Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Russell Beattie, Rampaging Computer Science: „The problem is that much of the Java stuff out there is just written by really smart morons who seem to love complexity for complexity’s sake. Even in the API itself! Ever used the Calendar API? It’s written by a monkey. Ever check out the code under the JSTL? Those…

Clay Shirky wrote a great article on what he calls Situated Software: „Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in…

Jakob Nielsen on Productivity in the Service Economy: „It’s great to employ usability methods to simplify intranet user interfaces and expedite performance within existing tasks. Do it. Millions of dollars are waiting to be saved for the average company. But, as the saying goes, we should also work smarter. Enterprise software has largely failed until…

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld: „Deloitte has developed what it calls Industry Prints for some 20-plus industries, using data gathered from Deloitte’s interactions with various enterprise-level companies. An Industry Print details every single process that makes up an industry. It maps processes all the way from the 10,000-foot level (run HR, run customer support) down to…

Rich Bowen: „[I]f I was to pick on the most common unnecessary modules, I think I’d have to go for these ones. mod_imap mod_mime_magic mod_unique_id“

Dave Pollard dreams about personal knowledge management: „Highlighted on the virtual desktop are the current documents and messages that you last looked at. As it turns out, they consist of a report that you’re researching, a web page that you were half finished reading, and a message that you were composing in reply to the…

Sounds good: PEAR’s new version naming conventions. (Found via the ZZ/OSS weblog.)

John Neil on the Oracle Technology Network: „A case study in how the PHP/Oracle development Model reduced the application lifecycle at Myers Internet.“ Quote: „The quick turnaround times that PHP development affords allowed for the complete order entry part of the system to be fully prototyped, both visually and functionally, within a two-week period. This…

Sean Hull compares PHP and ASP.NET on the Oracle Technology Network: „In this article I’ll focus on PHP, the technology Oracle has chosen to incorporate into its products, and ASP.NET. […] In conclusion you’ll find a point-by-point comparison in terms of price, speed and efficiency, security, cross-platform support, and the advantages of an open source…

IPTC Metadata: Subject Reference System & NewsML Topicsets: „The IPTC creates and maintains for many years sets of terms to be assigned as metadata to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio- and video files and streams.“