Jahr: 2012

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – S3 Now Supports CORS – Does The Separation Of DAM Client And Server Applications Start Here?: “What it means is that multiple hosted front-ends can now work on the same asset file. Therefore, it is feasible for a separate class of ‘client side application’ to be mixed…

Juan Pablo Sarmiento – 11 Reasons Why Responsive Design Isn’t That Cool!: “Viewing a responsive website on a mobile device forces the CPU and memory of it while resizing images because you are downloading a large image, uncompressing it in your phone’s memory and then resizing it to fit a small screen. […] CSS media…

Erik Hartman at CMSWire – Managing Metadata – Any Volunteers?: “Librarians and archivists for that matter, are academically trained in using metadata for retrieval and reuse. Though well equipped for the task, most librarians are quite invisible to the web team and on the verge of being fired due to budget cuts. These people can…

Dave Winer – What I wanted, part II: “This was a secret of mine, because most of my competitors not only didn’t listen to their users, but they didn’t even use their own products. […] Be both a user and a developer. That way you understand users, and you can make their dreams come true,…

Craig Malloy on CMS Wire – The Service Economy and the New Role of the Enterprise CMS: “Employees are choosing their own productivity applications and the adoption rates are putting even some of the most successful enterprise applications to shame. The traditional enterprise content management market can do little to stop this. And few consumer-workers…

Scott Adams – Rewarding Work: “Whenever you see the x-factor in someone’s output – that little extra something that turns the good into the awesome – it’s a marker for intrinsic motivation. […] To get to awesome you need to think you might be changing the world, saving lives, redeeming your reputation, attracting the mate…

Dave Winer – Respect: “I respect people who ship software that’s open to competition, and then write specs to show people how to compete with them. It’s just like the web. People come back to places that send them away.”

Matt Mullen at Real Story Group – Big Experience Management? Coping With The Hype Cycle: “There is something really important to consider here; namely that the there is an increasing gap between the what vendors are pushing as important and what real customer use cases actually demand. […] It surely makes sense to revisit possible…

“Redactor is the most fantastic yet beautiful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor on jQuery. It is lightning fast, small, scalable, and powerful.”

Matthias Marschall – Why Agile Fails: “Agile will begin casting bright spotlights on these weak spots in your development process. The rug that everyone has been sweeping under for the past decade is suddenly lifted and the dark, scurrying truths see the light of day. People don’t care much for harsh truths, and when they…