Jahr: 2012

Nicholas C. Zakas – The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy): “Software engineers aren’t builders. Software engineers are creators. […] In software there’s “not enough time” to gather all the requirements ahead of time. The importance of moving quickly is hammered into us from day one. And so engineers learn…

Seth Godin – Redefining productivity: “The decision about what to do next is even more important than the labor spent executing it. A modern productive worker is someone who does a great job in figuring out what to do next.”

Deep Liquid: “Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.”

Eric Barroca interviewed for the Nuxeo blog Meet the Team series: “The main problem is staying focused on what matters. Being relatively small means you have limited resources, so we have to avoid distractions, and focus on delivering great software to customers. But we also have to let ourselves get distracted just enough by what’s…

Mike Loukides at O’Reilly Radar – Apple’s maps: “Apple is really looking at a data problem: bad data, incomplete data, conflicting data, poor quality data, incorrectly formatted data. Anyone who works with data understands that 80% of the work in any data product is getting your data into good enough shape so that it’s useable.…

Matthias Marschall – Where Agile Starts: “Treating your team members as resources will make them start acting like things instead of people. They’ll keep their great ideas to themselves. […] Respect their time Respect their goals Respect their needs”

Rowan Simpson – Be a good dictator: “So, ask yourself: What do you care about? What do you have authority over? What will you take responsibility for? […] Whether you’re a designer, developer or business person, the more your satisfaction is derived from shipping something, the more your success will be correlated with the success…

Michael Lopp – The Second Test: “Engineers are meritocratic, which means we don’t really care about your resume or your title. While your resume might be an interesting story that eventually led to your hiring, we want to see what you can build. Right now, that alien sitting across the table is wondering about your…

Ten years ago, in the September of 2002, I started publishing work notes and links on this page: Here’s the first post from the archives… I’m keeping this blog strictly work related (as I do with my Twitter account). So the main topics are Digital Asset Management, the web development technology stack (e.g. PHP, JavaScript,…

Miguel de Icaza – What Killed the Linux Desktop: “Back in February I attended FOSDEM and two of my very dear friends were giggling out of excitement at their plans to roll out a new system that will force many apps to be modified to continue running. They have a beautiful vision to solve a…