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2002-07-24

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Tobi Schäfer in seiner Eigenschaft als Inhaltsverwaltungs-Rechercheur: "for small websites which do not need heavy (pseudo) content management features at all (which is the case for the project i did the current research for), i would rather build a custom system from scratch with a scripting language of my choice than trying to learn another concept superstructure for achieving the same in twice the time." — How right. The sweet spot between useful substrate and superstructure overcomplexification is a tough one to find ...

2002-07-24-!cms

Der Flash Communication Server scheint zu halten, was Macromedia versprochen hat. Eine minimale Chat-Applikation ist problemlos in ~ 15 Zeilen möglich und auch sonst scheint damit alles, was das kollaborative Herz je begehrt haben mochte einfacher geworden zu sein als je zuvor.

2002-07-24-flashcom

Warren Buffet: "Who Really Cooks the Books?" — "In calculating the pension costs that directly affect their earnings, companies in the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks are today using assumptions about investment return rates that go as high as 11 percent. The rate chosen is important: in many cases, an upward change of a single percentage point will increase the annual earnings a company reports by more than $100 million."

2002-07-24-warrenWarns