Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML, gets excited about OpenOffice – seems like good software is made in Hamburg, Germany 🙂 … „The way that these guys store the data is massively, fiendishly, outrageously clever. They have their own XML tag set, which includes (in one namespace) all the basic word-processing, spreadsheet, and…

Jason Cook wrote an article on GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF and FOAF, on webmonkey: „Well, META’s not dead. In the pages that follow, I’ll be giving you a bird’s eye view of a few independent technologies, each aspiring to get useful metadata back into the Web. Some are homegrown, some corporate, and some academic,…

Microsoft Internet Explorer is dead, Mozilla is just so much better. This is not geek toy evangelism, it’s the plain truth. In case you didn’t know this yet, read Jon Udell: „During Mozilla’s long nuclear winter, I stuck with IE because I wasn’t willing to live with compromises. Then the tables turned. Suddenly, IE was…

XML.com: „Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP“ „There are many available scripting languages that support web services. PHP is one such language, with a powerful arsenal of open source functions and tools. In this article, we will compare and contrast three methods of consuming and producing web services: XML-RPC, SOAP and REST.“

A totally non-IT-related note: I love Le Fay’s bass guitars – take a look at their picture gallery! (I own an old Pangton.)

Kendall Grant Clark starts a new column on XML.com, called „Hacking the Library“: „That’s the curious space I and others like me inhabit today: Digital, but not purely digital; analog, but not only analog. We live in the space between these two, in the space carved out by their now haphazard, now principled mixture. It…

Kimbro Staken introduces Syncato (which was developed by him) on XML.com: „To many people, weblogs are simply a way to post their writing to the Web. For me weblogs are a personal data repository where you can store all kinds of information that you want to make publicly available. This includes, of course, writing, but…

„MOZiE is an extremely light-weight, free Windows application that allows web designers the ability to compare page rendering in Mozilla and Internet Explorer by embedding Gecko — via the Mozilla ActiveX control — in an HTML page that sits above an iframe displaying MSHTML-rendering, running as an HTA.“

Eric M. Burke: „What I have not seen, however, is a good system for preventing stale documentation. The concept is pretty simple. Provide an RSS feed for the least recently modified pages on your web site. Or maybe configure several parameters such as how many page views pages get, how many people link to those…

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: „Here are just few examples of the BMW 745i’s clueless interaction design: * Response times are incredibly slow. Each time you select something, you must wait several seconds for the next screen to appear. It’s common to ridicule German engineers for their ignorance of customer needs, but no hardcore engineer should ever…