Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Henrik de Gyor at Digital Asset Management – Can a DAM handle Rights Managed assets?: „Can a DAM handle Rights Managed assets? This is far more than an issue of storing Rights Managed assets in a DAM and associating some metadata which state the terms of the asset. […] What if you have multiple licenses…

Michael Jon Jensen at O’Reilly Radar – For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Scary Humor: „Because the for-profit sector has few truly long-term interests, on the timescale of the unfolding disaster. („Human survival is a bonus, but that’s twenty years out. What about next quarter’s report?“) Further, the scale and scope of the impending collapse will require a…

Paul Graham – Keep Your Identity Small: „Anything else people make can be well or badly designed; why should this be uniquely impossible for programming languages? And indeed, you can have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of programming languages, so long as you exclude people who respond from identity. […] The most intriguing…

Robert Stackowiak at O’Reilly Broadcast – Oracle Set-up & Management of HP Oracle Database Machine: „Much of the advertising for the HP Oracle Database Machine is about performance speedup. In real workload tests, many of Oracle’s customers are seeing far more than ten times performance improvement. […] Essentially, buyers of the platform need to choose…

Tony Byrne at CMS Watch – The case against Flex-based application UIs: „Flex applications are prone to the same memory leaks and CPU spikes that bedeviled applets for years. To be sure, I’ve seen some fat and ugly JavaScript-based interfaces too, but at least everyone can debug those openly.“