Autor: Tim Strehle

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…

„Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables „compute“ in the cloud. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. […] Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines…

Björn Schotte – Make the download of large files with PHP (and lighty) very easy: „Some days ago I stumbled upon an old entry of Jan in lighty’s life, called „X-Sendfile“. There he explains how to speed up the delivery of (large) files with lighttpd instead of PHP (YES, lighttpd is very fast – for…

Jon Udell – Del.icio.us is a database: „Although it’s intuitively obvious to me, I suspect that most people don’t yet appreciate how easily, and powerfully, tagging systems can work as databases for personal (yet shareable) information management. Del.icio.us isn’t simply backed by a database, it can function as a database to which you add (a…