Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Nothing new, but well-written by Scott Granneman – Time to Dump Internet Explorer: „Look, let’s be honest with each other. We all know this is true: IE is a buggy, insecure, dangerous piece of software, and the source of many of the headaches that security pros have to endure […]. It’s time to tell our…

Joel Spolsky wants more web-app-developer friendly features in the web browser: „In the previous rounds of HTML enhancement, the world’s great graphic designers (like Jeffrey Zeldman) made the most noise and got us things like CSS which allow the kind of pixel-perfect page layout that the marketing people like, done in an intelligent way that…

Found Cory Doctorow’s great piece on why the Semantic Web will not exist – Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia: „2. The problems 2.1 People lie 2.2 People are lazy 2.3 People are stupid 2.4 Mission: Impossible — know thyself 2.5 Schemas aren’t neutral 2.6 Metrics influence results 2.7 There’s more…

„LAMPPIX allows you to burn your web projects (i.e. PHP presentations or Perl scripts) onto a CD-ROM and give them away to others. They will only have to insert the CD and reboot — if you configured LAMPPIX right (and this is really easy!) they can view your project.“

Brian Jones – Using Jabber as a log monitor: „Jabber, the streaming XML technology mainly used for instant messaging, is well-suited to its most common task. However, Jabber is a far more generic tool. It’s not a chat server per se, but rather a complete XML routing framework. This has some pretty far-reaching implications.“

„Rhizome is a Wiki-like content management and delivery system that exposes the entire site — content, structure, and metadata as editable RDF. This means that instead of just creating a site with URLs that correspond to a page of HTML, with Rhizome you can create URLs that represent just about anything, such as: structural components…

Jon Udell on InfoWorld – Capturing user experience closes the feedback loop: „For developers who rarely get to see people using their software, any opportunity to observe users is likely to provide valuable insight. Arguably such observation can, and should, occur throughout the software life cycle. A software team will often nominate one member to…

Howard Feldman – Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting: „Whatever it was, I determined to find out what was going on. How hard could it be? What I found was not at all what I expected. The story was interesting enough that I thought it worth sharing. Perhaps you’ll find ways to apply some of the…

Derek Sivers – Programming is like Songwriting: „As I get more and more into programming, I’m constantly struck with how similar it feels to songwriting. […] – It makes me jump out of bed at 2 AM wanting to try the ideas in my head to see if they work. – Being the programmer in…

Tom Baeyens on The State of Workflow: „When talking about an RDBMS in a software development team most people will get the picture and shake their heads slightly up and down confirming they understand what you’re saying. When using workflow terminology, the same crowds will shake their heads similarly but this time, every person will…