Autor: Tim Strehle

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – MarkMail Provides Amazing Search Capabilities: „I love the way MarkMail gives me a bunch of drill-down choices in the UI, and as I choose them, rewrites the command-line in the search box. I’d love to see features like this in my other mail packages. With Mail.app on Mac OS…

Tim Bray – 2008 Prediction 4: PHP Problems: „A big project I’m peripherally involved with needed to include an outward-facing Wiki, and I suggested that MediaWiki was damn good stuff. They put in quite a bit of work and failed to get MW to integrate with the rest of the system. Yes, it’s a good…

„This project [xmlhttprequest] aims to: Deliver standard-compliant (W3C) cross-browser implementation of the XMLHttpRequest object Fix ALL browsers quirks observed in their native XMLHttpRequest object implementations Enable transparent logging of XMLHttpRequest object activity“

Jason Fried – Where did the intranets go?: „When we were still doing client work back in the early 2000s we got a lot of calls about designing intranets. Everyone wanted an intranet. The employees we talked to loved their intranets too—their jobs depended on having access to bits of information, files, forms, etc. that…

M. David Peterson at the O’Reilly XML Blog – Question: Does the URI Length Recommendation of 255 bytes Matter Anymore?: „RFC 2068 is about a week shy of being 11 years old. Is the 255 byte URI length recommendation still applicable? From the client perspective, possibly not. But what about from the proxy perspective? And…

Rick Jelliffe at the O’Reilly XML Blog – XML Schemas: guaranteed non-interoperability as a design methodology?: „Why not? Because, as far as I can make out, the idea that we will all be better off if we pretend that XML Schemas is a unified and whole specification, one size that can fit all, then somehow…

Bruce Eckel – The Mythical 5%: „Usually the things that make or break a project are process and people issues. The way that you work on a day-to-day basis. Who your architects are, who your managers are, and who you are working with on the programming team. How you communicate, and most importantly how you…

Jakob Nielsen – Feature Richness and User Engagement: „Typically, when new prospects first visit your site, you’re simply one of ten sites on the SERP [Search Engine Results Page]. The only way they’ll shortlist your site is if you can convince them in two minutes. Thus, websites should have almost no features: focus on the…

Gloria W. – RESTful Thoughts on a Web 2.0 Python Project: „It helps tremendously to work out the ‘chatter’ between the client and the server in human language before designing it. Here is an example of RESTful chatter between a client inventory application, and it’s corresponding server application: […] The point of the chatter is…

David Greiner – Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered: „In this article that goes hand-in-hand with the release of Emails-Standards.org, David Greiner explains what you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.“