Jahr: 2009

chromatic at O’Reilly Broadcast – What are Your Force Multipliers in Software Development?: „I can’t imagine a world without diff and patch. On the occasion when I need to massage a patch by hand, I recognize how fortunate we are to be able to identify only the differences between systems.“

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Hard Work and Practice in Programming: „There’s a long arc in computing that teaches us how much we gain through advances in ease-of-use, with the iPhone being the latest breakthrough success. But it’s important to remember how much we lose when we think that ease of use is everything.…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – „You have to treat your employees like customers“: „Over the years, whenever reporters would ask him the secret to Southwest’s success, Mr. Kelleher had a stock response. “You have to treat your employees like customers,” he told Fortune in 2001. “When you treat them right, then they will…

Gojko Adzic – The tale of two bridges: „Understanding why something is required, instead of just blindly following the tasks, is definitely one of the key practices to improve the chances of success in a software project. In my article The magic of goals, I suggested that whenever a client comes with a list of…

Clay Shirky in a Columbia Journalism Review interview by Russ Juskalian – Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I: „It seems to me, in fact, from the historical record, that the idea of literary reading as a sort of broad and normal activity was done in by television, and it was done in forty years ago.…

Search Components Online – Search Vendors Directory: „So who are the main players in Enterprise Search?“

Tim Bray – Mobile Gold: „We are, right now in early 2009, sliding into the golden age of mobile technology and business. […] What’s crucial is that there will be at least four players—all with healthy finances and real engineering depth—vying to build devices to improve your life. Which is wonderful! This kind of competition…

Gojko Adzic – Lazy web sites run faster: „Clever choice of asynchronous processing is definitely one of the most important decisions in any enterprise system. This is especially true for Web sites, where it absolutely plays a key role. Here are a few ideas to think about when deciding how to split the work.“ Also…

Atul Varma – Beautifully Documented Code: „I wasn’t very pleased with the typography of the generated content—though obviously the aesthetics were customizable through CSS, none of the default stylesheets left me dying to read the documentation I created. I’ve always had these kinds of hangups when it comes to design; a lack of it repels…

PHP still serves us great, it’s very stable and usually painless to work with. But this week I’ve spent some quality time with PHP 5.3 (alpha4-dev) since our long-running PHP command line scripts were (still) leaking memory… So I reported my third memory leak in PHP today, bug #47038 (the older ones were bug #46889…