Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Ben Meyer – Grandma’s don’t use computers: “So who should software developers target for their easy of use testing? Who can’t wont put up with software that is hard to use? Middle aged men that have kids or commonly referred to as “dads“. They are young enough to know about the latest technology, old enough…

Simon Willison – Google Base is interesting: “Base is a very interesting product for a whole bunch of reasons. The data model is surprisingly simple on the surface: all items have a title, description, (optional) external URL, a “type” and a set of labels (a.k.a. tags) and “attributes“. Attributes are something for tag enthusiasts to…

“Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Developed and used over the past two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed from scratch to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of experienced Web developers. It has convenient niceties…

“Dabble combines the best of group spreadsheets, custom databases, and intranet web applications into a new way to manage and share your information online.”

“Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may…

Richard Davey – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: “The ease of developing with PHP has lead to the creation of this script gold mine, and while it can be a wonder to explore there are many factors you should take into consideration before going on a downloading frenzy. Will the script you are…

“Wikidata is a proposed wiki-like database for various types of content. This project as proposed here requires significant changes to the software (or possibly a completely new software) but has the potential to centrally store and manage data from all Wikimedia projects, and to radically expand the range of content that can be built using…

chromatic – Maybe it’s Not Just Ruby on Rails: “In my mind, the issue isn’t “Ruby on Rails is more flexible and capable than standard J2EE or .NET for any project under a (very high) threshold of complexity“. The real point is that the simplicity, flexibility, and abstraction possibilities offered by dynamic languages and well-designed…

Paul Prescod – Reinventing Email using REST: “As an educational tool, this article will describe how to re-engineer a familiar application, email, as a Web Service using HTTP and the principles of Web Architecture and REpresentational State Transfer.”

“Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browsers, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. […] Installed with your application webserver, Selenium automatically deploys it’s JavaScript automation engine – the Browser Bot – to your browser…