Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Sriram Krishnan – Tyranny of the geeks: „Nowadays, it is the ‚in‘-thing to be CSS-aware. If you’re dumb enough to use a table tag, you’re branded as a clueless moron. However, no one really tells you why table tags are bad. In fact, the equivalent CSS for generating something like your standard sign-up form is…

Harry Fuecks asks – Which PHP libraries do you use?: „For interest, wondering what PHP libraries people use? By use I mean libraries you actually trust and are willing to use / have used on a live website.“ The replies (comments) are interesting, a lot of people seem to use PHPMailer and ADOdb, and JpGraph.…

Slashdot – Protecting Your Enterprise Network from Vendor App Servers?: „I work for a company with a large IT infrastructure. We have lots of applications in our environment. For a number of applications, vendors provide the apps, and provide core support to those app servers. Our vendors are notorious for demanding superuser access to the…

Tim Bray – More Relax: „[…] that RelaxNG is the world’s best schema language, and that anyone who who’s using XML but not RelaxNG should be nervous.“

Chad Dickerson – The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid: „18. Underestimating PHP IT managers who look only as far as J2EE and .Net when developing scalable Web apps are making a mistake by not taking a second look at scripting languages — particularly PHP. This scripting language has been around for a decade now,…

Adam Bosworth – ISCOC04 Talk: „That software which is flexible, simple, sloppy, tolerant, and altogether forgiving of human foibles and weaknesses turns out to be actually the most steel cored, able to survive and grow while that software which is demanding, abstract, rich but systematized, turns out to collapse in on itself in a slow…

Dunstan Orchard on his site’s dynamic panorama header: „The image displayed across the top of the site (for those using CSS compliant browsers) is a 1600 pixel-wide panoramic view from the top of my parents‘ house, in Dorset. The scene was originally captured as a series of photographs, before being manually traced in Xara X…

John Lim points to Peter Yared’s (former CTO of Sun’s application server division) article The Next Language (from September 2003): „The Java API’s grow into a morass of inconsistent and incomprehensible API’s, even the most simple things proved to be very complicated. […] So let’s look at the requirements for today’s corporate applications: * Handle…

Paul Graham – Made in USA: „Systematic“ is the last word I’d use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It’s something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch. In software, paradoxical as it…

„PHP/SWF Charts makes the best of both the PHP and SWF worlds. PHP scripts provide integration, and Flash provides the best display quality. Features: * Web charts from dynamic data * Live chart updates without reloading the web page * Clickable charts, and drill-down * Simple and flexible chart generation * Quality Flash graphics including…