Autor: Tim Strehle

„VisitorVille takes a revolutionary visual approach to web analytics. VisitorVille makes data mining simple and accurate, easily performing tasks that are impossible to accomplish using traditional (and dreadfully boring) web analytics solutions. What makes VisitorVille unique is immediately clear: VisitorVille does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but as real people in…

Steven Johnson in a Discover article (May 2003, p. 28) – Reality Bytes – Imagine if SimCity wasn’t just a game [PDF]: „In a true mirror world, data would be mapped onto recognizable shapes from real life. For instance, to find information on a local hospital, you would locate the building on a computerized map…

Nagios version 2.0 has been released…

Maarten Manders at SitePoint – Using SVN for Web Development: „As our web applications grew and more and more developers started working on them, it became obvious that we needed some kind revision control system to manage our code. As CVS is quite dated and Subversion (SVN) introduced some handy features (atomic transactions, Apache piggybacking,…

Paul Browne – How to avoid losing $199m: „Like houses , projects need good foundations. For IT Projects , the good foundations are sound knowledge of the Business Processes being coded into the system. Changing processes and changing IT systems at the same time is like building on sand.“

Steve Fox at InfoWorld – Mapping IT meltdowns: „IT pros, it seems, put plenty of thought into software and hardware. It’s mismanagement, office politics, and flawed processes that trip them up almost every time.“

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – Blueprint PHP application?: „Given that so many applications have been written in PHP, some extremely successful in terms of popularity, are there any applications you’d be happy to point people at for inspiration? Apps which, despite your personal tastes, you think make a good blueprint for doing PHP?“

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – PHP Security: Dumb Users or Dumb APIs?: „There’s another round of “Is PHP Secure?” debate happening right now. Chris drew attention to it, pointing to a post by Andrew van der Stock (who’s a contributor to OWASP): PHP Insecurity: Failure of Leadership. So the usual denials have been made (see…

Paul Browne – Watch out Java – Windows Workflow is coming!: „The problem is then that the Business People (who understand the workflow) can’t see how it is implemented in (hidden behind code), while the technical people don’t understand the business process. Workflow (closely related to Rule Engines) aim to solve this problem.“

„The date slider is a Flash visualization that Measure Map uses as one way to navigate the site. We are happy to provide a version of this date slider to the public.“