Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Sam Ruby – Dare Takes a Look at CouchDB: „What happens when your application grows so large that you have no choice but to massively employ techniques like sharding? What do you have to give up? What do you need to add back in in order to mitigate the loss of the things you give…

Greg Beaver – The evil that is fear: banning religion from US prisons: „The past 6 years have seen an unprecedented rise in the institutionalization of fear as public policy in the United States. This is of course primarily due to the attacks of 9/11, but not because of the terrorist attacks. The institutionalization of…

Jon Udell – A conversation with Rohit Khare about syndication-oriented architecture: „Start by “RSSifying” everything in sight. Then flow all the feeds through a “syndication bus”.“

Greg Beaver – Do you develop a website? It is infinitely better to synchronize live and development sites using the PEAR Installer: „This is the missing piece of the 4 most common synchronization methods: it’s really hard to fix mistakes made. You will still make mistakes when using the PEAR Installer, the difference is that…

Greg Beaver – Update to libxml2 in PHP – progress hath been acquired: „I am abandoning the creation of a relax NG schema in favor of the battle-tested xsd. The error messages for xsd validation are far clearer than the rng ones.“ W3C Schema/Relax NG/DTD seem to be totally useless in PHP, help?: „Now that…

Joel Spolsky – Seattle: „If you ever started a new project by writing code, and you thought you’d “design as you went along,” what you’re doing is driving around with the handbrakes on. Here’s why. Designing a feature by writing a thoughtful spec takes about 1/10th as much time as writing the code for that…

Andrew Tetlaw at SitePoint – Watch out for CouchDB: „A view is a dynamic structure that acts like a search query, providing a virtual table of documents matching the query. The query, previously expressed in a proprietary language, is now a JavaScript function which is used to determine which documents to include in the view.…

Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog – Invent This Product: „When the vacation is over, the scrapbook is 85% complete. You just have to check its assumptions and add/correct any descriptors you want. You could run it as a slide show, with a little icon of a car traveling from location to location on the…

„JSJaC is a jabber client library written in JavaScript to ease implementation of web based jabber clients.“ There’s a separate page about the 1.0 branch.

Rick Jelliffe at XML.com – The fall of the Desktop and the File and the rise of Topical Interfaces and Topical Documents: „The rise of Topics represents a great challenge to operating system and desktop suite vendors. When we look at Windows, or Mac or Linux window managers, we see that they really interact with…