Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Sean McGrath at ITworld.com – The library IS the programming language: „In my opinion, any competent programmer should be able to pick up a new imperative programming language in a couple of days. They are all the same really. Actually, deep down they are in fact totally the same. However, it is not reasonable to…

On the W3C QA Weblog – Content Negotiation: why it is useful, and how to make it work: „A negotiation algorithm trusting a cookie showing that the user has chosen a language different than the one negotiated based on its Accept-Language: header information, and defaulting to Accept-based negotiation in the absence of such a cookie,…

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – A pro-PHP Rant: „Meanwhile, in these days of long tail enthusiasm, other than PHP, you don’t get to hear much about when stuff sucks. Put specifically, don’t bring me your FastCGI unless you’re providing free SMS to go with it, so I can alert myself when it goes down.“

Graham Hamilton – Raving about Java EE 5: „For Java EE 5 we had some wide ranging goals: * Eliminate common boilerplate. If millions of developers need to type something, it had better be both useful and necessary. * Focus in on „Plain Old Java Objects“ (POJOs). In particular, get rid of unnecessary interfaces and…

Adam Kalsey – Versioning REST: „One thing I dislike about URL schemes for versioning a web services resource is it feels decidedly un-RESTful. The URL of a resource shouldn’t change simply because the format of that resource’s representation does. […] In Tagyu, I’ve going to accomplish this by placing a <versions/> element in the XML…

François Nonnenmacher – On Java: „In the past height years, while running my company web platform, I’ve eliminated two major things: Microsoft and Java, the two over which I’ve lost sleep. The big winner is LAMP with P as in PHP, Python and Perl. The new kid on the block is Ruby on Rails, though…

Simon Willison – Easier form validation with PHP: „FormML (for want of a better name) is never passed to the browser; instead it is processed by my PHP FormProcessor class before being displayed. This class strips out all of the FormML tags, and also applies logic to the rest of the form based on the…

Demian Turner cites Fred Brooks‘ book The Mythical Man-Month – Why is programming fun?: „Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media…

Ben Hunt – Current style in web design: „I’m glad to say that web design in 2006 is better than ever. […] The examples below (which I’ll roll over time) show excellent modern graphic design technique. They all look good, and are clear and easy to use.“

Tim Bray – On PHP: „I should really buckle down and try writing a PHP app because, at the moment, I have an attitude problem. […] All the PHP code I’ve seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in…