Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Great programming font: Proggy! (Found it via Joel on Software.)

Peter Seebach on Linux.com: What you need to know to write man pages Guido Socher: Writing man-pages

Gene Smith: „RSS and XML-based content syndication are really taking off. News organizations (like the NY Times) and business are increasingly using RSS to syndicate their content. RSS is also becoming the spam-free alternative to email newsletters. Most RSS feeds are automagically generated from a content management system. As more feeds spring up, and more…

PHP Everywhere has a long article pointing to lots of resources on the topic: Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed on Unix. ONLamp.com’s shorter article is Introducing LAMP Tuning Techniques.

Andy Oram has written a nice article on Linux Documentation which is also a good read when thinking about how to document your own software…

It probably makes sense to follow the standardized Utility Conventions when writing command line utilities (which we’re doing in PHP a lot these days)… See also the chapter on Command-Line Options in The Art of Unix Programming.

Frequently used standards: Country name codes (ISO 3166-1) Codes for the representation of names of languages (ISO 639.2) See also the ISO’s list of widely used standards.