Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Sean McGrath at ITworld.com – I’ll push and you pull. The mashup approach to application integration: „The mashup phenomenon begs a very pertinent question: can all application integration scenarios that we naturally express in push-centric language, be implemented with pull-centric designs? Is there a limit to what you can do with a mashup – something…

Sam Ruby – Long Bets: „Here’s my long bets for the moment, with the only caveat that in some cases I pick specific implementations as exemplars of a larger field. REST Hadoop Erlang/OTP Jabber Microformats„

Joe ‚Zonker‘ Brockmeier at Linux.com – Mozilla begets WebRunner, a site-specific browser: „To provide a more suitable tool for Web-based apps, Mozilla Platform Evangelist Mark Finkle has been working on WebRunner, a site-specific browser (SSB) that’s designed to work exclusively with one application at a time.“

„Live Forms is the easiest way to create rich, Web 2.0 forms using just a browser. Whether you need a simple e-mail registration form, forms that work with your database or powerful business forms for working with XML, Live Forms helps you create amazing forms without writing a single line of code.“

Eliot Kimber – InDesign CS3 and XML Authoring: Could be Good: „The main gotcha here is that InDesign is sensitive to newlines in the XML data, because newlines trigger the application of paragraph styles. What I’ve found so far is that you have to manage the text content very carefully so that you only emit…

Uche Ogbuji at XML.com – Introducing OpenSearch: „Search and web feeds go together pretty naturally, as anyone who has set up some kind of vanity search feed knows. […] Rather than having to poll the search engine yourself and having to remember which results you have seen, your reader will simply alert you when there…

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Joe Gregorio – ETech ’07 Summary – Part 2 – MegaData: „If you want to scale to the petabyte level, or the billion requests a day, you need to be: Distributed The data has to be distributed across multiple machines. Joinless No joins, and no referential integrity, at least at the data store level. De-Normalized…

Charles Miller – Understanding Engineers: Feasibility: „Non-trivial contains dangerous unknowns. Some part of it is not yet understood, or lies outside the range of things the programmer has done before, or can quickly imagine a workable solution to. The more experienced the programmer who tells you a problem is non-trivial, the more concerned you should…

cgisecurity.net – Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) questions and answers: „What can I do to protect my own applications? Setting a short time peroid for user sessions is essential. Sites requiring the user to be logged in before performing an action can set the users session to a short session period (say 5 minutes) to…