Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Mike Morgan – Scalable PHP with APC, memcached and LVS (Part 2): „In our journey with addons.mozilla.org (AMO) we made some interesting group decisions a year ago that we regretted later: Smarty PEAR::DB PEAR::DB was unnecessarily large, and Smarty is just not worth it — it confuses the issue and redoes things PHP is already…

SphinxGenerally, 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 source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML…

Pete Lacey – The S stands for Simple: „SOAP Guy: On the bright side, nobody uses the Doc/Lit style anymore. In order to get transport independence back we’re all using wrapped-doc/lit now. Doesn’t that sound cool: wrapped-doc/lit? Developer: What’s that? SG: Well, it’s just like Doc/Lit, but you take the whole message and wrap it…

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Jon Udell – Tantalizing hints of the Knowledge Navigator: „It’s all compelling stuff, but there’s something about Avi Bryant’s [Dabble DB] maneuver that shouts Knowledge Navigator. In this 90-second excerpt from the screencast, you can see how Avi hoists data right out of a web page and weaves it into a structured view. So natural,…

Jenn Riley – More structured metadata: „I often encounter people who see my job title (Metadata Librarian) and assume I have an agenda to do away with human cataloging entirely and rely solely on full-text searching and uncontrolled metadata generated by authors and publishers. That’s simply not true; I have no such goal. I am…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Apple Xserve: The final review: „While trends, or rather, the analysts who proclaim them, are pointing to the triumph of software as a service, outsourced applications, consulting, node-locked operating systems and other pay-as-you-go approaches, Apple is piloting a rocket-powered sled in the opposite direction. Apple is going to sell complete…

Sam Ruby – That’s Not Write: „I’ve known for a while that pretty much all the browsers don’t implement document.write when found in the context of XHTML documents — even in the case where both the enclosing document and string are separately well formed.“

Tim Bray – Comparing Frameworks: „Maybe it’s just because I’m a grizzled 25-year veteran, but my feeling is that in the real world in the long term, maintainability is a really really big deal, the biggest of all. Out there in the wild woolly “Web 2.0” world, maybe getting it built quick is all that…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Web apps, just give me the data: „Scraping data off Web pages can be effective, but it’s far from ideal. Although we think of the Web as a rich trove of data, the pickings are depressingly slim if you want to transform or recombine that data. And there’s no good…