Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Rich Skrenta explains why only RAM is fast: „A disk head seek is about 9ms, and the human perceptual threshold for what seems „instant“ is around 50ms. So if you have just one head seek per user request, you can support at most 5 hits/second on that server before users start to notice latency. If…

Tim Anderson’s „Why Tablet PC? The pros and cons of keyboards versus handwriting input and review of Acer C110 or C111“: „When Tablet was first launched I was unsure of the format’s long-term potential. I am deeply wedded to the keyboard, there is a hefty price premium, and twisting a Tablet screen to convert it…

Harry Fuecks publishes a sample chapter on caching from his „PHP Anthology“ book.

Java developer Russell Beattie is impressed by PHP projects: „What is it about PHP that makes it so good for web projects? On the face of it, it looks like half-ass Perl or or scriptlet-based JSP pages. I mean all the bad things we’re supposed to be getting away from with MVC and JSTL is…

Looks great: „WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.“

Tim Berners-Lee on the world’s first web browser: „The first web browser – or browser-editor rather – was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract…

revjim.net tells us how to write better code in PHP: „Writing good, clean PHP code isn’t hard. One just needs a few simple guidelines.“ He’s explaining his approach to using Model/View/Controller architecture in a PHP application. (Not very well written, in my opinion – writing good, clean tutorials IS hard…)

I want one of those: Charles F. Goldfarb’s XML Handbook, Fifth Edition Take a look at the sample chapters The XML usage spectrum (PDF) and XML for machines (PDF), they’re nice to read.

Timothy Appnel lets us know that Walt Disney Company is using RSS for internal communication: „Internally, we are also leveraging RSS as a means of collaboration and communication for our software engineering teams. All engineers maintain blogs and use NewsAggregators to track tasks, projects, and new technology. In addition, we are tracking changes on our…

ZDNet UK has a fun article on Schwäbisch Hall’s migration from Windows to Linux: „Once the migration was completed, though, there were concerns that the open-source software would be harder to use than Windows. Again, Schwäbisch Hall had a solution. „We put the chairwoman of our workers‘ council on stage in front of all the…