Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tom Baeyens on The State of Workflow: „When talking about an RDBMS in a software development team most people will get the picture and shake their heads slightly up and down confirming they understand what you’re saying. When using workflow terminology, the same crowds will shake their heads similarly but this time, every person will…

Doug Ross on Return-codes vs. Exceptions: „Software quality, in general, sucks. The reason for this is that many developers are too lazy to instrument, monitor and and respond to all sorts of strange conditions. In other words, many of us are undisciplined. We’re more worried about „readability“ (and I disagree with that contention as well…

„hiercat is an automatic text classifier which uses the hierarchical structure of class labels to improve classification performance. The model it uses is that of Gaussier, et. al.“

George Schlossnagle on Scaling Oracle and PHP: „Learn generic techniques and designs for writing manageable, scalable, and fast PHP code that directly relate to using Oracle Database.“

Lauren Wood – What WordPress Does Right: „So here’s Lauren’s Product Management 101, using WordPress as the example. It’s easy to find out what the software does It does what it claims to It looks like people still work on it There’s some hope of getting help with problems“

Paul Graham essay on Taste for Makers: „Relativism is fashionable at the moment, and that may hamper you from thinking about taste, even as yours grows. But if you come out of the closet and admit, at least to yourself, that there is such a thing as good and bad design, then you can start…

Martin Roberts on Workflow versus Process Automation: „When a Process fails where do you need to route the fault to? Normally a human – so why do most tools make this a cumbersome task? Why do these so called next generation tools find dealing with people such an alien idea? I believe the answer lies…

Dale Asberry on the importancy of loose coupling – Why is Distributed so Hard?: „In some ways, marriage vows do a disservice to the richer subtleties in intimate human interaction. Namely, two people don’t come together to become one, they come together to become three! There will always be the self and the other. The…

„Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval library, released under the GPL. It’s written in C , and bindings are under development to allow use from other languages (Perl, Python, and PHP are working; Java will be available shortly). Xapian is designed to be a highly adaptable toolkit to allow developers to easily add…

Ken Arnold on the The Sum of Ant: „Ant is nothing more than the sum of its parts By this I mean that ant has not learned the basic power of composition, building things out smaller parts. This was the great insight that our Unix forbearers bequeathed us toolsmiths, and it’s pretty sad to see…