Autor: Tim Strehle

Tim Bray – mod_atom: „This is a stripped-down implementation of the server side of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an Apache module, implemented in C.“

37signals Product Blog – Insert „Update“ tag graphic in Basecamp posts: „When you’re typing a message/comment, just put „[UPDATE]“ in there. […] Basecamp turns your update text into a little tag graphic.“

Sebastian Bergmann – Slides from eZ Conference: „ezcWorkflow Reusable workflow engine component Part of the ez Components – Version 1.0 will be part of the ez Components 2007.1 release Developed as part of my Diploma Thesis“ See also the Tutorial.

Moritz Stefaner – Elastic lists: „Elastic lists enhance traditional facet browsing approaches by visualizing relative proportions (weights) of metadata values by size visualizing unusualness of a metadata weight by brightness and animated filtering transitions.“ (Via Ryan Eby.)

Tim Bray – Verschärfte Vernehmung: „Andrew Sullivan points out prior use of the term “Enhanced Interrogation”, promoted not only by the malevolent thickheads of the Bush administration but by most of the Republican candidates for President; prior use, that is, by the Gestapo. Meanwhile Dick Cheney argues that the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution…

Patrick Mueller – ETags are not a panacea: „ETags and Last-Modified processing is something you ought to do, if you can afford it, because it does allow for some optimization in your client / server transactions. To be clear, the optimization is that the server doesn’t have to send the content it would have sent…

„DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1.“ See also: DRBD for MySQL

Ryan Campbell – The Underbelly of a Web App: „Since launch, development time now comes in at around 80% (20% goes to support), and only about half of that time is spent implementing features that our users actually see. Here are some of the tasks that aren’t always thought about when making an application, but…

Dmitri Popov at Linux.com – Turning OpenOffice.org into a document conversion tool: „JODConverter can help you to unleash OpenOffice.org’s file conversion capabilities. To be able to use OpenOffice.org as a conversion engine, you have to start it as a service. This means launching it without its GUI and making it listen for incoming connections on…

Jon Udell – Tagging is declarative programming for everybody: „Among other things, tagging may become to ordinary folks what attributes are becoming to programmers: a language that doesn’t just describe things, but also invokes and coordinates behaviors.“