Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Paul Prescod on XML.com: „Do you want to view a chess transcript without installing a ChessGML viewer? You can do that with SVG. Do you want to visualize the output of a geospatial analysis program? You can do that with SVG. Do you want to visualize different aspects of the London underground? SVG. Want to…

I’m using Instant Messaging for (second level) tech support more and more, and it’s great for this purpose: Interaction is just so much faster than with e-mail exchange, and it’s not dragging my attention as far away from my current work as phone calls do. I can send text, URLs, files… Two things we’re used…

Dion Almaer: „What cool CVS clients do you guys use… and what do you think about the state of version control?“

Danny O’Brien: „Ever since I saw the Remembrance Agent , I’ve wanted something like Dashboard. It just seems to be the right idea for me, and I think for others too. It’s what I liked about Lotus Agenda ; it’s what I anticipate liking about Chandler.“ „One of my big bones with MS stuff is…

Never used it before, but it might be about time to add this to the Apache/PHP setup: mod_gzip homepage Tutorial

Screenshots and installation instructions for setting up Eclipse for PHP and XML editing: Eclipse and WebStudio – The best IDE for PHP ever.

André’s Photo Gallery – there’s even some pictures of me: in motion at work in foreign countries under the bridge Thanks André…

Our Australian photo sales website project is now online: fairfaxphotos.com – shop there for great pictures by Australian photographers. It’s running on Linux/Apache/Oracle/PHP and based on our Digital Collections DC4 system for storage and retrieval. (I did most of the PHP programming…) The launch party started at 2:30 am German time…

Richard P. Gabriel: „The concept known as “worse is better” holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed. Christopher Alexander might call this “piecemeal growth.” This is the story of the evolution of that concept.“

Roger L. Costello: „Here are the characteristics of REST: Client-Server: a pull-based interaction style: consuming components pull representations. Stateless: each request from client to server must contain all the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server. Cache: to improve network efficiency responses must be capable…