Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

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.“