Jahr: 2013

A pig on a technical blog? Sorry for being off-topic (and don’t expect good photos, I’m just a point-and-shoot amateur): I’ll publish a few images now and then because I want to experiment (in public) with semantic markup for both articles and images. I’d like to find out what search engines make of my HTML…

C. Lawrence Wenham – Signs that you’re a good programmer: “In fact, another way to become emotionally detached from code is to put your interest into the outcome instead. The outcome you should be thinking of is a lady who’s going to get fired if she doesn’t deliver the output of your program at 4:59pm…

Software Gunslinger – PHP is meant to die: “No matter how good or clever your idea looked on paper, if you want to keep the processes running forever they will crash, and will do it really fast under load, because of known or unknown reasons. That’s nothing you can really control, it’s because PHP is…

Tom Heath, Christian Bizer – Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space: “This book gives an overview of the principles of Linked Data as well as the Web of Data that has emerged through the application of these principles. The book discusses patterns for publishing Linked Data, describes deployed Linked Data applications…

David Lieb – Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think: “Put your user in the middle of your flow. Make them press an extra button, make them provide some inputs, let them be part of the service-providing, rather than a bystander to it. If they are part of the flow,…

Derek Sivers – Seeking inspiration?: “The inspiration is not the receiving of information. The inspiration is applying what you’ve received. People think that if they keep reading articles, browsing books, listening to talks, or meeting people, that they’re going to suddenly get inspired. […] You have to pause the input, and focus on your output.”

Shanley Kane – How the Productivity Myth is Killing Your Startup: “You have to admire the insipid, dogged and naive devotion people have to believing they are going to get this huge of list of things done. […] All 10 projects are delivered late and half-assed. This is most sad for project number 4, which…