Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Doug Ross on Return-codes vs. Exceptions: „Software quality, in general, sucks. The reason for this is that many developers are too lazy to instrument, monitor and and respond to all sorts of strange conditions. In other words, many of us are undisciplined. We’re more worried about „readability“ (and I disagree with that contention as well…

„hiercat is an automatic text classifier which uses the hierarchical structure of class labels to improve classification performance. The model it uses is that of Gaussier, et. al.“