Autor: Tim Strehle

Tim Bray – Don’t Invent XML Languages: „Designing XML Languages is hard. It’s boring, political, time-consuming, unglamorous, irritating work. It always takes longer than you think it will, and when you’re finished, there’s always this feeling that you could have done more or should have done less or got some detail essentially wrong.“

„Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that has integrated the open source programming language, PHP, into its development environment. This enables PHP developers to create new content-centric applications and dynamic web pages that access Alfresco.“

„gtd-php is an open source, web-based implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organization system.“

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Innovation puts the blitz on mediocrity: „In 2006, I have little doubt we’ll see the soul of my brand of innovation appear again, which I’ll summarize in a phrase that might make you wince: Never take customers for granted. That’s it. If you adopt that as a mantra, you’ll either…

PHP-OpenDocument Library: „I wrote a small PHP library for manipulating OpenDocument files and have released it under Apache 2.0 License. Its current features are: * Create plain-text Text (.odt) documents. * Create simple Spreadsheet (.ods) document.“

Harry Fuecks – [The sysadmin view on “Why PHP”](http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/01/10/the-sysadmin-view-on-why-php/ „SitePoint Blogs – The sysadmin view on „Why PHP““): „When was the last time you saw a PHP runtime error take down an entire application or web server? […] With PHP it’s very hard for a script to take down the runtime environment—the web server—I’d argue…

„Mdoc is a new auto-documentation tool to create manuals like PHP manual at php.net web site, so in a style common to the PHP community and is very efficient to share your code as APIs.“

Steven Douglas Olson – Document or Perish: „Writing is the technology that brought humans to the next level in advanced technology. Civilizations that prevailed in the past were literate. They could send messages, design things and communicate their ideas through their writings. For every Leonardo da Vinci there are innumerable inventors who carried their ideas…

Karl Vogel at ONLamp.com – Organizing Files: „The problem: the filesystem on my Unix workstation was a mess. I couldn’t find anything without grepping all over creation. About half the time, I’d actually find something useful. Usually I’d get no hits at all, or I’d match something like a compiled binary and end up hosing…

Sean Hull – Oracle Open Source Projects – The Interviews: „This story is really about tinkerers, folks that like to play with technologies, and offer up their creations to everyone. Some end up with serious projects on their hands, and a large following. When Oracle ported to Linux, it was a moment for the tinkerers…