Autor: Tim Strehle

Zend: „Zend’s PHP survey is a market snapshot of the PHP community. Over 10,000 respondents to the survey which was posted in June 2003.“ Seems like few participants actually sell and deploy software written in PHP, as only 11% have applications hosted by their clients. And only another 11% have an application with more than…

A nice example of Topic Map browsing, made by Bond University, Australia.

Jon Udell doing advocacy for Test-driven development… Ward Cunningham citation: „When somebody says this is test-first code, you believe that it’s going to be more robust than otherwise. And if you do run into a limitation, it’s more likely that you can get past it. Test-first means that it’s clear what the code does, and…

Tim Bray on Metadata: „If You Collect Metadata By Hand The most important lesson I’ve learned, is: Don’t try to collect too much. You might, just might, get people, when they’re interacting with your intranet, to label their information by project and title; but more than a couple of fields and people will just bypass…

Jon Udell: „As new species of XML documents are emerging, vendors are unveiling increased RDBMS support for XML.“

Jakob Nielsen: „Spare your users the misery of being dumped into PDF files without warning. Create special gateway pages that summarize the contents of big documents and guide users gently into the PDF morass.“

Lambda the Ultimate USENIX2003: „We would like to „cd /lib“ and descend into the „directory“ that contains only library files, grouped into subdirectories „root“, „usr“, „local“. We would like to „cd /bin|/sbin“ and get to the root of the „filesystem tree“ that contains only executable files (again, grouped into „subdirectories“). We may even do „cd…

A very nice and personal weblog on using the Tablet PC. What Is New has lots of practical information on Tablet PCs…

Incremental Blogger: „I finally convinced Bryan to play hooky today and see what would happen if he tried to sight-read a fiddle tune off of my NEC LitePad Tablet PC. We downloaded some music in PDF format off the Internet, and tried using a mouse sitting on the floor as a „footswitch“ for turning pages.“

Tim Bray: „At work, we’ve been putting a lot of time into what used to be called ‚Dynamic HTML‘, i.e. making web pages more dynamic and lively with a variety of Javascript techniques. There’s this one design pattern that keeps turning up, and for those who aren’t already JS hacks, it may be worth stealing.…