Autor: Tim Strehle

„The goal of Varnish is to be a very fast, stable and effective light-weight HTTP accelerator daemon, by using modern and effective technologies. […] When we set out to design and implement a high-performance HTTP accelerator about a year ago, we knew that we could improve on the state of the art, but we did…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Watching out for our own security: „Desktop and server operating systems know, and can report, when you’ve logged in and what you’ve been doing. True, a savvy impersonator can erase her footsteps, but if you’re motivated to look, there’s a decent chance you can detect an intrusion. Applications and services…

Ola Bini – Rails, Databases, ActiveRecord and the path towards damnation: „Actually, the worst part with MySQL is that ActiveRecord have been designed based on it. […] It is incredibly hard to get other databases working with Rails, and even if you do get them working, it will be slow. Really slow. Take Oracle. Oracle…

Kurt Cagle – I Think, Therefore I eXist …: „eXist exposes a WebDAV interface that any WebDAV enabled software can use to both retrieve and write content from/to the database. For instance, from Oxygen (my all time favorite XML editor) I can select Open URL, pass the appropriate URL (http://localhost:8080/exist/webdav/db/ on the default) and you…

Tim Bray – “Publish” Everywhere: „Here’s the Atom dream: A “Publish” button on everything. On every word processor and email reader and web browser and cellphone and PDA and spreadsheet and photo-editor and digicam and outliner and sales-force tracker. Really, everywhere. If it doesn’t have a “Publish” button, it’s broken.“

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Bill Venners interviewed by Chris Adamson at ONJava.com – Ruby the Rival: „I don’t know much about Rails other than that it has been well marketed. The Rails marketeers drummed one message over and over, that Rails helps you build web apps quickly. Everyone has received this message loud and clear. It was a very…

Nathaniel S. H. Brown – DateBocks, the new, intuitive date input selection for your forms: „We use common terms in english to express how we identify a date coming up, or a date in the past. Such as “Next Tuesday”, “Last Month”, or even as simple as “Friday”. We clearly know which date that identifies,…

Eliot Kimber – Office Open XML: Good or Evil?: „Oh, and I hate MS Word with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. I’d sooner chew off my own arm than spend any time actually authoring words in Word. I’ve spent so many years authoring XML that having to deal with $*%&# like doing…

Luke Wroblewski – Refining Data Tables: „After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial…