Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Giles Turnbull at O’Reilly Mac DevCenter – Join the rat pack with PackRat: „What these webapps need are simple-functionality desktop equivalents that allow you to at least view your data, better still edit it too, and then automagically sync themselves with the online version the next time you’re connected.“

Rasmus Lerdorf – The no-framework PHP MVC framework: „So you want to build the next fancy Web 2.0 site? You’ll need some gear. Most likely in the form of a big complex MVC framework with plenty of layers that abstracts away your database, your HTML, your Javascript and in the end your application itself. If…

Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene at ONLamp.com – What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source: „It is rare to find a corporate environment where the project team has anything approaching the level of planning, documentation, or review found in successful open source projects. For some reason, as soon as a budget and a deadline…

Phil Windley reports a talk by Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?: „Engineers should read a book about how the Empire State building was done. Including the demolition of the building on the site before, the Empire State building was built in 11 months by 3000 people. We don’t know how to do this…

John Lim – Why I Like PHP revisited: „In a sense, all the interesting techie stuff in PHP is happening at the C level, in the PHP extensions: in pdo, gd, oci8, mysqli, etc. Everything else, PEAR, Smarty, Drupal, Sympony, ADOdb, PHPLib etc, is just fluff :)“

Stephen O’Grady – Speed is a Feature: „A big part of the equation that is Google is speed, pure and simple. Very low latency performance, delivered from their secret sauce architecture. […] The interesting thing is that speed is not traditionally considered a feature, per se. It’s a design consideration, to be sure, but in…

Joe Gregorio cites: „The core of Lucene Web Service API is primarily based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, with a few extensions. We’ve added the ability to get and set properties of any index or the service itself. For searching, we’ve based our implementation on the OpenSearch 1.1 protocol.“

Eliot Kimber – Getting Started: Who the Hell are You and Why Should I Care What You Think?: „I’ve made more mistakes than most and had my share of successes. I’ve learned a lot of hard lessons. And I’m just arrogant enough to think that my opinion has serious weight (or maybe more than arrogant…

Tim Bray on SOAP/WSDL vs. REST – WS-Angst: „Me, I think the WS-stench of something WS-rotting from the WS-head down is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.“

Jeff Han – Multi-Touch Interaction Research: „While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations.“