Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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,…

Barry McKay at OTN – Persisting PHP5 Objects in Oracle: „Storing objects in your database is not just a gimmick; rather, it is the final piece in the „developing entirely within the object-oriented paradigm“ puzzle. It allows you to analyze, design, develop, and test using all the techniques that are so popular in traditional, large-scale,…

Chris Shiflett’s Power PHP Testing lists the various you can write automated tests for PHP software.

Harry Fuecks – [The sysadmin view on “Why PHP”](http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/01/10/the-sysadmin-view-on-why-php/ „SitePoint Blogs – The sysadmin view on „Why PHP““): „When was the last time you saw a PHP runtime error take down an entire application or web server? […] With PHP it’s very hard for a script to take down the runtime environment—the web server—I’d argue…

PHP-OpenDocument Library: „I wrote a small PHP library for manipulating OpenDocument files and have released it under Apache 2.0 License. Its current features are: * Create plain-text Text (.odt) documents. * Create simple Spreadsheet (.ods) document.“

„Mdoc is a new auto-documentation tool to create manuals like PHP manual at php.net web site, so in a style common to the PHP community and is very efficient to share your code as APIs.“

Steven Douglas Olson – Document or Perish: „Writing is the technology that brought humans to the next level in advanced technology. Civilizations that prevailed in the past were literate. They could send messages, design things and communicate their ideas through their writings. For every Leonardo da Vinci there are innumerable inventors who carried their ideas…