Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

csszengarden.com is next to incredible – I wouldn’t have thought that CSS is so powerful! „There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will…

Jon Udell: „When you need to store and display a modest amount of structured or semistructured data, it’s tempting to store it directly in an HTML file. I’ve used this strategy many times; undoubtedly you have too. The advantages and disadvantages of working directly with a presentation format are pretty clear. It’s handy that the…

„TikiWiki is an open source web application which provides a full Wiki environment, as well as Articles, Sections, User/Group Management (including optinal LDAP interaction), Polls and Quizzes, File and Image Galleries, Forums, Comments on many areas, Weblogs, and much more.“ (And it’s written in PHP.)

Jon Udell: „[…] blog content would be a lot more valuable if it were easier for non-emacs-using civilians to write XHTML. I’m particularly interested in finding ways to relate the style vocabulary of a standard wordprocessor, which is the only kind of granular metadata that people will consistently apply, to an emergent semantic vocabulary in…

Strategic Developer: „The first server I connected to the Internet sat on the floor of my office, close enough so I could hear — and feel — its response to heavy load. It seems weird to admit that I relied on those sensory cues, but I’ve talked to enough system administrators to know I’m not…

OpenGroupware.org’s mission: „To create, as a community, the leading open source groupware server to integrate with the leading open source office suite products and all the leading groupware clients running across all major platforms, and to provide access to all functionality and data through open XML-based interfaces and APIs.“ It’s a formerly commercial software (SKYRIX)…

Google News – finally. Seems to be just what I’ve been waiting for.