Jahr: 2009

Dan Gillmor at guardian.co.uk – The new rules of news: „Transparency would be a core element of our journalism. One example of many: every print article would have an accompanying box called „Things We Don’t Know,“ a list of questions our journalists couldn’t answer in their reporting. TV and radio stories would mention the key…

Gojko Adzic – The Mythical Customer Problem: „Customer is a role, not a person. Very often it can’t be a single person – a domain expert that should ideally be on site is seldom the executive project sponsor who has the authority to approve cost or change plans. One group of people will know how…

James Turner at O’Reilly Radar – David Hoover’s Top 5 Tips for Apprentices: „Hoover says that most developers have benefited from one or two key people in their career that helped them move along. „For people that had had successful careers, they only point back to one or two people that mentored them for a…

Flax Xapian

Adobe® PDF Library software development kit (SDK)

„Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to…

Joel Spolsky – The Duct Tape Programmer: „Zawinski popularized Richard Gabriel’s precept of Worse is Better. A 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it’s in your lab where you’re endlessly polishing the damn thing. Shipping is a feature. A really important…

Joshua-Michéle Ross at O’Reilly Radar – Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice – They Don’t Need It: „The failure of newspapers is not a failure of imagination or foresight nor is it a failure of individuals. This kind of failure is the hallmark of all institutions in the face of tectonic disruption. Institutions are a…

Stormy Peters – Why you shouldn’t do it all yourself: „If I do it all myself, the GNOME Foundation will always need me. I hope to be part of the GNOME community for a long time but I think you do the best job you can when you work yourself out of a job whether…

Scott Adams – Healthcare: „A confusopoly – a term I concocted several years ago – is any industry that intentionally makes its products and services too complicated for comparison shopping. The best examples of confusopolies are cell phone carriers and insurance companies. And health insurance companies might be the most confusing confusopoly of all. I…