Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

„What CouchDb is: * A stand-alone document store, accessible via XML REST. * Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space. * Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution. * Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine with a simplified formula query language. The CouchDb data model was partially…

Kevin Quiggle and Mike Whitton at Linux.com – A geo-located photo album in five easy pieces: „Open standards, and openness in general, enables people to combine a variety of technologies in new and interesting ways. For example, using a camera with Exif support, a GPS receiver, the Google Maps API, and Perl, PHP and JavaScript,…

Jon Udell – A new breed of highly-available serverless applications: „Bill Seitz alerted me to one of those footpaths the other day: Les Orchard’s S3-backed wiki. Outstandingly cool! For those who have not followed the various plot threads closely, this is an evolution of the idea of the serverless wiki. […] Les has substituted Amazon’s…

Tim O’Reilly cites a NY Times article – When Amateurs Roamed the Earth: „Before box cameras became universal a century or so ago, people drew for pleasure but also because it was the best way to preserve a cherished sight, a memory, just as people played an instrument or sang if they wanted to hear…

W. Eliot Kimber – XML Content Management the Dr. Macro Way: Simple Is Good: „The key lessons I took away from this experience and that drive all my thinking about content management are: 1. Manage the XML source as versioned storage objects 2. Do all semantic processing, including link managing, metadata indexing, etc. as separate…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Application UI goes back to basics: „As the new generation of so-called rich Internet clients arrives, let’s be careful what kind of richness we wish for. We don’t need Web recreations of the feature-bloated monsters that our office suites became. What we need instead, and what’s starting to appear, is…

Tim Bray – No Database!?: „I like the semantics of the Unix filesystem, and I also really like the fact that whether you’re talking ufs, ext3, zfs, or whatever, this is some of the world’s most thoroughly-debugged and battle-hardened code. Also, most modern operating systems are really quite clever at noticing when part of the…

Robert Cooper – Why I Hate Microformats: „Yay, you have an iCal microformat in your page. You can use Trails, now to stick it right into your Google calendar. Neat. The problem is, this is a serious abuse of HTML. The way you SHOULD have done this is: <html:div xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/“> <vevent> <dtstart>20060501</dtstart><html:abbr>May 1</html:abbr> … Then…

Tim Bray – The Databox: „Occasionally, one of the disks might fail. When this happens, you won’t lose any data, but a red light on the Databox will start flashing, and it will send mail to a few designated addresses. When this happens, it’s exactly like when your laser printer starts saying “You need to…

Nathan Torkington – A Week in the Valley: Ning: „It’s just like Rails in the sense that it makes it easy to build a web app. Rails puts „hello world“ one commandline away. Ning puts a full real big app one click away. Rails is a framework built around conventions. Ning is a set of…