Autor: Tim Strehle

Ian Bicking – There’s so much more than Rails: „Ruby doesn’t have Acquisition, but it also plays loose with classes and interfaces in a way that makes code hard to understand locally. Of course nothing is inevitable, but there’s risk. And the first generation of programmers is usually enthusiastic; any failure is a personal failure,…

Red Herring.com interviews Rod Smith, IBMs vice president of emerging technology: „Q: Which technology is your group currently looking at developing in the next few months? A: Right now, we are looking at PHP [a programming language like Java and XML] in particular—we like it as a technology and community. […] Q: Can you give…

DBFW has „support for record history: You may create two additional columns in your tables (a start-of-validity one and a end-of-validity one), tell the framework of them and then it will handle all modifications as storicized modifications (i.e. the records will not be really deleted, just marked as expired).“

Semapedia.org – The Physical Wikipedia: „Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the best information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space. We do this by combining the physical annotation technology of Semacode with high quality information from Wikipedia.“

Chris Shiflett’s Power PHP Testing lists the various you can write automated tests for PHP software.

Barry McKay at OTN – Persisting PHP5 Objects in Oracle: „Storing objects in your database is not just a gimmick; rather, it is the final piece in the „developing entirely within the object-oriented paradigm“ puzzle. It allows you to analyze, design, develop, and test using all the techniques that are so popular in traditional, large-scale,…

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – MVC and web apps: oil and water: „CRUD is defined in the context of databases where what you’re dealing with is sets of information—you need to make a distinction between inserting into the set and updating an existing member of the set. Meanwhile HTTP was designed for access to resources,…

Tim Bray – PHP Calendar Fun: „PHP iCalendar is a good example of the PHP conundrum. It’s ugly, it’s gross, it’s inefficient, but today I have my calendar robustly online and yesterday I didn’t.“

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Access control, monoculture, and accountability: „Geer argues that access control lists — although they’ll remain a vital ingredient of information security — can’t take us where we now must go. The reason is that linear growth in the number of people you authenticate, or the number of resources you control…

Jon Udell – The blog as resume and autobiography: „Most blogs are more personal than professional in the sense I’m defining here. Of those that identify themselves as professional, many are pseudonymous. Of those that use true names, surprisingly few seem to take the approach I envision: narrating the course of a career, articulating its…