Jahr: 2008

Paul Graham – Be Good: „There are many advantages of launching quickly, but the most important may be that once you have users, the tamagotchi effect kicks in. Once you have users to take care of, you’re forced to figure out what will make them happy, and that’s actually very valuable information.“

„“Seek” adds faceted browsing features to Mozilla Thunderbird and lets you search through your email more effectively.“

Gojko Adzic – The waterfall trap for “agile” projects: „Because increments are done in detail, a lot of effort is wasted when a piece needs rework (and the initial releases are almost certain to fall into this category). Iterative development offers a chance to see the picture from the start, and guide the development towards…

Rob Bieber – Agile / Lean or Common Sense and Permission To Change?: „What Semler’s story shows me is that if people are given the freedom to work the way that is most effective, they will. More than that, if you invest in them with trust, they will want to do these things as their…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Excerpts from Ricardo Semler’s book „Maverick: The Success Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace“ (citing Ricardo Semler’s Maverick): „In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest – quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for…

Eric Sink – Yours, Mine and Ours: „In terms of the size of the canyon, ThemWare is probably the worst possible scenario. If I am building software that I don’t use and don’t know how to use for people I don’t understand or even like, how good is my software going to be? I probably…

Timothy M. O’Brien at the O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Faster than expected… (Salesforce, Google + EC2 with Disks): „When you can fire up Eclipse and deploy a custom application to Salesforce to have it show up for your users in the context of Google Apps (Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar, Google Docs), your own in-house applications…

FDI fonts.info believes in the future of web fonts

Joel Spolsky at Inc.com – Fire and Motion: „If your competitors are really solving a problem in a unique way, you won’t miss out by focusing on your own customers. Rest assured that your customers are already trying to tell you that this opportunity exists, if you’ll only listen. A minute spent understanding the competition…

Ben Martin at Linux.com – Inspecting disk IO performance with fio: „The vast array of ways that fio can issue its IO requests lends it to benchmarking IO patterns and the use of various APIs to perform that IO. You can also run identical fio configurations on different filesystems or underlying hardware to see what…