Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Alertbox: „Usability can save time by helping you quickly settle arguments in the development team. Most projects waste countless staff hours as highly paid people sit in meetings and argue over what users might want or what they might do under various circumstances. Instead of debating, find out.“

In his Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen lays out his visions on software development: „Just as Francis Fukuyama was wrong in predicting „the end of history,“ it would be wrong to predict the end of IT innovation. We still need some new features; hopefully they’ll emerge more slowly than in the past, and be more solidly designed…

Nice summary of the „Joke“ Conversation Thread in which the 🙂 Was Invented by Scott E Fahlman in September 1982…

Tim Bray: „Computers are amazingly, remarkably, unbelievably fast. When you’re executing compiled code that’s running around structures in memory (and they actually fit in memory), you can do stupendous quantities of computation with no perceptible delay. It’s easy to forget that now; there are so many layers of database and application server and virtual machine…

Finally, someone else realises that there’s a nasty bug in Microsoft IE related to Adobe XMP as written by Photoshop 7. Steven Frank writes: „Windows versions of Internet Explorer, mostly 5.5 and 6.0 get thoroughly confused by a file that identifies itself as .jpg but contains XML. When you try to load one of these…

Jon Udell: „Software should recognize our patterns and make our lives easier.“

Tutorials and examples: Zend.com: Writing Socket Servers in PHP Dev Shed – Socket Programming With PHP ONLamp.com: Introduction to Socket Programming with PHP Micah Lansing: MicahServer

PHPEclipse.de has (German) installation instructions for PHP support within the Eclipse IDE.

Tony Stubblebine on ONLamp.com: „1. Use Whitespace and Comments 2. Write Tests 3. Group the Alternation Operator 4. Use Lazy Quantifiers 5. Use Available Delimiters“

Raymond Chen: „The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map.“