Jahr: 2011

Stijn Debrouwere – Taxonomies don’t matter anymore: “Automated recommendation engines are mainly useful as cute but non-essential pageview drivers and if your journalists are too lazy to add links. […] We don’t come to topic pages for automatically aggregated sort-of-relevant content with no editorial guidance as to what’s important and what’s not. Sometimes, you just…

Seth Godin – Tools vs insight: “Knowing about a tool is one thing. Having the guts to use it in a way that brings art to the world is another. Perhaps we need to spend less time learning new tools and more time using them.”

Atlassian Confluence team – Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0: “Wiki markup as a storage format hindered our ability to add new features, like merge table cells, that customers had been demanding. This is because Wiki Markup is a very limited subset of XHTML and because any new editor feature had…

Seth Godin – A great way to give thanks…: “For every person reading this there are a thousand people (literally a thousand) in underprivileged nations and situations that would love to have your slot. Don’t waste it.”

Alex MacCaw – Asynchronous UIs – the future of web user interfaces: “Move state & view rendering to the client side. […] The idea is that you update the client before you send an Ajax request to the server. For example, say a user updated a page name in a CMS. With an asynchronous UI,…

W3C Candidate Recommendation Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 (July 2011): “The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing…

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – Creatasphere DAM Europe Conference Summary: “The overwhelming sense I get is that vendors especially are too willing to invest in toys and trinkets while at the same time they leave duller and more complex (but ultimately more useful and requested) features like flexible workflow by the wayside…

Tim Bray – Better Quotes: “If you are publishing text for people to read and you want it to look even halfway professional, you absolutely must use real actual left and right quotation marks: “quotes” not „quotes“. Also right-single apostrophe: as in don’t use „don’t“.”

Patrick McKenzie – Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice: „The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which will add…

J.D. Hildebrand quotes Andy Hunt – Agile slaves: „These weren’t productive developers freed from mindless process dogma. They were Agile slaves. The dogma they followed was ours, and they followed it well. […] But they weren’t thinking, they weren’t reacting, they weren’t being agile. When problems came up, they addressed them with all the grace…