Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

A good article on globalizing Oracle PHP applications, on the Oracle Technology Network: „From the developers point of view, creating a globalized application introduces a new set of issues that need to be carefully planned from the early stages. Luckily, PHP offers all the necessary building blocks so that the developer can implement fully globalized…

Joao Prado Maia’s introduction on using Gettext with PHP (ONLamp.com): „The majority of open source projects, such as Xchat and others, use Gettext to translate the messages and strings shown in their user interface to several languages. The same concept can easily be applied to a Web site or Web application, and that is the…

„The Dublin Core metadata element set set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description.“ It consists of the following elements: Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Source Language Relation Coverage Rights

Nice summary: Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

Tim Anderson’s „Why Tablet PC? The pros and cons of keyboards versus handwriting input and review of Acer C110 or C111“: „When Tablet was first launched I was unsure of the format’s long-term potential. I am deeply wedded to the keyboard, there is a hefty price premium, and twisting a Tablet screen to convert it…

Rich Skrenta explains why only RAM is fast: „A disk head seek is about 9ms, and the human perceptual threshold for what seems „instant“ is around 50ms. So if you have just one head seek per user request, you can support at most 5 hits/second on that server before users start to notice latency. If…

Nick Usborne at A List Apart: „If you want people to know how to find what they want on your site, be sure the language you use is relevant to their needs. At its simplest, this means avoiding corporate-speak and industry jargon. It means taking the trouble to find out which words and terms your…

Looks great: „WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.“

Java developer Russell Beattie is impressed by PHP projects: „What is it about PHP that makes it so good for web projects? On the face of it, it looks like half-ass Perl or or scriptlet-based JSP pages. I mean all the bad things we’re supposed to be getting away from with MVC and JSTL is…

Harry Fuecks publishes a sample chapter on caching from his „PHP Anthology“ book.