Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

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…

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.“

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – „remove the web developer and the web gets developed“: „One wouldn’t think of Wikipedia as a news site, but it has indeed become one, as users find that they can make the software do what they want, rather than what it (originally) wanted. Ease of use can lead to…

Scott Adams – Outsource the Government: „The Indians who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology are among the smartest people on the planet. And whatever they don’t already know, they can learn while you’re watching American Idol. Yeah, it hurts. But it’s true.“

Tim Bray – Lightroom Fanboy: „First of all, did I mention it’s fast? Second, there’s no Save button. It just takes care of that. And remember, all the edits are deltas, as in non-destructive. It occurs to me to wonder why all software that edits any data in any way whatsoever doesn’t work like this.…

Andrew Savikas at O’Reilly Radar – Yahoo! Open Source CMS Conference: „I saw Alfresco for the first time a year ago, and while I was impressed with their workflow and document management features, I thought their web app was a bit heavyweight for folks used to working directly off of a filesystem (either GUI or…

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Florian Munz – Subversion lokal unter Mac OS X: „Unter OS X Subversion für die lokale Nutzung zu installieren, d.h. ohne Apache/WebDAV-Unterstützung ist eigentlich ganz einfach, wenn man weiß wie es geht :)“ Und dann das Buch: Version Control with Subversion

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