Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Timothy M. O’Brien at the O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Faster than expected… (Salesforce, Google + EC2 with Disks): „When you can fire up Eclipse and deploy a custom application to Salesforce to have it show up for your users in the context of Google Apps (Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar, Google Docs), your own in-house applications…

Eric Sink – Yours, Mine and Ours: „In terms of the size of the canyon, ThemWare is probably the worst possible scenario. If I am building software that I don’t use and don’t know how to use for people I don’t understand or even like, how good is my software going to be? I probably…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Excerpts from Ricardo Semler’s book „Maverick: The Success Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace“ (citing Ricardo Semler’s Maverick): „In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest – quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for…

Ben Martin at Linux.com – Inspecting disk IO performance with fio: „The vast array of ways that fio can issue its IO requests lends it to benchmarking IO patterns and the use of various APIs to perform that IO. You can also run identical fio configurations on different filesystems or underlying hardware to see what…

Joel Spolsky at Inc.com – Fire and Motion: „If your competitors are really solving a problem in a unique way, you won’t miss out by focusing on your own customers. Rest assured that your customers are already trying to tell you that this opportunity exists, if you’ll only listen. A minute spent understanding the competition…

FDI fonts.info believes in the future of web fonts

Rob Weir on the Microsoft Office XML format – OOXML’s (Out of) Control Characters: „Let’s now look at how OOXML defines the semantics of its ST_Xstring type: ”ST_Xstring (Escaped String) – String of characters with support for escaped invalid-XML characters. For all characters which cannot be represented in XML as defined by the XML 1.0…

Georg Greve at Groklaw – And now the appeals and reactions while OOXML sits on hold: „Ha! Caught some of you. Because some of you *did* think Microsoft was changing and getting more open and was wanting to build bridges to FOSS, etc. I know you did. I hoped for a while myself. Well, take…

„Supervisor provides you with one place to start, stop, and monitor your processes. Processes can be controlled individually or in groups. You can configure Supervisor to provide a local or remote command line and web interface.“ (Via High Scalability.)

James Turner at O’Reilly ONLamp – The Worthlessness of Code: „When management talks about the value of code, they’re really talking about the value of the experience that the engineers gained by developing the code, as expressed in the code. The problem is, most companies let the value walk out the door (either through layoffs…