Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

“Dabble combines the best of group spreadsheets, custom databases, and intranet web applications into a new way to manage and share your information online.”

Richard Davey – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: “The ease of developing with PHP has lead to the creation of this script gold mine, and while it can be a wonder to explore there are many factors you should take into consideration before going on a downloading frenzy. Will the script you are…

“Wikidata is a proposed wiki-like database for various types of content. This project as proposed here requires significant changes to the software (or possibly a completely new software) but has the potential to centrally store and manage data from all Wikimedia projects, and to radically expand the range of content that can be built using…

chromatic – Maybe it’s Not Just Ruby on Rails: “In my mind, the issue isn’t “Ruby on Rails is more flexible and capable than standard J2EE or .NET for any project under a (very high) threshold of complexity“. The real point is that the simplicity, flexibility, and abstraction possibilities offered by dynamic languages and well-designed…

Tim Bray – Wikipedia Notes: “As of today, there are 124 servers, fairly heterogeneous, although these days they’ve pretty well standardized on dual-Opteron boxes. The MediaWiki software is PHP-based, mostly running on Fedora; I wonder if this is the world’s largest-scale PHP deployment, or would Yahoo top that? They get a pretty good hit rate…

“Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browsers, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. […] Installed with your application webserver, Selenium automatically deploys it’s JavaScript automation engine – the Browser Bot – to your browser…

Paul Prescod – Reinventing Email using REST: “As an educational tool, this article will describe how to re-engineer a familiar application, email, as a Web Service using HTTP and the principles of Web Architecture and REpresentational State Transfer.”

John Allspaw (Flickr) has nice presentation slides titled Hardware Layouts for LAMP Installations [Powerpoint], talking about hardware requirements, MySQL load balancing and caching for large-scale LAMP installations.

Oliver Rist at InfoWorld – Preview: Windows Workflow Foundation: “WWF creates a class of application that is rarely seen except when created through extraordinary effort: A distributed user-facing application. From a developer’s perspective, WWF is a toolbox of abstractions for workflow-related activities such as receiving and sending Web services calls, taking conditional branches from an…

Karl Fogel: “Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. Producing Open Source Software is available in bookstores, and you can browse or download it here.”