Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

David Weiss – A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab: „I’m going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what’s it’s like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I’ll…

Simon St. Laurent at XML.com – The Next Web?: „Developers who craft smart APIs on their servers for use by AJAX-based web pages can then expose those APIs to other developers, getting the benefits of better interfaces for users who use web browsers to consume the data and for users who have their own custom…

Sam Ruby – Trade-offs: „Contrary to what some will lead you to believe, I submit that it is possible for a query to be simultaneously SOAP, REST, RPC, POX, and transmitted using HTTP POST. And all this could be done with or without a WSDL document or an XML schema.“

„Lotus Expeditor software (a release planned for later in 2006) provides client and the corresponding server-side connectors for these capabilities: * Composition. Provides comprehensive universal managed client software for service-oriented architecture (SOA). It can be used to build and deploy composite applications containing components of all types—from Java™ Foundation Class Swing, text terminal, Microsoft Visual…

Nuxeo Core

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die.net – Optimizing Page Load Time: „Instead of relying on the browser to revalidate its cache, if you change an object, change its URL. One simple way to do this for static objects if you have staged pushes is to have the push process create a new directory named by the build number, and teach…

„fluxiom makes it easy to organize and share your digital assets within your company, your colleagues and friends. Manage any kind of file like corporate media assets, marketing materials, product folders, contracts, images, text documents, logos or artwork – you name it.“

Imran Ali – Windows Live Barcode: „I’ve long thought the potential of 2D codes, like QR, Semacode and others, was enormous – but very few handsets are equipped, by default, with the capability to scan codes. Consequently, we see very few codes embedded in online services or the physical world. Microsoft’s move could help to…

Joel Spolsky – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0): „A lot of programmers that you might interview these days are apt to consider recursion, pointers, and even data structures to be a silly implementation detail which has been abstracted away by today’s many happy programming languages. “When was the last time you had to…