Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

dotCMS – What’s New in 1.5?: „WebDAV access to CMS File Repository“ PHProjekt – Summer of PHProjekt Addons: „PFolders is a WebDAV Interface for PHProjekt which enables you to access the file repository of the filemanager from PHProjekt without the web interface of PHProjekt.“ KnowledgeTree – Release Notes for Version 3.4.5: “ WebDAV and Network…

Joel Spolsky – Evidence Based Scheduling: „Individual development tasks are easy to estimate, because you’ve written subroutines, created dialogs, and parsed files before. If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., “Implement Ajax photo editor”), then you haven’t thought about what you are going to do. In detail. Step by step. And when…

„Alfresco JLAN uses a virtual file system interface that allows you to plug in your own file system implementation with the core server handling all of the network protocol exchange between the client and server. JLAN is also the only Java implementation of Window’s CIFS (Common Internet File System), in addition to supporting NFS and…

Ed Stevenson at Really Strategies Blog – One of the best search experiences: „On kayak.com, you are offered a set of dials and levers for adjusting the query, such as eliminating airlines, changing departure time frames, or looking for the shortest trip. You want to leave between 10 and 12, just move the dial and…

Greg Miller at MacTech – Exploring Leopard with DTrace: „A few years back, Sun Microsystems developed DTrace: a new and innovative way to trace running software on live systems. DTrace enables developers and administrators to „see“ what their code, and others‘ code, is doing in a flexible and dynamic way. With the release of Leopard,…

Sam Madden in The Database Column – Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability: „Because shared nothing [as in IBM DB2] does not typically have nearly as severe bus or resource contention as shared-memory [MySQL] or shared-disk [Oracle RAC] machines, shared nothing can be made to scale to hundreds or even thousands of machines. Because of…