Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Kurt Cagle – I Think, Therefore I eXist …: „eXist exposes a WebDAV interface that any WebDAV enabled software can use to both retrieve and write content from/to the database. For instance, from Oxygen (my all time favorite XML editor) I can select Open URL, pass the appropriate URL (http://localhost:8080/exist/webdav/db/ on the default) and you…

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Tim Bray – “Publish” Everywhere: „Here’s the Atom dream: A “Publish” button on everything. On every word processor and email reader and web browser and cellphone and PDA and spreadsheet and photo-editor and digicam and outliner and sales-force tracker. Really, everywhere. If it doesn’t have a “Publish” button, it’s broken.“

Nathaniel S. H. Brown – DateBocks, the new, intuitive date input selection for your forms: „We use common terms in english to express how we identify a date coming up, or a date in the past. Such as “Next Tuesday”, “Last Month”, or even as simple as “Friday”. We clearly know which date that identifies,…

Bill Venners interviewed by Chris Adamson at ONJava.com – Ruby the Rival: „I don’t know much about Rails other than that it has been well marketed. The Rails marketeers drummed one message over and over, that Rails helps you build web apps quickly. Everyone has received this message loud and clear. It was a very…

Luke Wroblewski – Refining Data Tables: „After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial…

Eliot Kimber – Office Open XML: Good or Evil?: „Oh, and I hate MS Word with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. I’d sooner chew off my own arm than spend any time actually authoring words in Word. I’ve spent so many years authoring XML that having to deal with $*%&# like doing…

Alan Kay back in 1998 – prototypes vs classes was: Re: Sun’s HotSpot (via M. David Peterson): „The big idea is „messaging“ — that is what the kernal of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it’s something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase). The Japanese have a small word — ma —…

„XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and browser-based content management systems (IE/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/Safari/Netscape). The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, uses CSS for formatting, and ensures the clean separation of content from presentation. Markup generated by XStandard meets the most demanding accessibility requirements. The editor’s cool features include drag &…

Thomas Claburn at InformationWeek – Google Revealed: The IT Strategy That Makes It Work: „Lots of small, short-lived projects mean traditional project management software based on task lists isn’t right for Google. For one thing, techies aren’t very good at cataloging how they spend their hours. What they are good at, it turns out, is…