Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

What to choose for an Ajax-based web application (full JavaScript „RIA“ interface)? We’re especially looking for lots of stable, beautiful, existing components (tree view with drag & drop, floating grid, forms), and an architecture suited to writing a large application… Contenders: YUI (Yahoo! UI Library) Ext JS Dojo / Dijit SproutCore GWT (Google Web Toolkit)…

Todd Ogasawara at the O’Reilly Digital Media Blog – iPod touch Backward Lesson from Windows Mobile: The Value of a Phone-less Device: „The iPod touch with its new ability to download and install applications will, I believe, demonstrate that there is a segment of the market that wants a multimedia-PDA device that is connectable (via…

Joel Spolsky – Don’t hide or disable menu items: „Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you can’t complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why.“

Design Float – Having fun with geotagged photos: „Today I am going to explain how to extract the geotagging information stored by Picasa and do some fun things with it in PHP.“

Tim Bray –Build One To Throw Away: „Managers, good managers, want a plan; they want to lock in design constraints so that work can be dealt out and progress tracked and promises kept. Programmers, good programmers, know that they’re not smart enough to get the core design choices right until they’ve built something that works.…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales – How to Crush it: „In one of Greg’s slides Google VP Marissa Mayer, in reference to the Google results, is quoted as saying „Users really respond to speed.“ […] Yet for some reason latency isn’t a topic talked a lot…

Firefox extension DragDropUpload (found here in the Firefox add-on directory): „Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries.“ iFrame-based file uploads are described here: WebToolkit: AJAX file upload, El Micox Codes: Asynchronous upload – Like AJAX – 1 function.

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Gojko Adzic – The fifth element of the Agile Manifesto: „Martin [Fowler] then talked about Ignaz Semmelweis, a hospital administrator in 19th century Vienna who discovered that the mortality rate in a maternity clinic could be drastically cut by making doctors wash their hands when moving between the autopsy ward and the maternity ward. Semmelweis…

Simon St. Laurent – Web, meet Semantic Web: „The key point of [Sam] Hunting’s experience, which emphasized letting users do what they wanted to do, valid or not valid, was that „People really do care about tagging – they really do tag – when they get an immediate positive result.“ The key phrase there is…