Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

„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“.

Rasmus Lerdorf: „A suggested architecture for a PHP application. The template layer should have as little business logic as possible. As you go down you have less presentation and more business logic.“

chromatic’s Pragmatic Programmers Interview: „Andy Hunt: […] Simple applications should be simple to write, easy to install and maintain. That used to be the case, but the current state of the world with web applications, J2EE, and so on is quite a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Dave Thomas: Interestingly, we’re seeing…

„Automator contains a library of Actions. Each Action is designed to perform a single task, such as finding linked images in a Web page, renaming a group of files or creating a new event in an iCal calendar. Actions from the Automator library are added in sequence to a Workflow document. Each Action in the…

Harry Fuecks – Seperating Browser from Resource: „A personal grievance: I hate writing admin interfaces for web applications. The „front end“ – what a site’s visitors see – no problem but the admin interface, which is typically both more complex and at the same time, visible only to a limited use group, drives me nuts…

Jon Udell – The Google PC generation: „Job No. 1 for the Google PC would be to vacuum up all available sources of data. Job No. 2 would be to exploit that data to the hilt. On the Google PC, you wouldn’t need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant…