Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Jon Udell at InfoWorld.com – Making a routine of citizen journalism: „Google Maps and its brethren are frameworks we can use to correlate online data and services with locations in the physical world. GPS, phone, and data networks can supply the locations. We just need to work out a few kinks. Cameras need to know…

Joel Spolsky – Architecture Astronauts Are Back: „When I wrote my original complaint about architecture astronauts more than four years ago, it was P2P this and messaging that. […] Now it’s tagging and folksonomies and syndication, and we’re all supposed to fall in line with the theory that cool new stuff like Google Maps, Wikipedia,…

„VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server.“ „VMTN’s collection of pre-built virtual machines from industry-leading ISV and open source partners simplifies software packaging, distribution, and deployment. Instead…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – The importance of interaction data: „Rather than consulting a dictionary to propose alternatives to misspelled words, Google instead mines its own database for patterns of use. If statistics show that a query for „Boswerth“ is likely to be followed by a query for „Bosworth,“ the search engine will make that…

Mac Geekery – Core Data as a Cheap Database: „Core Data is easy enough non-programmers can handle a basic database with it. No, really, it is. Let’s go through a simple no-code project to log phone calls.“

„The LOGOS Machine translation system is one of the largest and most powerful among the commercial machine translation systems. […] The open source version of LOGOS will be available under the name OpenLogos. […] It is planned to release the OpenLogos code base after final approval by the LOGOS owners, GlobalWare AG, by midst of…

Nathan Torkington – The Zing in Zimbra: „The server platform is the Microsoft Exchange killer we’ve all wanted. There’s an ocean of people who want the Exchange feature set without the Exchange nightmares: administration, performance, and security. The folks at Zimbra have released it as open source, not just the Ajax client and the toolkit…

Kendall Clark – SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web: „RDF is pretty foundational to the Semantic Web, and it’s got a data model, a formal semantics, and a concrete serialization (in XML). What it didn’t have till lately was a standard query language. Imagine relational algebra and RDBMSes without SQL. Pretty hard to imagine.…

Henri Sivonen – HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML: “There seem to be developers who think that well-formedness is awfully hard – if not impossible – to get right when producing XML programmatically and developers who can get it right and wonder why the others are so incompetent. I assume no one…

Peter Norvig – Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years: “Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. […] The conclusion is…