Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

An iX article (8/2004, p. 116) mentions some quite strange Internet Explorer behaviour which affects dynamically generated PDFs – there’s an MS knowledge base article: „To work around this limitation and to considerably improve the performance of your application, watch for the „contype“ userAgent request and only return the content-type.“ On an unrelated note, the…

Adam Trachtenberg – Why PHP 5 Rocks: „Fortunately, PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 in three major areas: * Object-oriented programming * MySQL * XML These items have all been completely rewritten, turning them from limitations into star attractions. While these changes alone warrant a new version of PHP, PHP 5 also provides a plethora…

Chad Dickerson – RSS growing pains: „As the popularity of RSS feeds at InfoWorld started to surge, I began to notice that most of the RSS clients out there requested and downloaded our feeds regardless of whether the feeds themselves had changed. At the time, we hadn’t quite reached the RSS tipping point, so I…

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…