Autor: Tim Strehle

As Tim Bray puts it: “There are lots of perfectly-legal reasons to want privacy. If you act all the time in a way that sensibly preserves yours, when one of those legal reasons becomes important you suddenly won’t be acting different in an attention-catching way.” Back in 2011, I already created an OpenPGP key, then…

Jonas Öberg – Developer’s corner: A distributed metadata registry: “Anyone should be able to run their own registry for their own works or works in which they have an interest. […] Standards such as ccREL provide a way in which a user can look up the rights metadata by visiting a URL associated with the…

Steve Pepper started a (lengthy) discussion in the LinkedIn Topic Maps Community group – If we were to redesign Topic Maps based on what we have learnt in the last decade, what would we do differently? Since LinkedIn groups are closed, I’m posting my comment here as well, in response to proposals to replace occurrences…

Last week I wrote on Twitter: “Testing my theory that structured data exchange between apps/parties is best done in #XHTML+#RDFa. Human browseable & usable w/ XSLT, XPath.” This is the long version of that tweet: As a developer in the enterprise DAM software business, I’ve been doing a lot of integration work – with news…

Laurence Hart – Box Isn’t Disrupting Because of the Cloud: “Box is disrupting because they focus on the people using the application. SaaS is the the disruptive delivery mechanism that enables the spread of their solution. All IT vendors are being disrupted in this fashion, not just Content Management. Ease-of-use is driving adoption in a…

In Web application development, I’m seeing a trend towards reusable components for building the user interface. The idea isn’t new (see Mashups, Portlets, Web Parts or jQuery Plugins): Make it easy to reuse ready-made UI elements built by different developers (e.g. a form field with autocomplete functionality, a date picker, a tree view, a dialog)…