Autor: Tim Strehle

Rick Jelliffe: „At the moment, the web uses an ad hoc mix of defaults (ASCII for pre-90s standards, ISO 8859-1 for early 90s standards, UTF-8 for recent standards), out-of-data headers (such as MIME headers), voluntary in-data signals (such as HTML’s meta tag), magic numbers (such as XML’s encoding header), browser and server settings, hidden attributes…

Adam Trachtenberg at ONLamp.com: „This article shows how to use SimpleXML to read an XML file, parse the results into a useful form, and query the document with XPath. I use RSS for the examples, since some versions of RSS are nice and easy. Then there’s RSS 1.0. It uses RDF, multiple namespaces, and defines…

To do: Test apd, the advanced PHP debugger. Here’s a nice article on using APD: PHP Freaks: Profiling PHP’s Performance

Sounds like something I should check out: „XSH is a fast and powerfull command-line XML editor. It may be used to query and modify XML documents. XSH may be used either interactivelly or for off-line processing (like bash). XPath expressions are used to select parts of XML document to be processed.“

I never thought of it this way, but of course Tim Bray is right in saying that There’s No Such Thing as a Web Site: „The technology that makes the Web go doesn’t have any built-in notion of a „site“ or a „home page“, even though that’s how people think about things.“ Here’s his follow-up…

Jon Udell struggles with Java APIs – I agree that dynamic languages (Python and PHP) are just so much easier to use: „This weekend, I was working with the Java API to Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB XML, and it felt like one of those bad dreams in which you’re slogging through molasses toward an ever-receding goal.…

Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution: Don’t check your email all the time. Don’t use „reply to all“ when responding to email. Write informative subject lines for your email messages. Create a special email address for personal messages and newsletters. Write short. Avoid IM unless real-time interaction will truly add value to…

Still wondering what’s the best way to read weblogs and news. Today, it’s hard to find a website that doesn’t provide a RSS feed (although I’m missing one on entwickler.com), so I just have to choose the right software that lets me read that feed. Sounds easy? I’m currently testing FeedDemon, which is great Windows…

It’s been some time since my experiments with OpenLDAP… Now at ONLamp.com, I found Dustin Puryear’s nice „getting started with LDAP“ article: „There has been a lot of buzz in the past few years about using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for centralizing system and network information, providing cross-platform user account databases, and even…

Data File Metaformats is a great chapter of Eric Steven Raymond’s The Art of Unix Programming book. It explains the history and pros and cons of text-based data file formats like CSV, RFC 822, XML, and INI.