Many times when developing a custom website, a clients needs to be given the ability to edit the text directly from an administration section. As many people don't know the nuts and bolts of html, they have to use a simple editor to create their markup. This article discuses the pros/cons of the most used online text editors.
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Right wing slams White House for meeting with atheist ‘hate groups’
Some conservative commentators are accusing the Obama administration of inviting "hate groups" into the White House by holding a meeting with a coalition of secularist and atheist groups.
Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King
Ryan King from Twitter talks to MyNoSql regarding the transition from MySQL and memcache to Cassandra NoSql for the data storage needs.
Nokia, Intel Merge Moblin, Maemo Into MeeGo
Intel and Nokia have just announced a partnership in which they will merge Maemo and Moblin into a new product called "MeeGo", aimed at just about any type of device you can imagine. This is one of the rare (but very welcome!) moments of convergence in the mobile Linux space.
KDE SC 4.4 Released
And there we are, the KDE team has released KDE Software Compilation 4.4, formerly known as, well, KDE. Major new features include social networking and online collaboration integration, the new netbook interface, the KAuth authentication framework, and a lot more.
The end of SQL and relational databases?
The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd's paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970. His colleagues at IBM, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce were working on a query language (originally named SQUARE, Specifying Queries As Relational Expressions) that culminated in the 1974 paper, "SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language". Since that time, SQL has become the dominant language for relational database systems. In recent years, frameworks and architectures have arrived on the programming scene that attempt to hide (or completely remove) the use of SQL and relational databases allowing developers to focus even more on user interfaces, business logic and platform support in our application development. We have also seen the rise of alternatives to relational databases, the so-called "NoSQL" data stores. Are we witnessing the end of SQL and relational databases?
Facebook's HipHop Goes Public With a New PHP Runtime
The open source dynamic scripting language PHP is widely deployed across the Web, powering countless Web sites (including the Internet.com network). Now Facebook is aiming to change the game with today's release of a major new PHP effort called HipHop.
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime
Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software. I'm not really sure of any of the details of the project, but I do know that Facebook hired someone two years ago to do this, and I'm relatively sure this was a one-man project during that entire time.
How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong - Smashing Magazine
GIFs of spinning @s on the “Contact us” page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load. Home page banner of a jigsaw-puzzle globe with a piece missing. Sometimes you just know that what a client is requesting is wrong and that you have to find a way to tell them. But how?
Evolving Frameworks: A Pattern Language for Developing Object-Oriented Frameworks
Developing a good framework is expensive. A framework must be simple enough to be learned, yet must provide enough features that it can be used quickly and hooks for the features that are likely to change. It must embody a theory of the problem domain, and is always the result of domain analysis, whether explicit and formal, or hidden and informal.