Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Bruce Eckel – The Mythical 5%: „Usually the things that make or break a project are process and people issues. The way that you work on a day-to-day basis. Who your architects are, who your managers are, and who you are working with on the programming team. How you communicate, and most importantly how you…

Rick Jelliffe at the O’Reilly XML Blog – XML Schemas: guaranteed non-interoperability as a design methodology?: „Why not? Because, as far as I can make out, the idea that we will all be better off if we pretend that XML Schemas is a unified and whole specification, one size that can fit all, then somehow…

M. David Peterson at the O’Reilly XML Blog – Question: Does the URI Length Recommendation of 255 bytes Matter Anymore?: „RFC 2068 is about a week shy of being 11 years old. Is the 255 byte URI length recommendation still applicable? From the client perspective, possibly not. But what about from the proxy perspective? And…

David Greiner – Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered: „In this article that goes hand-in-hand with the release of Emails-Standards.org, David Greiner explains what you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.“

Amazon.com: „The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa’s large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl. […] If a requested thumbnail image does not yet exist, it will be automatically generated within…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – How can I learn to scale my project?: „The center of your design should be the data store, not a process. You transition the data store from state to state, securely and reliably, in small increments. […] Viewing an application as a series of state transitions instead of a…

„A J2EE web service client sends the document to the StarOffice 8 Server and receives the converted Acrobat PDF document immediately.“

Joel Spolsky – Talk at Yale: Part 3 of 3: „Being able to write clearly on technical topics is the difference between being a grunt individual contributor programmer and being a leader.“

Joel Spolsky – Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3: „The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog boxes was reasonable and neatly aligned, they checked whether the screen flickered when you did things, they looked at…

Roger A. Grimes at InfoWorld – Go RBAC now: „Let’s assume that application developers do know exactly what permissions are needed for each task in their application — and this is indeed true of any application developed with RBAC in mind. The developers create application-specific groups that mimic the various roles that an end-user would…