Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Bill Venners interviewed by Chris Adamson at ONJava.com – Ruby the Rival: „I don’t know much about Rails other than that it has been well marketed. The Rails marketeers drummed one message over and over, that Rails helps you build web apps quickly. Everyone has received this message loud and clear. It was a very…

Nathaniel S. H. Brown – DateBocks, the new, intuitive date input selection for your forms: „We use common terms in english to express how we identify a date coming up, or a date in the past. Such as “Next Tuesday”, “Last Month”, or even as simple as “Friday”. We clearly know which date that identifies,…

Eliot Kimber – Office Open XML: Good or Evil?: „Oh, and I hate MS Word with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. I’d sooner chew off my own arm than spend any time actually authoring words in Word. I’ve spent so many years authoring XML that having to deal with $*%&# like doing…

Luke Wroblewski – Refining Data Tables: „After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial…

Alan Kay back in 1998 – prototypes vs classes was: Re: Sun’s HotSpot (via M. David Peterson): „The big idea is „messaging“ — that is what the kernal of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it’s something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase). The Japanese have a small word — ma —…

„XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and browser-based content management systems (IE/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/Safari/Netscape). The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, uses CSS for formatting, and ensures the clean separation of content from presentation. Markup generated by XStandard meets the most demanding accessibility requirements. The editor’s cool features include drag &…

Avi Bryant – The internets are made of tubes: „With Dabble, anyone can now import data from a feed, combine it with data from elsewhere, restructure and filter it as needed, and push it out as another feed so the process can repeat.“

Interesting article on heise open / TN3 – Dokumentenmanagement mit Open Source [in German]: „Dokumentenmanagement ist mehr als eine Technologie, es ist eine der Königsdisziplinen in der Unternehmensorganisation. Es setzt fachübergreifendes Wissen und ein Gesamtverständnis vom Innenleben der Unternehmen, Organisationen und öffentlichen Verwaltungen voraus. Dokumenten-Management-Systeme (DMS) können ein wichtiges Werkzeug sein, aber nur, wenn sie…

Joel Spolsky – Language Wars: „These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms (C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python) that are all equally likely to make you successful. […] I for one am scared of Ruby…

Graham Charters at IBM developerWorks – Using Service Data Objects to construct XML: „The code extract below shows how SDO can be used to load the XML schema and a quotes document and then add a new quote entry to that document.“