Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Luke A. Kanies at O’Reilly Sysadmin – Why Isn’t System Administration Evolving?: „Imagine the best books on development only covering how to write code, and skipping over all the hard bits, like design or testing. Now imagine there only being about four books on development. Ouch. Welcome to my world. I’ve said it many times:…

„Zend Studio 5.5 is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available for professional developers that encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle.“ See also: Peter Manis at Linux.com – Increase PHP programming productivity with Zend Studio.

Obie Fernandez – Some of My Software Opinions: „The best way to keep developers motivated and productive is to keep them focused on delivering business value.“

Bruce Eckel – Hybridizing Java: „It’s not impossible to build GUI applications with Java, but it’s been 10 years and there are still installation hiccups with applets, Java WebStart, and regular applications. After 10 years, people don’t trust it anymore. If it’s not there after 10 years, then I’m going to go out on a…

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Smashing Magazine – 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without: „Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we ,…

Adam Pash – A guide for switching to a Mac: „When I bought my first Mac a few short months ago, it took a while to figure out how to do all the stuff I already knew how to do on my PC. While it’s my job to spend time figuring that sort of thing…

„IBM Lotus Quickr will provide ready-to-use team places where team members — inside or outside the firewall — can share information and collaborate on projects online. […] Users can access content in Lotus Quickr right from their familiar Microsoft Windows desktop. They simply drag documents from their C-drive folders to personal or shared Lotus Quickr…

„Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common „metadata“ properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. When installed, a new „Photo Info“ item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image fiiles, right-click and choose „Photo Info“ to open the…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – IBM Wants Many Eyes on Visualization: „IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. […] As with swivel, users can upload any data set, but the tools for visualizing and graphing the data are much richer.“