Autor: Tim Strehle

Subversion’s Garrett Rooney on ONLamp.com – Preserving Backward Compatibility: „The first kind of compatibility most people think about is API compatibility. […] Second is Application Binary Interface, or ABI, compatibility. […] If your program communicates over a network, it has to deal with a third form of compatibility, client-server protocol compatibility. […] Finally, if your…

Jamie Zawinski on Novell’s Hula: „If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. When words like „groupware“ and „enterprise“ start getting tossed around, you’re doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some…

Tim Bray thinks that what I studied is worth a lot; he calls it Real Information Retrieval – thanks 🙂 „It dawned on me that now I work for a big company, and big companies have libraries, and sure enough, we do. It has a nice site on the Intranet where you can submit research…

Jon Udell on InfoWorld – Let’s hear it for screencasting: „I’m now using screencasts – that is, narrated movies of software in action – to showcase application tips, capture and publish product demonstrations, and even make short documentaries. And I’m seeing others around the Net starting to do the same.“

Nikita Ogievetsky’s (Cogitech, Inc.) and Terry Badger’s (Eastman Kodak Company) XML Europe 2003 presentation on Topic Map Solutions for Kodak Digital Camera Accessories: „This presentation shows how Topic Map based solutions are used to build, organize and maintain Kodak digital cameras accessories web site. The chosen approach did not require software investment. Excel, an available…

Peter-Paul Koch on A List Apart – JavaScript Triggers: „CSS triggers are well known. The class and id attributes allow you to fully control the presentation of your websites. […] The behavior layer should function in exactly the same way. We should separate behavior and structure by discarding inline event handlers like onmouseover=“switchImages(‚fearful‘,6,false)“. Instead, as…

Graham Moore, Kal Ahmed: „Topic Map Relational Query Language [PDF] (TMRQL) has been designed in order to provide a sound foundation for querying topics maps. To this end it does not define an entire new language but instead presents a core set of abstract relational views. The relational model provides a firm foundation for the…

PHP Security Consortium: The PHP Security Guide.

„With Serna, general users and professional authors alike can create and maintain complex XML documents. With minimal training, most people will find it as easy to use as a conventional word processor. […] Serna is unique because it allows users to edit documents in print appearance , thereby greatly simplifying and shortening the document maintenance…

Paul Graham – What You’ll Wish You’d Known, written as a talk for a high school: „Now I know a number of people who do great work, and it’s the same with all of them. They have little discipline. They’re all terrible procrastinators and find it almost impossible to make themselves do anything they’re not…