Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Rich Bowen: „[I]f I was to pick on the most common unnecessary modules, I think I’d have to go for these ones. mod_imap mod_mime_magic mod_unique_id“

XML.com: „Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP“ „There are many available scripting languages that support web services. PHP is one such language, with a powerful arsenal of open source functions and tools. In this article, we will compare and contrast three methods of consuming and producing web services: XML-RPC, SOAP and REST.“

Microsoft Internet Explorer is dead, Mozilla is just so much better. This is not geek toy evangelism, it’s the plain truth. In case you didn’t know this yet, read Jon Udell: „During Mozilla’s long nuclear winter, I stuck with IE because I wasn’t willing to live with compromises. Then the tables turned. Suddenly, IE was…

A totally non-IT-related note: I love Le Fay’s bass guitars – take a look at their picture gallery! (I own an old Pangton.)

Kimbro Staken introduces Syncato (which was developed by him) on XML.com: „To many people, weblogs are simply a way to post their writing to the Web. For me weblogs are a personal data repository where you can store all kinds of information that you want to make publicly available. This includes, of course, writing, but…

Kendall Grant Clark starts a new column on XML.com, called „Hacking the Library“: „That’s the curious space I and others like me inhabit today: Digital, but not purely digital; analog, but not only analog. We live in the space between these two, in the space carved out by their now haphazard, now principled mixture. It…

„MOZiE is an extremely light-weight, free Windows application that allows web designers the ability to compare page rendering in Mozilla and Internet Explorer by embedding Gecko — via the Mozilla ActiveX control — in an HTML page that sits above an iframe displaying MSHTML-rendering, running as an HTA.“

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: „Here are just few examples of the BMW 745i’s clueless interaction design: * Response times are incredibly slow. Each time you select something, you must wait several seconds for the next screen to appear. It’s common to ridicule German engineers for their ignorance of customer needs, but no hardcore engineer should ever…

Eric M. Burke: „What I have not seen, however, is a good system for preventing stale documentation. The concept is pretty simple. Provide an RSS feed for the least recently modified pages on your web site. Or maybe configure several parameters such as how many page views pages get, how many people link to those…

Sam Ruby: „One key problem that we identified was the wiki syntax – both from a learning curve point of view and from a wiki tool lock-in perspective. It would be really nice if we could define a unified inport/export syntax that tools can use, either to PUT data to a wiki, or to migrate…