Autor: Tim Strehle

Ben Hunt – Current style in web design: „I’m glad to say that web design in 2006 is better than ever. […] The examples below (which I’ll roll over time) show excellent modern graphic design technique. They all look good, and are clear and easy to use.“

Tim Bray – On PHP: „I should really buckle down and try writing a PHP app because, at the moment, I have an attitude problem. […] All the PHP code I’ve seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in…

„IBM today announced a company-wide initiative that combines its software and industry consulting expertise to help clients better compete in the global economy through uninhibited access to accurate, reliable and trustworthy business information. […] Additionally, IBM is announcing six new solution portfolios and new software products to help clients transform their businesses from an outdated…

„Welcome to AquaBrowser Library. Discover: * A constellation of words on the left shows you related terms, spelling variations and translations. * Click on words in the constellation to explore the contents of the catalogue. Refine: * Refine shows you what your search results contain. * Click on any term to focus and narrow your…

„With Vanilla we wanted to break the mold created and followed by just about every other forum on the web. We sat down and thought about what we liked, and more importantly, what we didn’t like about web forums. We wanted emphasis on the discussions rather than the statistics. […] Vanilla is a PHP /…

„Campfire makes group chat easy Every chat has a permanent URL Campfire chats don’t require special chat software or networks Instantly share and discuss files with your colleagues/clients Search or browse through transcripts of past chats“

Tim Bray – The Real AJAX Upside: „Pretty well all Web-publishing software does lots of templating and dynamic page generation, and pretty well all of it is piggish, stressing out servers (and, to be fair, representing a pretty good business opportunity for my employer). I suspect there’s a huge system-wide optimization waiting out there for…

„Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns.“

Make sure to take a look at Harry Fuecks‘ presentation slides AJAX@localhost [PDF] if you’re at all interested in AJAX… (Sam Ruby would probably have used the title ‚“Just“ use AJAX‘ instead)!

„Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in the actual environment that they will run.“