Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Clay Shirky in a Columbia Journalism Review interview by Russ Juskalian – Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I: „It seems to me, in fact, from the historical record, that the idea of literary reading as a sort of broad and normal activity was done in by television, and it was done in forty years ago.…

Search Components Online – Search Vendors Directory: „So who are the main players in Enterprise Search?“

Tim Bray – Mobile Gold: „We are, right now in early 2009, sliding into the golden age of mobile technology and business. […] What’s crucial is that there will be at least four players—all with healthy finances and real engineering depth—vying to build devices to improve your life. Which is wonderful! This kind of competition…

Gojko Adzic – Lazy web sites run faster: „Clever choice of asynchronous processing is definitely one of the most important decisions in any enterprise system. This is especially true for Web sites, where it absolutely plays a key role. Here are a few ideas to think about when deciding how to split the work.“ Also…

Atul Varma – Beautifully Documented Code: „I wasn’t very pleased with the typography of the generated content—though obviously the aesthetics were customizable through CSS, none of the default stylesheets left me dying to read the documentation I created. I’ve always had these kinds of hangups when it comes to design; a lack of it repels…

PHP still serves us great, it’s very stable and usually painless to work with. But this week I’ve spent some quality time with PHP 5.3 (alpha4-dev) since our long-running PHP command line scripts were (still) leaking memory… So I reported my third memory leak in PHP today, bug #47038 (the older ones were bug #46889…

„Mapeed.AddressChooser is a Javascript script to create a nice address form for any websites that need to collect addresses. […] Interactive map display location while you are typing an address.“ (Via Ajaxian.)

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise – iPhoto ’09 and Domain Language: „There is a strong tendency to use the same words that you see other software using. Be cautious about copying domain language, because copying language is copying a whole approach. Think through the domain yourself. What are people trying to do? What do…

Scott Adams – Future of your Phone: „Imagine wondering how long the line is to an event, or what a particular forest fire looks like, for example. You send a query through your iPhone for anyone who is in that area, according to GPS tracking, and ask for a look. A kind stranger takes your…

Jeff Atwood – Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive: „Incidentally, this is also why failing to outfit your (relatively) highly paid programmers with decent equipment as per the Programmer’s Bill of Rights is such a colossal mistake. If a one-time investment of $4,000 on each programmer makes them merely 5% more productive, you’ll break even…