Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Nitesh Dhanjani at ONLamp – Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug is a Huge Security Issue: „The Adobe JavaScript execution bug recently discovered is a huge security issue for any organization that serves PDF files via its web servers. […] An attacker could embed malicious JavaScript code to have the cookie value for your Google/GMail session…

Sam Ruby – OpenID for non-SuperUsers: „Based on the results of my Unobtrusive OpenID post, it is quite evident that there is a lot of partial knowledge about OpenID out there. While my knowledge on the subject is far from complete, this post is my attempt to share what I have learned with others. The…

Alex Faaborg – Microformats – Part 3: Introducing Operator: „Today Mozilla Labs is releasing Operator, a microformat detection extension developed by Michael Kaply at IBM. Operator demonstrates the usefulness of semantic information on the Web, in real world scenarios.“

Brian Lozier back in 2003 – Template Engines: „I’m basically advocating a „template engine“ that uses PHP code as it’s native scripting language. I know, this has been done before. When I read about it, I thought simply, „what’s the point?“ After examining my co-worker’s argument and implementing a template system that uses straight PHP…

„IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge, entry-level enterprise search software solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for both employees and customers. Up to 500,000 documents Support for 200+ file types […] Built on Apache Lucene Open URL-based APIs (REST)“

Mark Baker – Validation considered harmful: „A good rule of thumb in document design is to avoid making assumptions about what won’t be there in the future, and a rule of thumb for software is to defer checking extension fields or values until you can’t any longer. On the Web, you need to be able…

„yEd is a very powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language. It can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks.“ (Via Norbert Ehreke.)

Eliot Kimber – Adobe MARS: Looks Interesting: „MARS is an XML-based format that is intended as a functional replacement for PDF. It’s not really accurate to call it an XML version of PDF because it’s not a simple transliteration of PDF into tags (which could be done easily enough) but a ground-up exercise in designing…

Joel Spolsky – Simplicity: „Donald Norman concludes that simplicity is overrated. […] I think it is a misattribution to say, for example, that the iPod is successful because it lacks features. If you start to believe that, you’ll believe, among other things, that you should take out features to increase your product’s success. With six…

Jon Udell – A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft: „For those of us in the club, it’s a golden age. With computers and networks and information systems we can invent new things almost as fast as we can think them up. But we’re leaving a lot of folks behind. And…