Jahr: 2009

Andrew Stellman at Building Better Software – Using nonfunctional requirements to build better software: „One of those senior architects I mentioned gave me a really good tip recently, one that really rings true. He told me, “Always think about performance from day one of your project, and test for it until you deliver.” […] I…

Ajaxian – Fast by Default and Web Performances, on a slide by Steve Souder of Google: „SPEED is the next competitive advantage – use it … before someone else does“

Jason Fried at Inc. – The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals: „In the software world, the first, second, and third versions of any product are really pretty good, because everyone can use them. Then companies start adding more and more stuff to keep their existing customers happy. But you end up dying with…

Mark Sigal at O’Reilly Radar – iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts: „I would submit that my experiences underscore a hard truth in the age of iPhone; namely, that successful device vendors can no longer deliver piecemeal offerings that ‚mostly work.‘ Rather, they have to deliver complete product solutions that work consistently as expected.“

Adobe Flex Builder Omni Group OmniGraffle TechSmith Camtasia for Mac VMware Fusion (and Windows XP running in a VM) That’s all. (As an Adobe partner, our company also has licenses for developing and testing against the Adobe Creative Suite but that’s not what I use to get my work done.) It’s great that developing software…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Solr heads for an even sunnier future: „Anyone who’s been watching the search space for a while knows that Apache Solr — the popular open-source search server built on Lucene — is the elephant in the room for a great many product-selection teams these days. It may be an…

Joel Spolsky – Capstone projects and time management: „College students in their final year have about 16 years of experience doing short projects and leaving everything until the last minute. […] This might be a neat opportunity to use Scrum. […] I’ve been blaming students, here, for lacking the discipline to do term-length projects throughout…

Eric Ries – A real Customer Advisory Board: „In a previous company, we put together a group of passionate early adopters. […] Every two months, the company would have a big end-of-milestone meeting, with our Board of Directors, Business Advisory Board, and all employees present. At this meeting, we’d present a big package of our…

Irina Guseva et al. – Things We Hate About Content Management: „Interfaces need a comfortable lived in feel. Content management is something people work with every day, it is their interface to their job. You meet people who hate the interface, and that makes their work a heap of pain. I have seen people who…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal: „Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache,…