Jahr: 2011

„Mercury is a full featured HTML5 editor. It was built from the ground up to help your team get the most out of content editing in modern browsers. To keep Mercury simple, we support all browsers that have implemented the complete W3C contentEditable specification: Firefox 4+, Chrome 10+, Safari 5+“

Seth Godin – How to get a job with a small company: „Small businesses always need people who can sell, because selling pays for itself. It’s not an expense, it’s a profit center. Learn to write. […] There’s more writing in business today than ever before, and if you can become a persuasive copywriter, you’re…

Tim O’Reilly – A focus on the stuff that matters most: „Profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don’t want to run out of gas, but neither do you want to think that your road trip is a tour of gas stations.“

Jason Cohen in the Smart Bear Live! podcast, on talking to thirty people before you start building a prototype, to find out who would buy it and what they’d want you to build (starting at 1:33:58): „It sounds so easy – „I’ll just go talk to them and discover some stuff.“ It’s really hard and…

Marco Arment – How to bring good design to a platform: „Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail are prioritized and appreciated above everything else, including being the first to market, having the most features, or having the most aggressive prices.“

Matthias Marschall – How Non-negotiable Features Kill Software Products: „You dug your technical grave, but the rest of the company is celebrating a huge win! No one outside the tech department noticed how huge the technical debt you’ve just taken in order to deliver. […] If features are pre-sold without any option to negotiate what’s…

Tim Bray – DMR, 1941—2011: „Unix combines more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than anything else I’ve seen or am likely to see in my lifetime. It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my profession owes to Dennis Ritchie.“

„The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.“ Beautiful website, beautiful, free, high-quality SVG icon collection. And a store with nice iPhone cases and t-shirts.

Guy Kawasaki – What I learned from Steve Jobs: „Not everyone will believe—that’s okay. But the starting point of changing the world is changing a few minds. This is the greatest lesson of all that I learned from Steve.“

Steven Levy at Wired.com – Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011: „After what seemed to be a successful initial surgery, Jobs would vary from his circumspect stance just once, in his address to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. That speech, by the way, might be the best commencement address in history. When designing computers, Jobs…