Autor: Tim Strehle

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…

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…