Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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.“

„From the Flux Operations Console, you can check on the status of jobs and workflows, remove jobs, recover jobs that have failed, reschedule jobs, perform other job maintenance, and monitor file transfer progress.“

dotCMS – What’s New in 1.5?: „WebDAV access to CMS File Repository“ PHProjekt – Summer of PHProjekt Addons: „PFolders is a WebDAV Interface for PHProjekt which enables you to access the file repository of the filemanager from PHProjekt without the web interface of PHProjekt.“ KnowledgeTree – Release Notes for Version 3.4.5: “ WebDAV and Network…

Joel Spolsky – Evidence Based Scheduling: „Individual development tasks are easy to estimate, because you’ve written subroutines, created dialogs, and parsed files before. If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., “Implement Ajax photo editor”), then you haven’t thought about what you are going to do. In detail. Step by step. And when…

„Alfresco JLAN uses a virtual file system interface that allows you to plug in your own file system implementation with the core server handling all of the network protocol exchange between the client and server. JLAN is also the only Java implementation of Window’s CIFS (Common Internet File System), in addition to supporting NFS and…

Ed Stevenson at Really Strategies Blog – One of the best search experiences: „On kayak.com, you are offered a set of dials and levers for adjusting the query, such as eliminating airlines, changing departure time frames, or looking for the shortest trip. You want to leave between 10 and 12, just move the dial and…

Greg Miller at MacTech – Exploring Leopard with DTrace: „A few years back, Sun Microsystems developed DTrace: a new and innovative way to trace running software on live systems. DTrace enables developers and administrators to „see“ what their code, and others‘ code, is doing in a flexible and dynamic way. With the release of Leopard,…

Sam Madden in The Database Column – Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability: „Because shared nothing [as in IBM DB2] does not typically have nearly as severe bus or resource contention as shared-memory [MySQL] or shared-disk [Oracle RAC] machines, shared nothing can be made to scale to hundreds or even thousands of machines. Because of…