Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

A nice article on „Mapping Topic Maps on Relational Databases“: „One possibility to permanently store Topic Maps is using Relational Databases. In this document I present a possible database schema that allows to store Topic Maps.“

Zend: „Zend’s PHP survey is a market snapshot of the PHP community. Over 10,000 respondents to the survey which was posted in June 2003.“ Seems like few participants actually sell and deploy software written in PHP, as only 11% have applications hosted by their clients. And only another 11% have an application with more than…

This Oracle „Statement of Direction“ says that: „For Oracle Application Server 10G Release 2 (10.0.3) Oracle plans that both documentation and a version of PHP will be included in the release CDs. In addition, integration with Install, DCM and other core Oracle iAS facilities is planned. Further integration with Single Sign On and other core…

SimpleT: „SimpleT takes the view that PHP already is an excellent template language and when used purely for that purpose, is very easy for web page designers to work with.“ „SimpleT takes advantage of PHP’s output control functions to allow the correct seperation of Model from View (or Application Logic from Presentation Logic).“

A nice example of Topic Map browsing, made by Bond University, Australia.

Jon Udell doing advocacy for Test-driven development… Ward Cunningham citation: „When somebody says this is test-first code, you believe that it’s going to be more robust than otherwise. And if you do run into a limitation, it’s more likely that you can get past it. Test-first means that it’s clear what the code does, and…

Jakob Nielsen: „Spare your users the misery of being dumped into PDF files without warning. Create special gateway pages that summarize the contents of big documents and guide users gently into the PDF morass.“

Jon Udell: „As new species of XML documents are emerging, vendors are unveiling increased RDBMS support for XML.“

Tim Bray on Metadata: „If You Collect Metadata By Hand The most important lesson I’ve learned, is: Don’t try to collect too much. You might, just might, get people, when they’re interacting with your intranet, to label their information by project and title; but more than a couple of fields and people will just bypass…

It suddenly clicks: What I always disliked about XSLT was the idea of having to maintain a complex HTML layout in a rather ugly XML file. PHP embedded in HTML is so much nicer to read than HTML embedded in XSL. But if it’s really possible to keep the HTML file extremely plain and simple…