The Ws of weblogging. Sam Ruby has kicked off a fascinating discussion to distill the technical aspects of weblogging, in The Anatomy of a Well-Formed Log Entry. [dive into mark]
Month: June 2003
Getting Under the Hood of the Macromedia XML News Aggregator Sample Application
Getting Under the Hood of the Macromedia XML News Aggregator Sample Application by Daniel Dura and Josh Dura [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]
Get Connected with ColdFusion and the Data Connection Kit
Get Connected with ColdFusion and the Data Connection Kit by Ben Forta [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]
McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection
McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection. Quote: “Excellent material on the challenges of building in the necessary time for reflection to power organizational learning and change. One interesting aspect to this line of thought is that reflection has to become an explicit process for it to work at the operating pace of today's economy”… Continue reading McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection
Insider on the US war against terror
Insider on the US war against terror. Here's a Washington Post interview with Rand Beers, a former National Security Council aide who quit working for Bush to work for John Kerry's campaign. The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure,” said… Continue reading Insider on the US war against terror
Tim Bray on Search
Tim Bray on Search. Tim Bray has posted the first of what he says will be a series of articles on search technology. It looks like he's off to a good start…. [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
Cover Letters
Cover Letters. Here's some advice for people writing cover letters. Don't take any of the standard career-services-office advice for writing cover letters, or your cover letter will look exactly like everyone else's cover letter. If you write one of those “I work great on teams but am also a strong independent worker” cover letters, your… Continue reading Cover Letters
Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet
News.Com: Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet. The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or “blogs”), must offer a “right of reply” to those who have been criticized by a person or organization. [Tomalak's Realm]
Setting Software Free
Steve Gillmor has a great article, The Alchin Tax
Setting Software Free Steve Gillmor has a great article, The Alchin Tax, about where Microsoft is locating its XML editor and when. Basically (to cut to the bottom line), Microsoft may be building on standards, but it's planning on offering the product inside its operating system in the 2005/6 timeframe. That means: You can't use… Continue reading
Setting Software Free
Steve Gillmor has a great article, The Alchin Tax
Is Java really more scalable than PHP?
Is Java really more scalable than PHP?. Recently, Michael Kimsal posted this message: Yes, a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) can store stuff in memory, while PHP generally needs to store stuff in an external session (file or db). That also means that moving to more than one front end web server is a piece of… Continue reading Is Java really more scalable than PHP?