Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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.”

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – Oracle 10g XE and PHP: “In case you missed it, yesterday Oracle announced a free (as in beer) version of their database – Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) – basically a ‘lite’ version – some industry analysis here. Significance of this move aside, more interesting is having a play. Managed…

Adam Bosworth at ACM Queue – Learning from THE WEB: “Successful systems on the Web are bottom-up. They don’t mandate much in a top-down way. Instead, they control themselves through tipping points. For example, Flickr doesn’t tell its users what tags to use for photos. Far from it. Any user can tag any photo with…

Jakob Nielsen – Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes: „Some weblogs are really just private diaries intended only for a handful of family members and close friends. Usability guidelines generally don’t apply to such sites, because the readers‘ prior knowledge and motivation are incomparably greater than those of third-party users. When you want to…

David Weinberger at Wired – Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye.: „As you pass the locked entrances to rooms – caverns, actually – that encompass entire patent-application warehouses and film libraries, you feel like you’re navigating through the brain of a slumbering giant. And there, in one of its farthest recesses,is where the beast stores the…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Managing metadata: „Everyone knows the common definition: Metadata is data about data, a secondary thing that’s separate in some way from the primary thing to which it refers. But that definition begs a series of questions. Is metadata something we derive from data, or assign to it? Does it classify…

„collectd is a small daemon which collects system information every 10 seconds and writes the results in an RRD-file.“

Wez Furlong – Guru – Multiplexing: „People often assume that you need to fork or spawn threads whenever you need to do several things at the same time – and when they realize that PHP doesn’t support threading they move on to something less nice, like perl. The good news is that in the majority…