Autor: Tim Strehle

… yes, but which tool to use? b2 http://cafelog.com/ bBlog http://www.bblog.com/ GeekLog http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/ MyPHPblog http://myphpblog.sourceforge.net/ Pivot http://www.pivotlog.net/

This diary has great links to pages which represent persons, places or other entities – lots of similarities to Topic Maps. Jon Udell asks: „What CMS environment would make it easier for Phil to achieve this effect?“ Very good question. I think that would be a Topic Map-driven information system allowing for editing in Wiki…

Some nice ideas in this PHP/MySQL-based content management framework: http://catviz.sourceforge.net/

http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2002/07/118/06.shtml http://www.google.com/apis/ http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=87

Should take a look at Python since O’Reilly has so much on it: http://www.python.org/ http://python.oreilly.com/news/python_success_stories.pdf

Nice Java idea – don’t code a GUI, just define your „Business Logic“ in classes, and the Naked Objects-Framework will create a generic GUI allowing for direct interaction with the classes‘ properties and methods: http://www.nakedobjects.org/introduction.html

… are a lot more fascinating to me than virtual communities are. There’s so many of which I’m already a part of: My family, my church, friends, my neighbourhood, etc. I’d really like (closed) websites for all of them, with chat, forum, photos, family trees!

Good PHPBuilder article: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/barnum20030509.php3

Interesting web server for Windows with PHP support – executes SQL queries (on .mdb files) directly by reading them from the URL and returns CSV/XML (for use in applications which can open HTTP HREFs directly, or for distributed web services): http://badblue.com/helpsql.htm http://badblue.com/prodee.htm

„Friend Of A Friend“ = XML vocabulary for person-to-person relations: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-foaf.html