Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Maarten Manders at SitePoint – Using SVN for Web Development: „As our web applications grew and more and more developers started working on them, it became obvious that we needed some kind revision control system to manage our code. As CVS is quite dated and Subversion (SVN) introduced some handy features (atomic transactions, Apache piggybacking,…

Nagios version 2.0 has been released…

Paul Browne – How to avoid losing $199m: „Like houses , projects need good foundations. For IT Projects , the good foundations are sound knowledge of the Business Processes being coded into the system. Changing processes and changing IT systems at the same time is like building on sand.“

Steve Fox at InfoWorld – Mapping IT meltdowns: „IT pros, it seems, put plenty of thought into software and hardware. It’s mismanagement, office politics, and flawed processes that trip them up almost every time.“

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – Blueprint PHP application?: „Given that so many applications have been written in PHP, some extremely successful in terms of popularity, are there any applications you’d be happy to point people at for inspiration? Apps which, despite your personal tastes, you think make a good blueprint for doing PHP?“

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – PHP Security: Dumb Users or Dumb APIs?: „There’s another round of “Is PHP Secure?” debate happening right now. Chris drew attention to it, pointing to a post by Andrew van der Stock (who’s a contributor to OWASP): PHP Insecurity: Failure of Leadership. So the usual denials have been made (see…

Semapedia.org – The Physical Wikipedia: „Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the best information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space. We do this by combining the physical annotation technology of Semacode with high quality information from Wikipedia.“

DBFW has „support for record history: You may create two additional columns in your tables (a start-of-validity one and a end-of-validity one), tell the framework of them and then it will handle all modifications as storicized modifications (i.e. the records will not be really deleted, just marked as expired).“

Red Herring.com interviews Rod Smith, IBMs vice president of emerging technology: „Q: Which technology is your group currently looking at developing in the next few months? A: Right now, we are looking at PHP [a programming language like Java and XML] in particular—we like it as a technology and community. […] Q: Can you give…

Ian Bicking – There’s so much more than Rails: „Ruby doesn’t have Acquisition, but it also plays loose with classes and interfaces in a way that makes code hard to understand locally. Of course nothing is inevitable, but there’s risk. And the first generation of programmers is usually enthusiastic; any failure is a personal failure,…