Jahr: 2008

Jon Wise – Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 2 – The Job: „So after months of wearing jeans, chugging caffeine, cluttering your desk with sketches and reference material, you clean yourself up, put on a nice pair of pants, comb your hair, and sell again. Although most organizations have a sales force and a marketing…

One year after the Switch, I’m still quite happy with my MacBook Pro (now running Leopard). Although it took me a couple of weeks to get accustomed to the differences in keyboard layout (@, Cmd vs. Ctrl, brackets etc.)… Pros: very beautiful, thoughtfully designed (and fast) hardware and software, great user experience changing networks and…

TinyMCE 3.0 final Released: „These are some of the big changes since the 2.1.3 version. * Core is completely rewritten and optimized. * Smaller download size and less files to load. * Improved Safari support. * New and improved API, documented at wiki.moxiecode.com.“

Todd Hoff and Bill Boebel at High Scalability – How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data: „The system stores over 800 million objects (an object = a user event such as receiving an email or logging into IMAP) within Solr and 9.6 billion within Hadoop, which equals 6.3 TB compressed.…

Jon Udell – Hacking the Noosphere: „Think back to that band of chimps watching one of its members learn out how to use a termite stick. With humans, as with chimps, it’s monkey see, monkey do. We learn by watching and imitating. For most of human history, humans learned how to use tools by watching…

Adrian Sutton – Atom Is The New JCR: „When the Java Content Repository (JCR) standard first came out it was supposed to bring in a new era of compatibility between content repositories and put an end to the content silo. There was, and still is, a lot of talk about it and just about everyone…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – MarkMail Provides Amazing Search Capabilities: „I love the way MarkMail gives me a bunch of drill-down choices in the UI, and as I choose them, rewrites the command-line in the search box. I’d love to see features like this in my other mail packages. With Mail.app on Mac OS…

Tim Bray – 2008 Prediction 4: PHP Problems: „A big project I’m peripherally involved with needed to include an outward-facing Wiki, and I suggested that MediaWiki was damn good stuff. They put in quite a bit of work and failed to get MW to integrate with the rest of the system. Yes, it’s a good…

„This project [xmlhttprequest] aims to: Deliver standard-compliant (W3C) cross-browser implementation of the XMLHttpRequest object Fix ALL browsers quirks observed in their native XMLHttpRequest object implementations Enable transparent logging of XMLHttpRequest object activity“

Jason Fried – Where did the intranets go?: „When we were still doing client work back in the early 2000s we got a lot of calls about designing intranets. Everyone wanted an intranet. The employees we talked to loved their intranets too—their jobs depended on having access to bits of information, files, forms, etc. that…