Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

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…