Autor: Tim Strehle

John Lim – Baking Data with ADOdb and Oracle: „I suspect that some open source advocates will be puzzled by my praising Oracle. Well my work involves pushing around massive amounts of data around. The cost of using a commercial database is only a fraction of the total software cost. People say that open source…

Derek Sivers – Award for beautiful coding: David Heinemeier Hansson: „Go download, install, and run Instiki. (If you don’t have Ruby 1.8.1 installed, it’s worth updating to it just to run Instiki.) After you’re amazed (will take only 1 minute) go to Rails. Watch the 10-minute video. Close your mouth: it’s open. Then go set…

ActiveState’s David Ascher – Dynamic Languages-ready for the next challenges, by design: „The driving forces for the creation of each major dynamic language centered on making tasks easier for people, with raw computer performance a secondary concern. As the language implementations have matured, they have enabled programmers to build very efficient software, but that was…

In a Technetra (India) interview, Rasmus explains where PHP 5’s additional OO features are coming from: „There were a lot of user requests for better Object Orientation in PHP. And a lot of the younger kids coming out of school these days want OO. Everything is Object Oriented. I’m old. In the computer science, Internet…

Paul Graham on Great Hackers: „Productivity varies in any field, but there are few in which it varies so much. The variation between programmers is so great that it becomes a difference in kind. I don’t think this is something intrinsic to programming, though. In every field, technology magnifies differences in productivity. I think what’s…

„The PHP Extension makes it easy to create, edit, and run PHP scripts in Oracle JDeveloper 10g.“

Chapter 8 of the We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs book is a great read.

Economist.com’s tribute to Dennis Ritchie: „Linux is also the true heir of the Unix tradition in the sense that its development process is collaborative. Dr Pike says that the thing he misses most from the 1970s at Bell Labs was the terminal room. Because computers were rare at the time, people did not have them…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Efficiency can be lost on code snobs: „At my local Ace hardware store, circular saws sit near the registers to tempt impulse buyers. When Ace sells you that saw, they’ve also got you for blades, safety glasses, and handy little accessories. But Ace isn’t the only beneficiary in this “sell…

„Vex is an editor for XML documents. The „visual“ part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for „document-style“ XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than „data-style“ XML documents. Vex is released under the…