Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray – The Real AJAX Upside: „Pretty well all Web-publishing software does lots of templating and dynamic page generation, and pretty well all of it is piggish, stressing out servers (and, to be fair, representing a pretty good business opportunity for my employer). I suspect there’s a huge system-wide optimization waiting out there for…

„Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns.“

„Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in the actual environment that they will run.“

Make sure to take a look at Harry Fuecks‘ presentation slides AJAX@localhost [PDF] if you’re at all interested in AJAX… (Sam Ruby would probably have used the title ‚“Just“ use AJAX‘ instead)!

Steven Johnson in a Discover article (May 2003, p. 28) – Reality Bytes – Imagine if SimCity wasn’t just a game [PDF]: „In a true mirror world, data would be mapped onto recognizable shapes from real life. For instance, to find information on a local hospital, you would locate the building on a computerized map…

„VisitorVille takes a revolutionary visual approach to web analytics. VisitorVille makes data mining simple and accurate, easily performing tasks that are impossible to accomplish using traditional (and dreadfully boring) web analytics solutions. What makes VisitorVille unique is immediately clear: VisitorVille does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but as real people in…

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.“