Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

„FeedStation allows you to download enclosures that appear in your NewsGator Online or FeedDemon feeds. “ That’s nice. Sounds like I can automate downloads for any kind of file… Thinking beyond podcasting: I’ve got a couple of applications on the web (like this weblog) for which I can do automated (local) backups (via a shell…

Joel Spolsky – The Development Abstraction Layer: „A programmer is most productive with a quiet private office, a great computer, unlimited beverages, an ambient temperature between 68 and 72 degrees (F), no glare on the screen, a chair that’s so comfortable you don’t feel it, an administrator that brings them their mail and orders manuals…

„Polarion® for Subversion – Software Lifecycle Management for Teams and Enterprises: At last there’s a unified, single-source repository-based, web centric approach to software lifecycle management with just the right level of support for a project team right up to a large enterprise.“

John Lim – Cool ADOdb Applications: „Many cool people are using this database wrapper library for PHP to ensure that their programs are database independent. Here is a list of software applications using ADODB.“

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,…