Autor: Tim Strehle

Greg Wilson at ONLamp.com – Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks: „Every day, all over the world, programmers have to recycle legacy data, translate from one vendor’s proprietary format into another’s, check configuration files, and yank data out of web server logs. This kind of programming is usually called data crunching, and while it’s…

„Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!“

So it’s PHP’s 10th birthday today, and a lot of people wrote about their story with PHP; so here’s mine. It’s not that interesting as I’m a mere user of PHP (having contributed nothing but a few bug reports): In 1998, a friend showed me the php.net homepage – we were impressed by PHP3’s functionality…

Sebastian Bergmann – Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5 [German] – Objektorientierung. Entwurfsmuster. Modellierung. Fortgeschrittene Datenbankprogrammierung: „Text und Abbildungen dieser HTML-Dateien sind der Inhalt des Buchs ‚Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP 5′“.

The Form Assembly: „The Form Builder is a tool for creating standard compliant web forms. It integrates the wForms extension and relies on a set of technologies like XML, XMLHttpRequest, XSLT and DOM (a.k.a Ajax) to provide a seamless single-screen experience.“

Peter Van Dijck at XML.com – Introduction to XFML: „XFML is a simple XML format for exchanging metadata in the form of faceted hierarchies, sometimes called taxonomies. Its basic building blocks are topics, also called categories. XFML won’t solve all your metadata needs. It’s focused on interchanging faceted classification and indexing data.“

Björn Schotte – AJAX: redesign your PHP applications? „First of all, XMLHttpRequest has a problem: in InternetExplorer, it doesn’t work without ActiveX. This makes it pretty useless when being used in companies like HypoVereinsbank or Siemens (both are customers we’re working for) where ActiveX has been disabled for security reasons. Second, the fixed costs for…

ZDnet.com – IBM: ‚LAMP‘ users need to grow up: „‚If you look at the history of LAMP development, they’re really primative tools … the so-called good enough model. The type of businesses being created around those particular business models are essentially going to have to grow up at some point. I believe that in the…

Dave Megginson – Problem-first design: „How many developers do you know who complain about working nights and weekends manually entering connection information for thousands of publicly available web services? Given that there are, at most, a few dozen sites offering web services over the public web (and that’s web services in the most general sense,…

Andy Lester – What’s the worst bug you’ve ever written?: „Then, after the candidate tells me the story of the terrible bug, I ask the crucial follow-up: „What did you learn? What did you change about yourself?“ The reaction is often telling, and I can easily see how self-aware she is. If the answer is…