Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Nikita Ogievetsky’s (Cogitech, Inc.) and Terry Badger’s (Eastman Kodak Company) XML Europe 2003 presentation on Topic Map Solutions for Kodak Digital Camera Accessories: „This presentation shows how Topic Map based solutions are used to build, organize and maintain Kodak digital cameras accessories web site. The chosen approach did not require software investment. Excel, an available…

Graham Moore, Kal Ahmed: „Topic Map Relational Query Language [PDF] (TMRQL) has been designed in order to provide a sound foundation for querying topics maps. To this end it does not define an entire new language but instead presents a core set of abstract relational views. The relational model provides a firm foundation for the…

Peter-Paul Koch on A List Apart – JavaScript Triggers: „CSS triggers are well known. The class and id attributes allow you to fully control the presentation of your websites. […] The behavior layer should function in exactly the same way. We should separate behavior and structure by discarding inline event handlers like onmouseover=“switchImages(‚fearful‘,6,false)“. Instead, as…

PHP Security Consortium: The PHP Security Guide.

„With Serna, general users and professional authors alike can create and maintain complex XML documents. With minimal training, most people will find it as easy to use as a conventional word processor. […] Serna is unique because it allows users to edit documents in print appearance , thereby greatly simplifying and shortening the document maintenance…

Paul Graham – What You’ll Wish You’d Known, written as a talk for a high school: „Now I know a number of people who do great work, and it’s the same with all of them. They have little discipline. They’re all terrible procrastinators and find it almost impossible to make themselves do anything they’re not…

Jeff Moore: „I just want to point out that the Mac mini comes with Apache and PHP pre-installed.“

By Eric Freeman and David Gelernter back in 1997: „Lifestreams is built on a simple storage metaphor — a time-ordered stream of documents combined with several powerful operators — that replaces many conventional computer constructs (such as named files, directories, and explicit storage) and in the process provides a unified framework that subsumes many separate…

Vannevar Bush’s legendary essay from 1945, As We May Think: „Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and to coin one at random, „memex“ will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and…

„TMCore05 allows developers to take full advantage of the power of topic maps in their applications. The engine provides a robust store for multiple topic maps; an extensive API accessible via any language supported by the Microsoft CLR; and a high-level web services interface that allows both reading and updating of topic maps using SOAP-based…