Autor: Tim Strehle

SphinxGenerally, it’s a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML…

Mike Morgan – Scalable PHP with APC, memcached and LVS (Part 2): „In our journey with addons.mozilla.org (AMO) we made some interesting group decisions a year ago that we regretted later: Smarty PEAR::DB PEAR::DB was unnecessarily large, and Smarty is just not worth it — it confuses the issue and redoes things PHP is already…

Pete Lacey – The S stands for Simple: „SOAP Guy: On the bright side, nobody uses the Doc/Lit style anymore. In order to get transport independence back we’re all using wrapped-doc/lit now. Doesn’t that sound cool: wrapped-doc/lit? Developer: What’s that? SG: Well, it’s just like Doc/Lit, but you take the whole message and wrap it…

Jon Udell – Tantalizing hints of the Knowledge Navigator: „It’s all compelling stuff, but there’s something about Avi Bryant’s [Dabble DB] maneuver that shouts Knowledge Navigator. In this 90-second excerpt from the screencast, you can see how Avi hoists data right out of a web page and weaves it into a structured view. So natural,…

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Jenn Riley – More structured metadata: „I often encounter people who see my job title (Metadata Librarian) and assume I have an agenda to do away with human cataloging entirely and rely solely on full-text searching and uncontrolled metadata generated by authors and publishers. That’s simply not true; I have no such goal. I am…

Sam Ruby – That’s Not Write: „I’ve known for a while that pretty much all the browsers don’t implement document.write when found in the context of XHTML documents — even in the case where both the enclosing document and string are separately well formed.“

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Apple Xserve: The final review: „While trends, or rather, the analysts who proclaim them, are pointing to the triumph of software as a service, outsourced applications, consulting, node-locked operating systems and other pay-as-you-go approaches, Apple is piloting a rocket-powered sled in the opposite direction. Apple is going to sell complete…

Tim Bray – Comparing Frameworks: „Maybe it’s just because I’m a grizzled 25-year veteran, but my feeling is that in the real world in the long term, maintainability is a really really big deal, the biggest of all. Out there in the wild woolly “Web 2.0” world, maybe getting it built quick is all that…

Simon St. Laurent at XML.com – The Next Web?: „Developers who craft smart APIs on their servers for use by AJAX-based web pages can then expose those APIs to other developers, getting the benefits of better interfaces for users who use web browsers to consume the data and for users who have their own custom…