Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Brian Fioca – Digg PHP’s Scalability and Performance: „It turns out that it really is fast and cheap to develop applications in PHP. Most scaling and performance challenges are almost always related to the data layer, and are common across all language platforms. Even as a self-proclaimed PHP evangelist, I was very startled to find…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Reinventing the intranet: „Inside the enterprise, teams, tasks, products, and services define metadata vocabularies that the Internet search giants would kill for. Exploiting those vocabularies to deliver search results that are better than what’s available on the open Web is low-hanging fruit. As we roll out SOAs that route well-formed…

„Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with apps such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more. Onlife then indexes the contents of your shoebox, makes it searchable…

Nathan Torkington cites Doc Searls – Business as Morality: „We can approach everything through one of three moral systems: Morality of self-interest. […] Morality of accounting. […] Morality of generosity. […] I think some of what we see in Web 2.0 […] is the morality of generosity.“

Evan Robinson – Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons: „Workers can maintain productivity more or less indefinitely at 40 hours per five-day workweek. When working longer hours, productivity begins to decline. Somewhere between four days and two months, the gains from additional hours of work are negated by the decline in hourly productivity. […]…

Watts S. Humphrey – Why Big Software Projects Fail: The 12 Key Questions: „The problem is that, with current software practices, the developers do not know where they stand any more than the managers do. The developers know what they are doing, but they do not have personal plans, they do not measure their work,…

John Herren at Zend Developer Zone – Roll Your Own Search Engine with Zend_Search_Lucene: „Zend_Search_Lucene is a php port of the Apache Lucene project, a full-text search engine framework. […] In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Zend_Search_Lucene to index and search some RSS feeds.“

Tim Bray – Styles: Beyond WS and REST: „I think “Web Style” would be a better name than “REST”. […] I think we should take the “Web Services” label into the jailyard, strap on a blindfold, give it a last cigarette, and shoot it. It doesn’t mean much any more, and to the extent that…

W3C – Image Annotation on the Semantic Web: „The goals of this document are (i) to explain what the advantages are of using Semantic Web languages and technologies for the creation, storage, manipulation, interchange and processing of image metadata, and (ii) to provide guidelines for doing so. The document gives a number of use cases…

jonnay – Hi-Rest and Lo-Rest, two broken halves of the tower of Babylon: „All the HTTP conformance in the world wont mean a thing if your application stores client state on the server. You still won’t be RESTful.“