Autor: Tim Strehle

This week, my 2-year-old Acer TravelMate running Windows XP has been replaced by a 17″ Apple MacBook Pro.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…

Timothy M. O’Brien at ONJava – Java’s „Operations“ Problem: „Tell a really capable Debian admin that they are going to have to support a bunch of Java applications, and they will subconsciously shudder. Sysadmins are, by definition, OS focused, they enjoy dealing with native applications, and they tend to fear the JVM as it is…

„Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.“

Jon Udell – Trusted feeds: „As several folks rightly pointed out in comments here, a community site based on tagging and syndication is exquisitely vulnerable to abuse. In the first incarnation of the photos page, for example, a malicious person could have posted something awful to Flickr and it would have shown up on that…

„CAS provides enterprise single sign on service: An open and well-documented protocol An open-source Java server component A library of clients for Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Apache, uPortal, and others“

Nitesh Dhanjani at ONLamp – Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug is a Huge Security Issue: „The Adobe JavaScript execution bug recently discovered is a huge security issue for any organization that serves PDF files via its web servers. […] An attacker could embed malicious JavaScript code to have the cookie value for your Google/GMail session…

Alex Faaborg – Microformats – Part 3: Introducing Operator: „Today Mozilla Labs is releasing Operator, a microformat detection extension developed by Michael Kaply at IBM. Operator demonstrates the usefulness of semantic information on the Web, in real world scenarios.“

Sam Ruby – OpenID for non-SuperUsers: „Based on the results of my Unobtrusive OpenID post, it is quite evident that there is a lot of partial knowledge about OpenID out there. While my knowledge on the subject is far from complete, this post is my attempt to share what I have learned with others. The…