Jahr: 2007

Sam Ruby – Key + Data: „What do dynamo, memcached, Berkley DB, and couchdb have in common with each other, and in many ways with other structures like my hard drive or your mail or the www? Namely that everything is accessed by a primary key, and that metadata is either attached to, or embedded…

Jason Fried – Ask 37signals: Pressure to grow?: „We’ve intentionally set up our business so our headcount doesn’t need to grow linearly with our key business metrix. We’ve put self-serve at the core of our company. Self serve sign up, self serve upgrade, self serve downgrade, self serve cancellation. We’ve been constantly tweaking the UIs…

Ellyssa Kroski – Information Design for the New Web: „Website designers are keeping a simple and Zen-like layout by increasing line heights and adding lots of whitespace to pages. Instead of crowding the page with information overload, New Web designers are focusing on the essentials, and producing clean and fresh pages.“ (Via Nico Brünjes.)

Philip C. Plumlee at ONLamp.com – Big Requirements Up Front: „Phased delivery and merciless refactoring are not merely ways to prepare for unknowable requirements. They are a system to find a cheap path to a valuable goal. Even if the goal is well known, the path is not.“

„CLIPS is a tool for building expert systems. This PHP extension [PHLIPS] provides PHP with a basic interface to a CLIPS environment. Its purpose is to allow deployment of expert systems in PHP.“ Unfortunately the PHP extension doesn’t seem to be developed anymore…

Derek Sivers – 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails: „Ruby is prettier. Rails has nice shortcuts. But no big shortcuts I can’t code-up myself in a day if needed. Looked at from a real practical point of view, I could do anything in PHP, and there were many business…

„Whenever you create an email campaign, do you spend hours testing it in all your different email programs and ISP accounts and spam filters? Or do you just click „send“ and pray to the email gods? We feel your pain. That’s why we created the MailChimp Inbox Inspector…“

Todd Hoff – Log Everything All the Time: „But then I make each process have a command port hosting a simple embedded web server and telnet processor so you can change debug levels and other setting on the fly through the web or telnet interface. This is pretty handy in the field and during development.…

Joel Spolsky – Strategy Letter VI: „The third phase with PCs was Macintosh and Windows. A standard, consistent user interface with features like multiple windows and the Clipboard designed so that applications could work together. The increased usability and power we got out of the new GUIs made personal computing explode. So if history repeats…

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