Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Incremental Blogger: „I finally convinced Bryan to play hooky today and see what would happen if he tried to sight-read a fiddle tune off of my NEC LitePad Tablet PC. We downloaded some music in PDF format off the Internet, and tried using a mouse sitting on the floor as a „footswitch“ for turning pages.“

A very nice and personal weblog on using the Tablet PC. What Is New has lots of practical information on Tablet PCs…

Lambda the Ultimate USENIX2003: „We would like to „cd /lib“ and descend into the „directory“ that contains only library files, grouped into subdirectories „root“, „usr“, „local“. We would like to „cd /bin|/sbin“ and get to the root of the „filesystem tree“ that contains only executable files (again, grouped into „subdirectories“). We may even do „cd…

Nice pictures from Peder’s home Møllerheimen in Norway…

Krysalis: „Transform XML documents into XHTML with PHP and XSL For a web applications programmer who has to develop complex enterprise level applications, web services or multi language dynamic websites (Content Management Systems), Krysalis is a development platform that improves the Apache/PHP framework by separating the application logic from the presentation layer, using open standards…

Dion Almaer: „Wiki is now everywhere. I can have an easy to edit version of my life, and a lovely trail of all that is important. The web has come to an application, and it is EXTREMELY easy to use.“

David Simpson: „I’ve been an Apple customer since I bought my 128K Macintosh in 1984, and I make my living performing Solaris and Windows system administration in my role as an Oracle DBA. So it’s been very exciting for me to see the introduction of Mac OS X and now the availability of Oracle 9i…

Here are the free Red Hat 9 ISO images.

A List Apart: „Assigning accesskeys to menu items adds “Hot-Key” functions to a website, letting frequent users spend less time less time moving and clicking the mouse. This solution, however, has been largely underused because it almost always fails due to two major flaws. The first problem is that visitors to your website have no…

Sterling Hughes: „I was talking […] with Thies at Linuxtag […] about the difference between a fanclub and a business. Thies pointed out that PHP was no longer a fanclub, but was very much a business…. In the early days of a system, it is a fanclub. You are all happily hacking away. If you…