Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

  • Giving the user control over accesskeys

    Roger Johansson – Giving the user control over accesskeys: „The normal way for a website to define a shortcut key is to use the accesskey attribute on an element that may have such an attribute, specifying a character that becomes the shortcut key in combination with one or more other keys as implemented by the…

  • How to configure a low-cost load-balanced LAMP cluster

    Keith Winston at Linux.com – How to configure a low-cost load-balanced LAMP cluster: „The ubiquitous Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python (LAMP) combination powers many interactive Web sites and projects. It’s not at all unusual for demand to exceed the capacity of a single LAMP-powered server over time. You can take load off by moving your…

  • Automatic feed enclosure download for backups?

    „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…

  • The Development Abstraction Layer

    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

    „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.“

  • Cool ADOdb Applications

    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.“

  • Digg PHP’s Scalability and Performance

    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…

  • Reinventing the intranet

    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

    „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…

  • Doc Searls: Business as Morality

    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.“