Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Paul Graham – How to Start a Startup: „In technology, the low end always eats the high end. It’s easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper. So the products that start as cheap, simple options tend to gradually grow more powerful till, like water rising in a…

I knew there must be others experiencing the same weirdness: Experts Exchange says „after loading Service Pack 2 (XPSP2) the mouse cursor will at random start to scroll off the screen when there is no mouse activity.“ (Found via Computer Hardware Forum.)

Dan Benjamin – Regarding Ruby (and Ruby on Rails): „PHP gives you nothing. It’s up to each individual programmer to figure out the right way to do things – and to define what the „right way“ really is. Unfortunately, only experience can help define that, and by the time most programmers have reached this point,…

David Megginson – REST design questions: „RESTafarians point out that REST is the basis of the Web’s success, but that’s really only the GET part (and its cousin, POST). Despite WebDAV, we have very little experience using PUT and DELETE even for regular web pages, much less to maintain a data repository. Even the much-touted…

Rasmus Lerdorf – Buzzing the Yahoo! Search Web Services: „I still much prefer the REST services out there. SOAP always reminds me of being stuck behind the guy in a hat driving a Lincoln Towncar. You eventually get to where you want to go, but the journey is painful. With REST you can just toss…

On IBM’s developerWorks: „Read our latest articles and tutorials on developing with PHP. And browse comprehensive listings of the articles, tutorials, project info, news, and events you need to stay up-to-date on developing with PHP.“ See also: phpblog@developerWorks

Martin LaMonica on ZDNet News – IBM backs open-source Web software: „One industry executive who requested not to be named said that IBM’s push into PHP and scripting reflects IBM’s disillusionment with the Java standardization process and the industry’s inability to make Java very easy to use. „IBM’s been so fed up with Java that…

Subversion’s Garrett Rooney on ONLamp.com – Preserving Backward Compatibility: „The first kind of compatibility most people think about is API compatibility. […] Second is Application Binary Interface, or ABI, compatibility. […] If your program communicates over a network, it has to deal with a third form of compatibility, client-server protocol compatibility. […] Finally, if your…

Joe Gregorio at XML.com – XML.com: How to Create a REST Protocol: „If you follow web services, then you may have heard of REST. REST is an architectural style that can be used to guide the construction of web services. Recently, there have been attempts to create such services that have met with mixed success.…

Tim Bray thinks that what I studied is worth a lot; he calls it Real Information Retrieval – thanks 🙂 „It dawned on me that now I work for a big company, and big companies have libraries, and sure enough, we do. It has a nice site on the Intranet where you can submit research…