Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Björn Schotte – Make the download of large files with PHP (and lighty) very easy: „Some days ago I stumbled upon an old entry of Jan in lighty’s life, called „X-Sendfile“. There he explains how to speed up the delivery of (large) files with lighttpd instead of PHP (YES, lighttpd is very fast – for…

Joel Spolsky – Library Apps for Macintosh: „I really want to be able to shelve our books according to their Library of Congress card catalog number. When you do this, books on similar topics tend to wind up near each other on the shelves. This is a very useful feature if you don’t know the…

Elias Torres – WP-APP: Atom Publisher Protocol for WordPress: „Simply drop app.php into your root wordpress install directory and have some Atom/APP fun. If you don’t have wordpress installed, I’ve setup a demo server for you to try it out. First, register to get your own account, since you won’t be able to post/put/delete entries…

„Semantic MediaWiki introduces some additional markup into the wiki-text which allows users to add „semantic annotations“ to the wiki. While this first appears to make things more complex, it can also greatly simplify the structure of the wiki, help users to find more information in less time, and improve the overall quality and consistency of…

„SiteScape Forum ZX lets you choose from a comprehensive range of built-in features like shared calendars, instant messaging, chat, threaded discussions, and team workspaces. Plus ready-to-use workflow automation for everyday tasks, extensive portal support, and much more.“

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John Blyberg – Creating a virtual card catalog: „Ever get nostalgic for the old card catalog? I was lurking on #code4lib and someone dropped a link to some fabulous old catalog cards. That reminded me of an idea Eli Neiburger had to make a flash-based card catalog that you could flip through. Never one to…

„Looking to beef up your application security? Take a look at Novell AppArmor, a Linux application security framework included with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. AppArmor gives you network application security via mandatory access control for programs, protecting against the exploitation of software flaws and compromised systems. AppArmor includes everything you need to provide effective containment…