Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray – Wikipedia Notes: “As of today, there are 124 servers, fairly heterogeneous, although these days they’ve pretty well standardized on dual-Opteron boxes. The MediaWiki software is PHP-based, mostly running on Fedora; I wonder if this is the world’s largest-scale PHP deployment, or would Yahoo top that? They get a pretty good hit rate…

Oliver Rist at InfoWorld – Preview: Windows Workflow Foundation: “WWF creates a class of application that is rarely seen except when created through extraordinary effort: A distributed user-facing application. From a developer’s perspective, WWF is a toolbox of abstractions for workflow-related activities such as receiving and sending Web services calls, taking conditional branches from an…

John Allspaw (Flickr) has nice presentation slides titled Hardware Layouts for LAMP Installations [Powerpoint], talking about hardware requirements, MySQL load balancing and caching for large-scale LAMP installations.

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – Oracle 10g XE and PHP: “In case you missed it, yesterday Oracle announced a free (as in beer) version of their database – Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) – basically a ‘lite’ version – some industry analysis here. Significance of this move aside, more interesting is having a play. Managed…

Karl Fogel: “Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. Producing Open Source Software is available in bookstores, and you can browse or download it here.”

Adam Bosworth at ACM Queue – Learning from THE WEB: “Successful systems on the Web are bottom-up. They don’t mandate much in a top-down way. Instead, they control themselves through tipping points. For example, Flickr doesn’t tell its users what tags to use for photos. Far from it. Any user can tag any photo with…