Autor: Tim Strehle

Alan Kay back in 1998 – prototypes vs classes was: Re: Sun’s HotSpot (via M. David Peterson): „The big idea is „messaging“ — that is what the kernal of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it’s something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase). The Japanese have a small word — ma —…

Avi Bryant – The internets are made of tubes: „With Dabble, anyone can now import data from a feed, combine it with data from elsewhere, restructure and filter it as needed, and push it out as another feed so the process can repeat.“

Interesting article on heise open / TN3 – Dokumentenmanagement mit Open Source [in German]: „Dokumentenmanagement ist mehr als eine Technologie, es ist eine der Königsdisziplinen in der Unternehmensorganisation. Es setzt fachübergreifendes Wissen und ein Gesamtverständnis vom Innenleben der Unternehmen, Organisationen und öffentlichen Verwaltungen voraus. Dokumenten-Management-Systeme (DMS) können ein wichtiges Werkzeug sein, aber nur, wenn sie…

Joel Spolsky – Language Wars: „These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful. […] I for one am scared of Ruby…

Graham Charters at IBM developerWorks – Using Service Data Objects to construct XML: „The code extract below shows how SDO can be used to load the XML schema and a quotes document and then add a new quote entry to that document.“

Thomas Claburn at InformationWeek – Google Revealed: The IT Strategy That Makes It Work: „Lots of small, short-lived projects mean traditional project management software based on task lists isn’t right for Google. For one thing, techies aren’t very good at cataloging how they spend their hours. What they are good at, it turns out, is…

„XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and browser-based content management systems (IE/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/Safari/Netscape). The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, uses CSS for formatting, and ensures the clean separation of content from presentation. Markup generated by XStandard meets the most demanding accessibility requirements. The editor’s cool features include drag &…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Linux will get buried: „Imagine that your server room has a bank of USB ports, and that every enterprise application you want to run exists, pre-installed on a stripped, standardized Linux, and in a freeze-dried state, on a flash drive. Plug in a drive, and within a few milliseconds you…

Not having played with PHP 5’s native SOAP extension yet, I did expect it to work smoothly with the most simple application I could think of – querying Google via its SOAP Search API. Well… I first compiled the latest PHP 5.1.6 with –enable-soap and downloaded the Google SOAP Search API developer’s kit which contains…

Rob Walling – Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers: „No one anticipates a catastrophic system failure by looking on the bright side. The best developers I know are experts at finding points of failure. You’ll often hear them quipping „What could possibly go wrong?“ after someone makes a suggestion to handle a critical data…