Autor: Tim Strehle

Bruce Byfield at Linux.com – Sun Presenter Console extension is useful but undocumented: „After installation, you will not see any sign of SPC except in the Extension Manager. To use it, open your slide show in OOo Impress and go to Slide Show -> Slide Show Settings in the menu. Under Presentation monitor, select the…

Peter Lowe provides a great list of ad servers for blocking ads: „So, to start blocking ads: find your hosts file download the list of ad servers copy the list of ad servers on the end of your hosts file (see Where’s my hosts file? if you don’t know where it is) restart your browser“

Dan McCreary – XRX and Context Delivery Architecture: „When we create a form dynamically through auto-generation we usually know the id of person who is filling out the form and we can use an XQuery look-up service to see what roles that person has, and what departments, projects and groups they are in. We can…

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Grant Ingersoll at IBM developerWorks – What’s new with Apache Solr: „With the 1.3 release, Solr adds in distributed search capabilities. The application splits up the documents across several machines, commonly referred to as shards by Solr (and others). Each shard contains its own self-contained index, and Solr can coordinate the querying of the indexes…

Robert Passarella at O’Reilly Radar – Rolling Your Own Newsroom: „What I like about Google’s Reader is the ability to tag items and then turn those tags into feeds for friends or inputs to other applications, like Yahoo Pipes. As I started playing with tags and feeds, I realized that you could create a real…

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Tim Bray – Branch Out: „Developers of the world: real deep design skill is rare, but there are a few principles of design and color that, if you follow them, will keep you mostly out of trouble and produce something that may not seduce the viewer’s eye but on the other hand won’t revolt it.…

Tim Bray – Free Software Now: „When business is already hurting, up-front software license fees hurt especially hard, and I just don’t believe that Enterprise Software, as currently priced, has much future, in the near term anyhow. […] The drum that Jonathan has been pounding on ever since I got here about “Monetization at the…

Tim Bray – A Good Time for Agility: „But just because times are tough doesn’t mean we’re going to stop developing projects. It just means we have to be agile about it.“