Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

“SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, ‘folksonomies’, other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept schemes embedded in glossaries and terminologies. The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), that can be…

“How long will it take you to recover? Will you spend hours finding your way through log files and other IT data? Splunk is the new way to see inside the data center. It’s search software that indexes all your fast moving IT data as it happens.”

Chris Shiflett – The Truth about Sessions: “This article introduces some techniques that can reliably provide statefulness as well as defend against session-based attacks such as impersonation (session hijacking).”

“Prince is a computer program that converts XML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.”

“Alfresco is an open source, open-standards content repository built by the most experienced content management team that includes the co-founder of Documentum.” (Take a look at the tour and the architecture diagram.)

John Lim – The fine art of programming: “Here’s a list of excellent online programming guides that i am compiling.”

Derick Rethans’ minutes of the PHP Developers Meeting in Paris November 11th and 12th, 2005, planning for PHP 6 – some interesting excerpts: 1.1 Unicode on/off modes: “[…] We also discussed whether we should even allow Unicode mode to be turned off as current micro benchmarks show that the Unicode implementations of some of the…

Matt Rand at Forbes.com – Open Source Invades the Enterprise: “Pfizer recently embarked on a $25,000 pilot program, where it set up an open-source LAMP architecture next to BEA’s Weblogic J2EE software. It used each software framework to build an application that pulled data from an Oracle database. What surprised Pfizer’s Martin Brodbeck, the director…

Michael Nash at developer.com – Decoupling Application Logic, Persistence, and Flow: The Model Technique: “The next step beyond separation of persistence and business logic can be the separation of the application control flow. Business logic classes in this case are written in such a way that they are unaware of how they were called, or…

Kevin Farnham at ONLamp.com – Analyzing Statistics with GNU R: “Even for people who aren’t expert statisticians, the power of R is alluring. Working interactively or using an R script, with just a few lines of code a user can perform complex analyses of large data sets, produce graphics depicting the features and structure of…