Jahr: 2007

Via Tim Bray – WS-dämmerung: James M. Snell – Notes: „Those who are familiar with my history with IBM should know that I was once a *major* proponent of the WS-* approach. […] I was involved in most of the internal efforts to design and prototype nearly all of the WS-* specifications. However, over the…

Howard Feldman at ONLamp.com – Advanced JavaScript III: „In this final article of the series, we proceed with another handful of useful JavaScript case studies that focus on manipulating and rewriting the HTML page on-the-fly using Document Object Model (DOM). […] Dynamic Tables: It is often desirable in a user interface to have the user…

Mark Pilgrim about the Amazon Kindle – The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts): „Another possible change: with connected books, the tether between the author and the book is still active after purchase. Errata can be corrected instantly. Updates, no problem. Newsweek, The Future of Reading Day by day and almost minute by…

Zend.com – Behind the Site: „Zend Platform can intercept calls to files that are larger than a given, configurable size, offloading those calls directly to Apache to boost performance.“

Steven Levy announces the Amazon Kindle e-Book reader in Newsweek – The Future of Reading: „Microsoft’s Bill Hill has a riff where he runs through the energy-wasting, resource-draining process of how we make books now. We chop down trees, transport them to plants, mash them into pulp, move the pulp to another factory to press…

Jon Udell – Jing’s the thing: „When the TechSmith folks told me about Jing I was thinking about screencasting at a different level: professional quality, careful editing, multiple delivery formats. So I made note of it, but didn’t fully appreciate its significance.“

Joel Spolsky – How to demo software: „As you go along, be sure to accidentally bump into all the nice little “fit and finish” features of your product. Oh look, that column is halfway off screen. No problem. I’ll just drag it over. (“Wha!” the audience gasps, “you dragged a column in HTML?”) Oh, look,…

dotCMS – What’s New in 1.5?: „WebDAV access to CMS File Repository“ PHProjekt – Summer of PHProjekt Addons: „PFolders is a WebDAV Interface for PHProjekt which enables you to access the file repository of the filemanager from PHProjekt without the web interface of PHProjekt.“ KnowledgeTree – Release Notes for Version 3.4.5: “ WebDAV and Network…

„From the Flux Operations Console, you can check on the status of jobs and workflows, remove jobs, recover jobs that have failed, reschedule jobs, perform other job maintenance, and monitor file transfer progress.“

Joel Spolsky – Evidence Based Scheduling: „Individual development tasks are easy to estimate, because you’ve written subroutines, created dialogs, and parsed files before. If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., “Implement Ajax photo editor”), then you haven’t thought about what you are going to do. In detail. Step by step. And when…