Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

„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…

Russell Beattie, Rampaging Computer Science: „The problem is that much of the Java stuff out there is just written by really smart morons who seem to love complexity for complexity’s sake. Even in the API itself! Ever used the Calendar API? It’s written by a monkey. Ever check out the code under the JSTL? Those…

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld: „Deloitte has developed what it calls Industry Prints for some 20-plus industries, using data gathered from Deloitte’s interactions with various enterprise-level companies. An Industry Print details every single process that makes up an industry. It maps processes all the way from the 10,000-foot level (run HR, run customer support) down to…

Jakob Nielsen on Productivity in the Service Economy: „It’s great to employ usability methods to simplify intranet user interfaces and expedite performance within existing tasks. Do it. Millions of dollars are waiting to be saved for the average company. But, as the saying goes, we should also work smarter. Enterprise software has largely failed until…

Jason Cook wrote an article on GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF and FOAF, on webmonkey: „Well, META’s not dead. In the pages that follow, I’ll be giving you a bird’s eye view of a few independent technologies, each aspiring to get useful metadata back into the Web. Some are homegrown, some corporate, and some academic,…

Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML, gets excited about OpenOffice – seems like good software is made in Hamburg, Germany 🙂 … „The way that these guys store the data is massively, fiendishly, outrageously clever. They have their own XML tag set, which includes (in one namespace) all the basic word-processing, spreadsheet, and…

IPTC Metadata: Subject Reference System & NewsML Topicsets: „The IPTC creates and maintains for many years sets of terms to be assigned as metadata to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio- and video files and streams.“

Sean Hull compares PHP and ASP.NET on the Oracle Technology Network: „In this article I’ll focus on PHP, the technology Oracle has chosen to incorporate into its products, and ASP.NET. […] In conclusion you’ll find a point-by-point comparison in terms of price, speed and efficiency, security, cross-platform support, and the advantages of an open source…

John Neil on the Oracle Technology Network: „A case study in how the PHP/Oracle development Model reduced the application lifecycle at Myers Internet.“ Quote: „The quick turnaround times that PHP development affords allowed for the complete order entry part of the system to be fully prototyped, both visually and functionally, within a two-week period. This…