Jahr: 2009

Robert Stackowiak at O’Reilly Broadcast – Oracle Set-up & Management of HP Oracle Database Machine: „Much of the advertising for the HP Oracle Database Machine is about performance speedup. In real workload tests, many of Oracle’s customers are seeing far more than ten times performance improvement. […] Essentially, buyers of the platform need to choose…

Paul Graham – Keep Your Identity Small: „Anything else people make can be well or badly designed; why should this be uniquely impossible for programming languages? And indeed, you can have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of programming languages, so long as you exclude people who respond from identity. […] The most intriguing…

Michael Jon Jensen at O’Reilly Radar – For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Scary Humor: „Because the for-profit sector has few truly long-term interests, on the timescale of the unfolding disaster. („Human survival is a bonus, but that’s twenty years out. What about next quarter’s report?“) Further, the scale and scope of the impending collapse will require a…

Tony Byrne at CMS Watch – The case against Flex-based application UIs: „Flex applications are prone to the same memory leaks and CPU spikes that bedeviled applets for years. To be sure, I’ve seen some fat and ugly JavaScript-based interfaces too, but at least everyone can debug those openly.“

David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise – The bullshit of outage language: „Also, you should find someone willing to take personal responsibility. Even if it’s not directly their fault. There’s always someone who’s in charge, someone who stops the buck. Hiding behind a faceless “we” is weak.“

Jeff Atwood – Speed Still Matters: „What’s more important? Getting flash after 5 seconds, or functional no-frills layouts in less than a second? Let’s get our priorities straight. Speed still matters. And remember, the perception of speed is just as important as actual speed. If you can’t be fast, be clever.“

Network World – The Google-ization of Bechtel: „Dubbed the Project Services Network, Bechtel’s new strategy applies the SaaS computing model internally to provide IT services to 30,000 users, including 20,000 employees and eventually 10,000 subcontractors and other business partners. We operate „as a service provider to a set of customers that are our own [construction]…

The June 12, 2005 Commencement address by Steve Jobs at Stanford University: „For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: „If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?“ And whenever the answer has been…

Scott Adams – The Avatar: „If you went anywhere this weekend, you probably found yourself in conversations about this pilot and this event. And the thing you probably talked about was his outrageous level of competence. You might have gotten chills when you heard about it. Maybe you teared up. At the very least it…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise cites Christopher Alexander – Christopher Alexander on the difference between a fifty-year-old carpenter and a novice: „The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes.…