Autor: Tim Strehle

„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.“

„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,…