Autor: Tim Strehle

„Light Appliances is a system of information appliances to give access to internet communication and media to people otherwise unable to do so, without using the PC. The system is composed of buttonless appliances, each one dedicated to one specific function like email, voice over internet, video call and internet TV. […] Imagine a person…

At ONLamp.com, Daniel H. Steinberg summarizes Adam Bosworth’s keynote at the MySQL Users Conference 2005: „Adam Bosworth suggested that we „do for information what HTTP did for user interface.“ […] As a result of a simple, sloppy, standards-based, scalable platform, we have information at our fingertips from Google, Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce. Bosworth’s own company,…

Diabolic Crab – HTTP response splitting: „These kind of attacks are generally carried out in web applications by injecting malicious or unexpected charecters in user input which is then used for a 302 Redirect, in the Location or Set-Cookie header. […] To avoid such HTTP Splitting vulnerabilities parse all user input for CR LF rn…

„microformats are: * a way of thinking about data * design principles for formats * adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns * highly correlated with semantic xhtml, AKA the real world semantics, AKA lowercase semantic web, AKA lossless XHTML“ Take a look at the hCalendar example.

Sam Ruby points to IBM’s confession (and recommends PHP and other technologies): „Application development using IBM programming models and tools is untenably complex. The Research Division’s new Services and Software strategy includes a strong focus on radical simplification. […] Over 70 people in IBM worldwide are currently participating in an effort to define the problem,…

Tim Bray – Still Needs Measuring: „Except for, during the night, the guys from Microsoft went around, erased Netscape from all the computers, and installed Internet Explorer. I have some perspective now, but at the time I literally had to go outside the conference and sit down away from everybody, because I was afraid I’d…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Styles of Web application intermediation: „Consider a purchase order represented as an XML document and governed by a policy that requires schema validity. We can enforce that policy either on the wire or on the desktop. One way buys you application-independent consistency. The other way lets you tailor your users‘…

Jon Udell – Sufficiently simple technology: „When I ran into trouble with Rubric, and couldn’t find the SQL INSERT INTO statement anywhere in the code, I knew I’d have to learn about Class::DBI in order to proceed. Result: I punted. Scuttle is written in PHP, and doesn’t use any such abstraction layer. When I ran…

John Lim – PHP’s lucky number 4: „Last week, I downloaded PHP 5.0.4. I’ve not been sufficiently impressed with previous versions of PHP5 to actually recommend its use. PHP 5.0.4 is the first version of PHP 5 that I would consider sufficiently stable for production use; PHP 5.0.4 finally passes most of the same Q&A…

Paul Graham – Copper and Tin: „The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out. But that’s something you can learn quickly. […] And compared to the sort of problems hackers are used to solving, giving customers what they want is easy. Anyone who can…