Autor: Tim Strehle

Jon Udell – On business/education partnership: „Thanks to personal online publishing and to an emerging cultural ethos of transparency, there is an exciting new possibility in the world. A young person today who is interested in software can find out what it is like to be a software developer — by evaluating products, by reading…

„PHPTMAPI implements a PHP API for manipulating topic maps, based on the TMAPI project.“

„Spread is an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across local and wide area networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and provides highly tuned application-level multicast, group communication, and point to point support. Spread services range from reliable messaging to fully…

Chris Laffra at IBM developerWorks – Considering Ajax, Part 1: Cut through the hype: „The major reason for the success of the Web is the predictability and simplicity of its UI model. Basically, anyone can move a mouse, click on a link, move a scrollbar, and hit the Back button. With the growing popularity of…

Ongoing Continuations compares passing state in hidden form fields or server-side sessions with continuations: „What David’s afraid of, and with good reason, is the obvious alternative: storing all of the data as global session state, with each page (or a cookie) referencing a single session ID from which the rest of the information can be…

Joel Spolsky – FogBugz 4½ and Subjective Well-Being: „If you’re a software designer, this is it. This is your big chance to do something meaningful to improve the world. Design software that puts the user in control and you’ll increase happiness, even if your product is the most boring accounting software imaginable. […] Brett also…

„Topincs is a Topic Map authoring tool, that allows groups to create Topic Maps in Firefox. Even though it is run in an ordinary browser window it feels like an application installed on your computer. […] It consists of a client, for editing maps and a server, for storing them. […] The Server requires Apache…

„Bazaar-NG is a decentralized revision control system designed to be easy for developers and end users alike. Decentralized revision control systems give people the ability to work over the internet using the bazaar development model.“

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Accessing the web of databases: „I’ve always regarded the Web as a programmable data source as well as a platform for the document/software hybrid that we call a Web page. Early on, programmable access to Web data entailed a lot of screen scraping. Nowadays it often still does, but it’s…

„The Google Data APIs („GData“ for short) provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData combines common XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom publishing protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries.“ Update: Byrne Reese on Google Calendar and OpenSearch.