Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Jon Udell on InfoWorld – „Filling in the margins“: „As I watch the students typing at the Dell PCs in the hallway, I realize that none of these kids has ever seen or used a card catalog. That’s mostly a good thing. But when I joined a group of librarians on a panel last month,…

Jim Westbrook on NewsForge: „K.D. had watched her mom, my wife, and me using the various Linux-based computers in our home since she was able to sit in our laps while we were at the keyboard. By the time she was two and a half years old, she was „helping“ us by moving the mouse…

The German Berliner Arbeitskreis Information compiled a directory of Software for Information Management (in German only).

Mark Pilgrim on XML.com – Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content: „So you want to write a program to read RSS and Atom syndicated feeds. Sounds simple enough. After all, RSS stands for „Really Simple Syndication“ (or „Rich Site Summary“, or „RDF Site Summary“, or something), and Atom is just RSS with different tag names, right? Well,…

Harry Fuecks on Mozilla visions: „Via Mozillazine, a fascinating post by Brendan Eich, the father of Javascript and Mozilla’s chief architect. This is fiesty stuff. Brendan basically lays out his view of how things are might play out, over the next five years, in the „battle“ to control the application development and deployment platform of…

David Fischer has compiled a well-written list of Web Application Security Tips (available in German only).

„memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.“ There’s a PECL package providing a PHP API for memcached… (thanks Thieso for the hint.)