Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Brian Goldfarb from Microsoft liked attending PHPCon, and John Coggeshall wonders why Microsoft might care about PHP. And David Sklar thinks there’s a Virtual Machine War going on between Parrot and CLR, especially now that Thies and Sterling started talking PHP/Parrot…

PHP Freaks reprints a Linux Journal article on Profiling with APD.

Dion Almaer (focused on Java, but interesting nevertheless): „This article discusses how caching data in front of the database can give our DB a break, and allow for faster running, and more available applications. In particular, We will look at: What is clustering? Using a distributed cache Caching strategies Read-through / Write-behind caching Technologies that…

Mark Sigal dreams of The inter-personal information manager: „One such tool that is needed I will call an inter-personal information manager (iPim). […] This iPim has seven key functions: search, save, organize, share, publish, play and transact. […] Ideally, the iPim can support traditional discussion-style threads, maintain associations between related content items (e.g., a product…

Jon Udell’s question: „Is all take and no give the dirty little secret of the open source movement?“ „Flashline sells a repository-based software asset management system. He [CEO Charles Stack] told us that his customers indeed manage lots of open source assets in that repository. What they don’t do, though, is share their modifications to…

PHP Everywhere: „With any of the following natural born killers, one thoughtless line of code can result in a unbearable x100 times slowdown: SQL statements Regular expressions Network calls“

PHP Everywhere lets us know that Thies Arntzen and Sterling Hughes are experimenting with PHP running in Perl 6’s Parrot VM (here’s a PDF of their slides). They say it’s FAST…

Jakob Nielsen talks about the „About Us“ page: „Saying who you are and what you do is basic politeness in any conversation. In business, it’s also good to establish credibility and respect by explaining your company’s origins, how you view your business, and how you relate to the community. The Web is very depersonalized, but…

Jon Udell: „During my session at BloggerCon I referred to Apple’s famous Knowledge Navigator concept video. I first saw that video in 1988. Today I tracked down a copy and watched it again. It stands the test of time rather well! Certain elements of that vision are now routine — for example, Google found me…

Using the JSRS Javascript Remote Scripting library (or is it this one?), it seems to be very easy to make server requests from an HTML page without reloading it…