Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray – Atomic Monday: „To post an image (or any other bit-blob) with Atompub, you HTTP-POST it; the server stores it and creates a synthetic Atom entry for metadata about it. Then if you want to update the metadata, you have to PUT that. So Joe Gregorio, based on his work at Google, is…

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise – Features are a one-way street: „Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it. This changes the economics of feature additions. If you can’t destroy what you build, each addition holds the threat of clutter. Empty pixels and free space where a new…

Jon Meyer – CSS Considered Unstylish – or why CSS sucks: „CSS purports to separate style and content, but in fact it radically fails to do so. Rather, the opposite is true – CSS actually conflates style and structure. CSS stylesheets impose many implicit restrictions on the HTML structure. These restrictions are poorly defined and…

Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb – New York Times API Coming: „An API is a logical next step for newspapers. It will give developers access to their vast amounts of well-researched data, and allows the paper’s brand to be spread easily across the web. More access to Times content and the ability to mash it up…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise cites Danny Meyer: “I’ve made much more money by choosing the right things to say no to than by choosing things to say yes to. I measure it by the money I haven’t lost and the quality I haven’t sacrificed.”

MuninUsing Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine „what’s different today“ when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you’re doing capacity-wise on any resources.“

Signal vs. Noise – Git smart: How we’re using Git to track our source code: „Branching and merging in Subversion are painful. If you’ve never used it, you don’t know what I mean. If you have, you do. Branching and merging in git, though, are wonderfully, blissfully straightforward. For those two reasons alone git is…

Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic Monthly – Is Google Making Us Stupid?: „As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping…

Kurt Cagle – Drupal and The Future of News: „The role of editor as arbiter and gate keeper is increasingly becoming automated because the taxonomy systems are becoming too complex for any one person to keep abreast of. However, this is also important because taxonomy is the new navigation, something which I believe Drupal does…

Alex Iskold – Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality: „Probably the most striking revelation about the semantic search space is User Interface. First, to go on the tangent, Powerset got it right by realizing that semantics needs to be surfaced in the UI. After a user searches Powerset, a contextual gadget, aware of the semantics…