Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Nathan Torkington – A Week in the Valley: GData: „There’s a huge move within Google away from SOAP and even REST-style ad hoc APIs and towards GData instead. The big point for me was that GData is just Atom/RSS for reading, Atom Publishing for writing, and A9 stored queries for searching.“

David L. Margulius at InfoWorld – Product management bug is spreading: „Enterprise IT is making a transition from build-to-order (“order taker”) and mass manufacturer (“any color you want as long as it’s black”) to being a service provider responsible for delivering flexible, configurable platforms and applications. The only way to do that is with a…

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld – IM as a unified collaboration platform: „We all know that IM (instant messaging) is a tremendous time-saver, allowing you to make fewer phone calls, answer fewer voice mails, and send and receive fewer e-mails. So when I spoke with Dave Marshak, director of IBM Lotus collaboration technology, on the occasion…

„SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets.“

Simon Phipps – Freedom To Leave: „If „interoperability“ meant „import only“, I’d never feel safe trying new things so market growth and innovation would be inhibited. People who implement open standards like this are smart, because although they allow customers to leave for greener pastures they also allow them to return – I am still…

Toby Ward – The new intranet: wikis and RSS?: „Knowledge is shared and managed every day in every organization – it’s just not managed very well. And effective knowledge management is more than just a plug-and-play off-the-shelf software such as document management – effective knowledge management depends on highly collaborative and sharing employees who are…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Tech careers are on the wrong track: „IT careers require an understanding that the purpose of commercial computer systems is to serve people. Not to serve one another, not to serve database rows or HTTP packets, but to make people glad they’re using their computers instead of grappling with the…

Mario Apicella at InfoWorld – Can a federation tackle the data management puzzle?: „Obviously, data indexing and search are prerequisites to analysis and classification, and handling those processes efficiently is a major requirement. „Anybody can scale to handle billions of documents, but it’s going to take a ton of hardware to do it,“ states Robert…

Geoffrey Wiseman at InfoQ – Real-World Rule Engines: „For many developers, rule engines are buzzwords, or black boxes on an architectural diagram: something to be feared or admired from afar, but not understood. […] Over the course of this article, I’ll be sharing my practical experience with rule engines and with Drools in particular to…

Christopher Jones – Free PHP and Oracle Manual is Available: „The free Underground PHP and Oracle Manual [PDF] is hot off the press.“