Cummings – Access Denied – Firefox 2.0 breaks access keys on the PC: „Firefox 2.0 doesn’t actually break access keys, as was originally thought. Rather, the Firefox developers fixed a different bug that was four years old and decided to change access keys from Alt plus the number/letter to Alt plus Shift plus the…

„Woof is a small simple stupid webserver that can easily be invoked on a single file. […] Just do a $ woof filename and tell the recipient the URL woof spits out. When he got that file, woof will quit and everything is done.“

Paul Graham – Learning from Founders: „Suits do not help people to think better. I bet most executives at big companies do their best thinking when they wake up on Sunday morning and go downstairs in their bathrobe to make a cup of coffee. That’s when you have ideas. Just imagine what a company would…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Pipes and Filters for the Internet: „Yahoo!’s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.…

Luke A. Kanies at O’Reilly Sysadmin – Why Isn’t System Administration Evolving?: „Imagine the best books on development only covering how to write code, and skipping over all the hard bits, like design or testing. Now imagine there only being about four books on development. Ouch. Welcome to my world. I’ve said it many times:…

„Zend Studio 5.5 is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available for professional developers that encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle.“ See also: Peter Manis at Linux.com – Increase PHP programming productivity with Zend Studio.

Bruce Eckel – Hybridizing Java: „It’s not impossible to build GUI applications with Java, but it’s been 10 years and there are still installation hiccups with applets, Java WebStart, and regular applications. After 10 years, people don’t trust it anymore. If it’s not there after 10 years, then I’m going to go out on a…

Obie Fernandez – Some of My Software Opinions: „The best way to keep developers motivated and productive is to keep them focused on delivering business value.“

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Adam Pash – A guide for switching to a Mac: „When I bought my first Mac a few short months ago, it took a while to figure out how to do all the stuff I already knew how to do on my PC. While it’s my job to spend time figuring that sort of thing…