Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Dmitri Popov at Linux.com – Create impressive charts with Open Flash Chart: „Creating a high-quality chart for the Web can be a challenging task, but open source software like Open Flash Chart (OFC) makes it a cinch. As you might guess from its name, the core engine of OFC is written in Adobe Flash. Although…

Lukas Kahwe Smith – Remember: be nice to byte code caches: „<arnaud_> does autoload have a performance impact when using apc ? <Rasmus_> it is slow both with and without apc <Rasmus_> but yes, moreso with apc because anything that is autoloaded is pushed down into the executor <Rasmus_> so nothing can be cached <Rasmus_>…

Tim Berners-Lee – Giant Global Graph: „In the long term vision, thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system. Then, when I book a flight it is the…

Via Tim Bray – WS-dämmerung: James M. Snell – Notes: „Those who are familiar with my history with IBM should know that I was once a *major* proponent of the WS-* approach. […] I was involved in most of the internal efforts to design and prototype nearly all of the WS-* specifications. However, over the…

Mark Pilgrim about the Amazon Kindle – The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts): „Another possible change: with connected books, the tether between the author and the book is still active after purchase. Errata can be corrected instantly. Updates, no problem. Newsweek, The Future of Reading Day by day and almost minute by…

Howard Feldman at ONLamp.com – Advanced JavaScript III: „In this final article of the series, we proceed with another handful of useful JavaScript case studies that focus on manipulating and rewriting the HTML page on-the-fly using Document Object Model (DOM). […] Dynamic Tables: It is often desirable in a user interface to have the user…

Zend.com – Behind the Site: „Zend Platform can intercept calls to files that are larger than a given, configurable size, offloading those calls directly to Apache to boost performance.“

Steven Levy announces the Amazon Kindle e-Book reader in Newsweek – The Future of Reading: „Microsoft’s Bill Hill has a riff where he runs through the energy-wasting, resource-draining process of how we make books now. We chop down trees, transport them to plants, mash them into pulp, move the pulp to another factory to press…

Joel Spolsky – How to demo software: „As you go along, be sure to accidentally bump into all the nice little “fit and finish” features of your product. Oh look, that column is halfway off screen. No problem. I’ll just drag it over. (“Wha!” the audience gasps, “you dragged a column in HTML?”) Oh, look,…

Jon Udell – Jing’s the thing: „When the TechSmith folks told me about Jing I was thinking about screencasting at a different level: professional quality, careful editing, multiple delivery formats. So I made note of it, but didn’t fully appreciate its significance.“