Jahr: 2004

Jon Udell on InfoWorld – Capturing user experience closes the feedback loop: „For developers who rarely get to see people using their software, any opportunity to observe users is likely to provide valuable insight. Arguably such observation can, and should, occur throughout the software life cycle. A software team will often nominate one member to…

Howard Feldman – Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting: „Whatever it was, I determined to find out what was going on. How hard could it be? What I found was not at all what I expected. The story was interesting enough that I thought it worth sharing. Perhaps you’ll find ways to apply some of the…

Derek Sivers – Programming is like Songwriting: „As I get more and more into programming, I’m constantly struck with how similar it feels to songwriting. […] – It makes me jump out of bed at 2 AM wanting to try the ideas in my head to see if they work. – Being the programmer in…

Tom Baeyens on The State of Workflow: „When talking about an RDBMS in a software development team most people will get the picture and shake their heads slightly up and down confirming they understand what you’re saying. When using workflow terminology, the same crowds will shake their heads similarly but this time, every person will…

„hiercat is an automatic text classifier which uses the hierarchical structure of class labels to improve classification performance. The model it uses is that of Gaussier, et. al.“

Doug Ross on Return-codes vs. Exceptions: „Software quality, in general, sucks. The reason for this is that many developers are too lazy to instrument, monitor and and respond to all sorts of strange conditions. In other words, many of us are undisciplined. We’re more worried about „readability“ (and I disagree with that contention as well…

George Schlossnagle on Scaling Oracle and PHP: „Learn generic techniques and designs for writing manageable, scalable, and fast PHP code that directly relate to using Oracle Database.“

Lauren Wood – What WordPress Does Right: „So here’s Lauren’s Product Management 101, using WordPress as the example. It’s easy to find out what the software does It does what it claims to It looks like people still work on it There’s some hope of getting help with problems“

Paul Graham essay on Taste for Makers: „Relativism is fashionable at the moment, and that may hamper you from thinking about taste, even as yours grows. But if you come out of the closet and admit, at least to yourself, that there is such a thing as good and bad design, then you can start…

Martin Roberts on Workflow versus Process Automation: „When a Process fails where do you need to route the fault to? Normally a human – so why do most tools make this a cumbersome task? Why do these so called next generation tools find dealing with people such an alien idea? I believe the answer lies…