Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Good, practical article on Network Management with Nagios by Richard C. Harlan: „John Deere had to expand network management across a diverse collection of hardware and software. Nagios saved the day.“

Peter Van Dijck asks: „Why is it so hard to lean topicmaps?“ „Topicmap tools are at the topicmap level, not at the real-life usefulness level. In other words, topicmap tools let you manage, create, and merge topicmaps. But they don’t let you do anything specifically useful outside of the topicmap realm (like create a simple…

A long paper by Lars Marius Garshol: Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! – Making sense of it all „To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the…

Mark Pilgrim on XML.com – Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content: „So you want to write a program to read RSS and Atom syndicated feeds. Sounds simple enough. After all, RSS stands for „Really Simple Syndication“ (or „Rich Site Summary“, or „RDF Site Summary“, or something), and Atom is just RSS with different tag names, right? Well,…

The German Berliner Arbeitskreis Information compiled a directory of Software for Information Management (in German only).

Jim Westbrook on NewsForge: „K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home since she was able to sit in our laps while we were at the keyboard. By the time she was two and a half years old, she was „helping“ us by moving the mouse…

David Fischer has compiled a well-written list of Web Application Security Tips (available in German only).

Harry Fuecks on Mozilla visions: „Via Mozillazine, a fascinating post by Brendan Eich, the father of Javascript and Mozilla’s chief architect. This is fiesty stuff. Brendan basically lays out his view of how things are might play out, over the next five years, in the „battle“ to control the application development and deployment platform of…

„memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.“ There’s a PECL package providing a PHP API for memcached… (thanks Thieso for the hint.)

Clay Shirky wrote a great article on what he calls Situated Software: „Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in…