Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Michael Denny – Ontology Tools Survey, Revisited: „Reference to taxonomies and ontologies by vendors of mainstream enterprise-application-integration (EAI) solutions are becoming commonplace. Popularly tagged as semantic integration, vendors like Verity, Modulant, Unicorn, Semagix, and many more are offering platforms to interchange information among mutually heterogeneous resources including legacy databases, semi-structured repositories, industry-standard directories and vocabularies…

chromatic – Just Finally Do It!: „Without further ado, here are my seven rules for Just Finally Doing It! 1. Untested code isn’t done. 2. Unreleased code isn’t done. 3. Undocumented code isn’t done. 4. Set many, small, specific goals. 5. Simplicity gives you more options than complexity. 6. Do something every day. Finish something…

fann can be called from within PHP…

Darrell M. Kienzle, Matthew C. Elder, David Tyree, James Edwards-Hewitt – Security Patterns: „We have produced a Security Patterns Repository [PDF] consisting of 26 patterns and 3 mini-patterns. (A mini-pattern is a shorter, less formal discussion of security expertise in terms of just a problem and its solution.) We focused on the domain of Web…

Harry Fuecks – Server Side Autocompletion with PHP and XMLHttpRequest: „Christian has an interesting new feature called „Livesearch“ on his blog, described here. Try typing „PHP“ in the search box on the right and see what happens.“

„SQLpal – A free tool for Oracle DBA-Developers. As a replacement for SQL*Plus, SQLpal offers the following features: […] – native windows user inteface – does not require Oracle client to be installed – does not require tnsnames.ora, instead just enter the host, port and sid“

Jono Bacon is inspired by Sun’s 3D GUI project Looking Glass: „When a user plugs in a device, it should be visually represented on the screen. This will make an intrinsic link between the physical device and the virtual device, although they may look different physically (this is the biggest problem). With this device on…

Mark Nottingham – SOAP: Protocol or Format? „Contrast this with the simplicity of calling SOAP a format. There would be no SOAP protocol binding, just a format with a processing model. If you wanted to transfer that format around using an existing protocol (like HTTP, SMTP, Jabber, etc.) you could; it’s just a format that…

Have some fun reading Jeremiah Weiner’s Why Java Sucks For Sysadmins – I always wondered why „java HelloWorld.class“ results in an error…

Looks like a great web application: Basecamp – „Web-based project management the way it should be“.