Autor: Tim Strehle

Tom Evslin – Decompiling Programmer-Speak: „Computers have changed; programming languages have changed; but programmer-speak has remained remarkably constant. […] As a CEO or hope-to-be CEO of a technical company, it is essential that you crack the code. Otherwise you will have no hope of knowing when any particular piece of essential development will be done…

Joel Spolsky – Hitting the High Notes: „Style. Happiness. Emotional appeal. These are what make the huge hits, in software products, in movies, and in consumer electronics. And if you don’t get this stuff right you may solve the problem but your product doesn’t become the #1 hit that makes everybody in the company rich…

Mikhail Seliverstov at OTN – Bringing Data Security to PHP Applications: „The application this article discusses relies on Oracle VPD and application context to ensure that the database server is in charge of enforcing the security requirements of our system and to make sure each user receives exactly the number of rows allowed for that…

Michael Jouravlev at TheServerSide.com – Redirect After Post: “ PRG pattern can be rephrased like this: Never show pages in response to POST Always load pages using GET Navigate from POST to GET using REDIRECT Repeat these lines before going to bed. […] Web applications should be resource-centric. They can attain greater presentation flexibility instead…

Almost exactly two years after Fairfaxphotos went live, Fairfax is launching another site I’ve done the PHP programming for, Fairfaxfrontpages. The historical newspaper front pages are fascinating, take a look at Germany’s capitulation in 1945, the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first man on the moon, or the fall of the Berlin wall…

Tim Bray – Atom 1.0: „It’s cooked and ready to serve. There are a couple of IETF process things to do, but this draft is essentially Atom 1.0. Now would be a good time for implementors to roll up their sleeves and go to work.“

„Server2Go allows you to create a working web site or PHP application on a CD-ROM.“

John Lim at Oracle Technology Network – Optimizing PHP and Oracle: „In this first installment in the DeployPHP Series, I’ll discuss this checklist for developing and deploying powerful and scalable PHP applications on Oracle: 1. Choose the right extension API. 2. Know when to fetch and hint. 3. Be smart about binding. 4. Use a…

Chris Shiflett has published nice slides summarizing his PHP Security Briefing [PDF].

Micah Dubinko at XML.com – Life After Ajax?: „Working on a crossword puzzle with ink means two things: you find yourself more conservative, (You wait until you are fairly confident before committing to something.) and when you inevitably make a mistake anyway, it gets messy to patch things up. Software development is the same way.…