Autor: Tim Strehle

Jesse Robins at O’Reilly Radar – Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!): „In my experience it takes about 80 hours to bootstrap a startup. This generally means installing and configuring an automated infrastructure management system (puppet), version control system (subversion), continuous build and test (frequently cruisecontrol.rb), software deployment (capistrano), monitoring (currently evaluating…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly radar – Web2Summit: Radar Networks Unveils twine.com: „Nova Spivack of Radar Networks plans to unveil the first application built on their semantic web platform, twine, a new kind of personal and group information manager. I’ve only seen a demo, and haven’t had a chance to play with it hands-on or load…

Ryan Singer – Ask 37signals: What about research, interviews, and documentation?: „It’s like a conversation. You don’t sit down at the cafe, listen to your friend for two hours straight, and then talk for two hours straight. You take turns, constantly going back and forth, and the discussion finds its way. Of course, you might…

„The Squish for Web edition enables testing HTML-based Web and Web 2.0 (Ajax) applications in different web browsers running on different platforms. Squish for Web is, unlike many available web testing tools, not restricted to a single web browser or platform. Squish for Web supports running and recording tests for web applications in Microsoft Internet…

Jason R. Briggs at ONLamp.com – LAMP and the Spread Toolkit: „I don’t believe it makes a lot of sense to receive messages in a PHP app (which is not to say in certain circumstances it might not be necessary, just that I’d prefer otherwise). So, from a design perspective in a multi-language environment, while…

Nitesh Dhanjani – Yahoo! Susceptible to Cross Site Request Forgery (XSRF) Attacks: „It is possible for malicious sites to add or delete arbitrary Yahoo! calendar entries. The following HTML on a malicious site will add a Task and Event to the victim’s Yahoo! calendar.“

Jason Fried – Ask 37signals: Is it really the number of features that matter?: „It’s not so much about consciously saying “we have three too many features here” it’s about saying “let’s solve most of this problem with less code and simpler design.” If we need to solve more of the problem later we can,…

„rBuilder is the first and only development tool that simplifies and automates the creation of software appliances. rBuilder combines powerful features with innovative packaging techniques to yield a repeatable appliance creation process.“

„Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. […] Generally, it’s a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection…

Peter Zaitsev – APC or Memcached: „APC Cache (Eaccelerator and other similar caches) is Fast but it is not distributed so you’re wasting cache and reducing possible hit rate by caching things locally if you have many web servers. MemcacheD is relatively slow but distributed and so you do not waste memory by caching same…