Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Graham Charters at IBM developerWorks – Using Service Data Objects to construct XML: „The code extract below shows how SDO can be used to load the XML schema and a quotes document and then add a new quote entry to that document.“

Joel Spolsky – Language Wars: „These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful. […] I for one am scared of Ruby…

Interesting article on heise open / TN3 – Dokumentenmanagement mit Open Source [in German]: „Dokumentenmanagement ist mehr als eine Technologie, es ist eine der Königsdisziplinen in der Unternehmensorganisation. Es setzt fachübergreifendes Wissen und ein Gesamtverständnis vom Innenleben der Unternehmen, Organisationen und öffentlichen Verwaltungen voraus. Dokumenten-Management-Systeme (DMS) können ein wichtiges Werkzeug sein, aber nur, wenn sie…

Avi Bryant – The internets are made of tubes: „With Dabble, anyone can now import data from a feed, combine it with data from elsewhere, restructure and filter it as needed, and push it out as another feed so the process can repeat.“

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Linux will get buried: „Imagine that your server room has a bank of USB ports, and that every enterprise application you want to run exists, pre-installed on a stripped, standardized Linux, and in a freeze-dried state, on a flash drive. Plug in a drive, and within a few milliseconds you…

Not having played with PHP 5’s native SOAP extension yet, I did expect it to work smoothly with the most simple application I could think of – querying Google via its SOAP Search API. Well… I first compiled the latest PHP 5.1.6 with –enable-soap and downloaded the Google SOAP Search API developer’s kit which contains…

„Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables „compute“ in the cloud. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. […] Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines…

Rob Walling – Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers: „No one anticipates a catastrophic system failure by looking on the bright side. The best developers I know are experts at finding points of failure. You’ll often hear them quipping „What could possibly go wrong?“ after someone makes a suggestion to handle a critical data…

Tim O’Reilly – Round 2: Dial Tone: „[I]n the 1940’s there was concern that the telephone system was growing so fast that there wouldn’t be enough operators unless AT&T hired every person in America. AT&T solved the problem by creating automated switching systems that, in effect, did turn every person in the world into an…

Jon Udell – Del.icio.us is a database: „Although it’s intuitively obvious to me, I suspect that most people don’t yet appreciate how easily, and powerfully, tagging systems can work as databases for personal (yet shareable) information management. Del.icio.us isn’t simply backed by a database, it can function as a database to which you add (a…