Jahr: 2007

Smashing Magazine – 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without: „Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we ,…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – IBM Wants Many Eyes on Visualization: „IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. […] As with swivel, users can upload any data set, but the tools for visualizing and graphing the data are much richer.“

„Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common „metadata“ properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. When installed, a new „Photo Info“ item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image fiiles, right-click and choose „Photo Info“ to open the…

„IBM Lotus Quickr will provide ready-to-use team places where team members — inside or outside the firewall — can share information and collaborate on projects online. […] Users can access content in Lotus Quickr right from their familiar Microsoft Windows desktop. They simply drag documents from their C-drive folders to personal or shared Lotus Quickr…

Joel Spolsky – The Big Picture: „The only thing harder than trying to design software is trying to design software as a team. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a meeting with even one or two other programmers, trying to figure out how something should work, and we’re just not getting…

Jon Udell – First have a great use experience, then have a great user experience: „We talk obsessively about the user experience, and we recognize that we invariably fail to make it as crisp and coherent as it should be. But user experience is an overloaded term. I propose that we unpack it into (at…

Nathaniel S. H. Brown – PHP vs. Ruby on Rails. An evolutionary story of a Web Developer and his tools: „What I find in ever increasing potency is that Ruby and Ruby on Rails needs documentation like PHP. Actually, every language ever created needs documentation like PHP. It is, at least it should be, the…

This week, my 2-year-old Acer TravelMate running Windows XP has been replaced by a 17″ Apple MacBook Pro. The switch went surprisingly well so far (with a little help from Mac-experienced colleagues). Here’s the software I’ve installed so far: Adium Firefox Fugu iTerm OpenOffice Skype Smultron Thunderbird Tunnelblick VMware Fusion Update: TextWrangler Black Screen Dashboard…

Marc Hedlund at O’Reilly Radar – Amazon S3 is everywhere: „Seems to me that everywhere I turn, I’m hearing about someone doing something cool with Amazon S3. Here’s a collection of some of the things I’ve noticed.“

The NeoSmart Files – The Need for Creating Tag Standards: „Basically, it’s too late for a tagging standard that will be used unanimously throughout the web. A truly semantic web most certainly won’t ever exist because of the reluctance to change and the unwillingness to compromise and accept defeat. A semantic web requires objective analysis…