Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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,…

„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.“