Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Tim Bray: „At work, we’ve been putting a lot of time into what used to be called ‚Dynamic HTML‘, i.e. making web pages more dynamic and lively with a variety of Javascript techniques. There’s this one design pattern that keeps turning up, and for those who aren’t already JS hacks, it may be worth stealing.…

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…