Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld – Is IT on the rise again?: „In the old days, a company had to adjust its business processes to the packaged application. Now, due to SOA, a company can adjust the applications or services to the business processes they want. Along with this reversal comes the need for IT staffers…

Scott Adams – Sunday Blogging!: „No matter how much news I absorb, I am always left with some important questions of context that seem conspicuously unanswered. […] My complaint is that these things should be included prominently in the news so the ignorant and lazy viewer such as me receives the right context without working…

Curtis Poe – Building Large Systems: „OK, your code is well-tested. Your code is better designed. You have intuitive APIs that anyone can use. Most processes are automated to remove bug-prone grunt work. You’re well on your way to making a system that’s easy to use, refactor, and extend. But you’ve paid a price. You’ve…

Crazy Egg: „Get a clear picture of where your visitors are clicking and enhance your site’s results.“ (Via Ryan Eby.)

Steve Yegge – Good Agile, Bad Agile: „With a priority queue, you have a dumping-ground for any and all ideas (and bugs) that people suggest as the project unfolds. No engineer is ever idle, unless the queue is empty, which by definition means the project has launched. Tasks can be suspended and resumed simply by…

Joseph Scott – AJAX Edit In Place (EIP) With Prototype (see also related blog entries).

Erik Hatcher – Lucene Summit: „I really found the Collex interface concept to be very interesting. Everything is a contraint or limit and you can easily add or invert the contraint. It’s also easy to add things to a personal collection and parts of the personal collection then become facets/contraints themselves. He’s really using all…

„The goal of Varnish is to be a very fast, stable and effective light-weight HTTP accelerator daemon, by using modern and effective technologies. […] When we set out to design and implement a high-performance HTTP accelerator about a year ago, we knew that we could improve on the state of the art, but we did…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Watching out for our own security: „Desktop and server operating systems know, and can report, when you’ve logged in and what you’ve been doing. True, a savvy impersonator can erase her footsteps, but if you’re motivated to look, there’s a decent chance you can detect an intrusion. Applications and services…

Ola Bini – Rails, Databases, ActiveRecord and the path towards damnation: „Actually, the worst part with MySQL is that ActiveRecord have been designed based on it. […] It is incredibly hard to get other databases working with Rails, and even if you do get them working, it will be slow. Really slow. Take Oracle. Oracle…