Autor: Tim Strehle

Eliot Kimber – Adobe MARS: Looks Interesting: „MARS is an XML-based format that is intended as a functional replacement for PDF. It’s not really accurate to call it an XML version of PDF because it’s not a simple transliteration of PDF into tags (which could be done easily enough) but a ground-up exercise in designing…

Joel Spolsky – Simplicity: „Donald Norman concludes that simplicity is overrated. […] I think it is a misattribution to say, for example, that the iPod is successful because it lacks features. If you start to believe that, you’ll believe, among other things, that you should take out features to increase your product’s success. With six…

Jon Udell – A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft: „For those of us in the club, it’s a golden age. With computers and networks and information systems we can invent new things almost as fast as we can think them up. But we’re leaving a lot of folks behind. And…

Jon Udell – General-purpose intermediation: „But slogger notwithstanding, there’s a much deeper and more general thing that ought to be happening on every web-enabled system. It ought to be trivial to attach an observer and/or filter to HTTP pipelines. Among other things, it could shovel data into a search engine so that I could instantly…

„Intalio|Workflow is an integrated human workflow suite based on the new BPEL4People extensions and compatible with any JSR 168 portal. Because it offers an AJAX-based XForms implementation, it gives workflow participants a productive and engaging user experience, while remaining compatible with any major web browser in use today.“

Wolfgang Bartelme – Microformats Icons: „As Microformats have gained much popularity over the last year we thought it was time to standardize the way they are represented on a website. So we created the Microformats Icon Set. The starter set contains icons for hCal, hResume, hCard, XFN and a generic TAG icon.“

Sebastian Bergmann – eZ Components Workflow Engine: “ The Workflow components that I developed as part of my Diploma thesis („Design and Implementation of an Activity-Based Workflow Engine“) and that will be part of the eZ Components, an enterprise ready general purpose PHP components library by eZ Systems, provide this layer in the form of…

Jason Pontin interviews Bjarne Stroustrup at Technology Review – The Problem with Programming: „In theory, the answer is simple: educate our software developers better, use more-appropriate design methods, and design for flexibility and for the long haul. Reward correct, solid, and safe systems. Punish sloppiness. In reality, that’s impossible. People reward developers who deliver software…

Dragan Dinić – PHP 5.2 upload progress meter: „Yesterday I’ve spent considerable amount of time in order to find out more about the most interesting new PHP 5.2 feature – hook for upload progress meter.“

Pete Lacey – They can’t hear you: „Maybe you don’t work for or with a Global 2000 company, so I’ll let you in on a little secret: They Can’t Hear You! That’s right, the CIOs, and Enterprise Architechts, and, yes, even the journeyman programmer employed by these firms have no idea that there’s even a…