Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

A classic: Eric Steven Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

Joel comments on the awfully large .NET runtime: „So Microsoft, wake up, get us some nice 1950s-era linker technology, and let me make a single EXE that runs on any computer with Win 98 or later and no other external dependencies. Otherwise .NET is fatally flawed for consumer, downloaded software.“

An interesting variation of the Wiki theme: „Confluence is a knowledge management tool designed to make it easy for a team to share information with each other, and with the world.“

Fun with PHP – Nitesh Dhanjani: „In the process of auditing web applications for security flaws, I will also present a PHP script that will act as a web proxy server, allowing us to intercept and alter HTTP requests between the web browser and the target web server. As we will see, this PHP script…

Jon Udell: „Email is where most of our contextual information is created and exchanged, but where none of XML’s contextual power is brought to bear. Here, by the way, Microsoft completely dropped the ball. The only Office 2003 application in which users can’t create and use XML content is Outlook. But that’s precisely where the…

An interview with Ward Cunningham: „I actually enjoy complexity that’s empowering. If it challenges me, the complexity is very pleasant. But sometimes I must deal with complexity that’s disempowering. The effort I invest to understand that complexity is tedious work. It doesn’t add anything to my abilities. A friend of mine once said that there…

You don’t have to love everything Microsoft, but it’s great that they make Windows Media Encoder 9 available for free. Jon Udell: „Software companies bring in new users, capture their interactions with software on video, and make developers watch the videos. I’ve been on the receiving end of that treatment; it’s painful. […] Windows Media…

Rick Jelliffe: „At the moment, the web uses an ad hoc mix of defaults (ASCII for pre-90s standards, ISO 8859-1 for early 90s standards, UTF-8 for recent standards), out-of-data headers (such as MIME headers), voluntary in-data signals (such as HTML’s meta tag), magic numbers (such as XML’s encoding header), browser and server settings, hidden attributes…

Adam Trachtenberg at ONLamp.com: „This article shows how to use SimpleXML to read an XML file, parse the results into a useful form, and query the document with XPath. I use RSS for the examples, since some versions of RSS are nice and easy. Then there’s RSS 1.0. It uses RDF, multiple namespaces, and defines…

To do: Test apd, the advanced PHP debugger. Here’s a nice article on using APD: PHP Freaks: Profiling PHP’s Performance