Autor: Tim Strehle

Alex Bosworth – 10 Places You Must Use Ajax: „It’s been well over a year now since GMail changed the way everyone thought about web apps. It’s now officially annoying to use web apps that haven’t replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness. Here are places Ajax should now be required in a web…

Harry Fuecks in the WACT Wiki – Handling UTF-8 with PHP: “This page is intended as a reference for functionality PHP provides which can either help with handling UTF-8 or should be regarded as a risk when used in conjunction with UTF-8 encoded strings.”

Mark Nottingham – Leveraging the Web: Caching: “The requirement was to make large-ish PDF files available on the internal network world-wide nearly instantaneously, with access control. An external vendor had quoted a solution; it involved rolling out a pair of Windows NT servers (for redundancy) to each location around the world, each with its own…

“SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, ‘folksonomies’, other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept schemes embedded in glossaries and terminologies. The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), that can be…

“How long will it take you to recover? Will you spend hours finding your way through log files and other IT data? Splunk is the new way to see inside the data center. It’s search software that indexes all your fast moving IT data as it happens.”

Chris Shiflett – The Truth about Sessions: “This article introduces some techniques that can reliably provide statefulness as well as defend against session-based attacks such as impersonation (session hijacking).”

“Prince is a computer program that converts XML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.”

“Alfresco is an open source, open-standards content repository built by the most experienced content management team that includes the co-founder of Documentum.” (Take a look at the tour and the architecture diagram.)

John Lim – The fine art of programming: “Here’s a list of excellent online programming guides that i am compiling.”

Derick Rethans’ minutes of the PHP Developers Meeting in Paris November 11th and 12th, 2005, planning for PHP 6 – some interesting excerpts: 1.1 Unicode on/off modes: “[…] We also discussed whether we should even allow Unicode mode to be turned off as current micro benchmarks show that the Unicode implementations of some of the…