Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

„The date slider is a Flash visualization that Measure Map uses as one way to navigate the site. We are happy to provide a version of this date slider to the public.“

Paul Browne – Watch out Java – Windows Workflow is coming!: „The problem is then that the Business People (who understand the workflow) can’t see how it is implemented in (hidden behind code), while the technical people don’t understand the business process. Workflow (closely related to Rule Engines) aim to solve this problem.“

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Innovation puts the blitz on mediocrity: „In 2006, I have little doubt we’ll see the soul of my brand of innovation appear again, which I’ll summarize in a phrase that might make you wince: Never take customers for granted. That’s it. If you adopt that as a mantra, you’ll either…

„gtd-php is an open source, web-based implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organization system.“

„Alfresco Software Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that has integrated the open source programming language, PHP, into its development environment. This enables PHP developers to create new content-centric applications and dynamic web pages that access Alfresco.“

Tim Bray – Don’t Invent XML Languages: „Designing XML Languages is hard. It’s boring, political, time-consuming, unglamorous, irritating work. It always takes longer than you think it will, and when you’re finished, there’s always this feeling that you could have done more or should have done less or got some detail essentially wrong.“

Jon Udell – The blog as resume and autobiography: „Most blogs are more personal than professional in the sense I’m defining here. Of those that identify themselves as professional, many are pseudonymous. Of those that use true names, surprisingly few seem to take the approach I envision: narrating the course of a career, articulating its…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Access control, monoculture, and accountability: „Geer argues that access control lists — although they’ll remain a vital ingredient of information security — can’t take us where we now must go. The reason is that linear growth in the number of people you authenticate, or the number of resources you control…

Tim Bray – PHP Calendar Fun: „PHP iCalendar is a good example of the PHP conundrum. It’s ugly, it’s gross, it’s inefficient, but today I have my calendar robustly online and yesterday I didn’t.“

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – MVC and web apps: oil and water: „CRUD is defined in the context of databases where what you’re dealing with is sets of information—you need to make a distinction between inserting into the set and updating an existing member of the set. Meanwhile HTTP was designed for access to resources,…