Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Elizabeth Smith at PHP Advent 2008 – Less Whining, More Coding: „Download a PHP snapshot or release candidate, install it, and run your PHP application. If it breaks, report the bug! If more people would do this, fiascos like PHP 5.2.7 would not happen because the magic_quotes_gpc issue would have been caught and fixed.“

Gojko Adzic – Quality comes from cooperation: „Quality means different things to different people, Ambler [Chris Ambler, European test manager for Microsoft games] concluded [at XPDay 2008 in London]. He defined his meaning of it as: Progression: people can get through the software from the beginning to the end Stability: people should not have unexpected…

Clay Shirky back in 1997 –The Price of Information Has Fallen and It Can’t Get Up: „Once a product has entered the world of the freebies used to sell boxes of cereal, it will never become a direct source of user fees again. […] You might drive three miles to buy used baby clothes, thirty…

LDAP know-how at Novell Cool Solutions, from 2004 – LDIF Basics: „Change Records contain a set of commands for a particular entry (such as add, delete, or modify). They are used when you want to modify entries within your directory.“

Sean McGrath at ITworld – Unicode: „Let us start by looking at four main variables in the space : language, country, culture and technology. Language. Let us take that one first. How hard can that be? […] Oh dear, when we hit the Middle East we hit languages that drive the wrong way on the…

Scott Adams – The Nonfussy Pill: „The new poverty is likely to be different from anything that came before. Imagine a world where even the poor have good Internet access and universal healthcare. If you were healthy and could use the Internet to find everything else you needed, from borrowing a tool to organizing a…

Scott Adams – Google Is My Doctor: „Long story short, the operation I read about wasn’t as promising as the article suggested, but the final surgeon in my travels had his own version of surgery that had a good track record. I tried it, and now my voice is normal. I never would have found…

chromatic at O’Reilly Broadcast – The RIA and the Polyglot VM: „Of course, the obvious problem with this approach [of Silverlight, JavaFX, and Adobe AIR] is that a big blob of proprietary goo is only a solution for people who want to (or have permission to) get that goo all over their machines. Remember how…

Niels Hufnagl im SNAPlog – Eine Art LDAP für Metadaten?: „Ein halbes Jahr später. Gegen den Artikel wurde juristisch vorgegangen und dummerweise auch noch zu recht. Das kann vorkommen. Wer weiß jetzt noch, an welche Systeme er denken muß, wenn er den Artikel unternehmensweit sperren möchte? […] Mir kam bei der Diskussion so der Gedanke,…

Joel Spolsky at Inc.com – How Hard Could It Be?: My Style of Servant Leadership: „Our company was built on the idea of hiring smart and productive people and then clearing the decks. The late, great minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation, better known as DEC, was so adamant about this idea that people in the…