Autor: Tim Strehle

„PHP/SWF Charts makes the best of both the PHP and SWF worlds. PHP scripts provide integration, and Flash provides the best display quality. Features: * Web charts from dynamic data * Live chart updates without reloading the web page * Clickable charts, and drill-down * Simple and flexible chart generation * Quality Flash graphics including…

Paul Graham – Made in USA: „Systematic“ is the last word I’d use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It’s something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch. In software, paradoxical as it…

„Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from…

Plugging my own OracleEditor.php project: I started it in early 2003, and it’s being downloaded more than 400 times a month (half of these hits coming from search engine bots, I suspect?). The freshmeat project counts 5,030 URL hits and 26 subscriptions. 40 people have e-mailed me so far regarding this script. Not impressive, but…

„The dbacl project consists of a set of lightweight UNIX/POSIX utilities which can be used, either directly or in shell scripts, to classify text documents automatically, according to Bayesian statistical principles.“

Robert Kaye – Language musings: „Having gotten used to Python over the last few months, I found myself cursing Java every time I had to do a format conversion. Why do I have to instantiate a number of objects just to convert from a String to an int? First, I have to convert to an…

Macworld UK – Macworld UK – Simplicity is ’next big thing‘ in IT – Economist: „The Economist Magazine this week has published an IT survey, which declares the single message of simplicity Apple to have preached since its inception as „the next big thing“. „The next thing in technology is not just big but truly…

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview: „Now in Tiger, Cocoa can manage your data objects themselves through the power of Core Data, providing automatic undo/redo support, additional user interface synchronization, and data consistency, correctness, and speed enhancements when it’s time to write to disk. Core Data gives you the ability to create a description…

„Sharedance is a high-performance server that centralize ephemeral key/data pairs on remote hosts, without the overhead and the complexity of an SQL database. It was mainly designed to share caches and sessions between a pool of web servers. Access to a Sharedance server is trivial through a simple PHP API and it is compatible with…

„Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into…