Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Let the Java experts talk about PHP: „You can be very clever with some scripting languages and do things you can’t do with regular Java,“ said Mukund Balasubramanian, CTO of Redwood City, CA-based Infravio, a Java and Web services integrator. „If you know how to use a good scripting language, you can save a lot…

I’d love to go to school again: „The Diocese of Columbus Department of Education is undertaking one of the first wide-scale deployments of Tablet PC technology in an educational environment. They have partnered with HP and their TC1000 Tablet PC.“

Norman Walsh on XML.com: „Escaping markup, particularly with CDATA sections, just doesn’t work. There are other things that might be wrong that would make the documents not well formed. There are Unicode characters that are forbidden, there are encoding issues for the characters that are allowed, and there are sequences of characters that must be…

Mindmeld seems to have a rather narrow focus, but the description sounds nice (and it’s free software): „Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge-sharing system. It is an effective tool for any web community that needs to capture and share information, and is unique in that the knowledgebase grows smarter every time it’s used. It only knows…

Robin is a „desktop on a web page“, written in Mozilla’s XUL. Slow, but demonstrates XUL’s capabilities. Found this through Andrew Channels Dexter Pinion weblog.

Gary Burd and Adam Shand both compiled lists of new, interesting “information client” software (the likes of Chandler and Haystack)…

It’s always a joy to see that some friendly person uses, and even promotes, software you’ve written – in this case, my OracleEditor.php script.

Thies and Sterling Hughes speed up PHP…

FFII: „The FFII is organizing an online demonstration against software patents. We want you to replace the title page of your project’s site with a protest page against software patents (for examples see below) on August 27th.“

Dented Reality: „HTFS is a project I am working on where I am basing a complete, database-driven „file-system“ on the concept of hyper-text, but with one added benefit. Rather than allowing the situation in hypertext where you can link to something that then moves (same situation as with a shortcut or symlink on normal filesystems),…