Jahr: 2020

2020-12-15: „The journalism-as-structured-data revolution succeeded in a few places […], but it hasn’t succeeded on a broad scale. Journalists are storytellers accustomed to an old story form, and they’ve had trouble adapting their work to a structured approach.“ https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/12/the-future-of-fact-checking-is-all-about-structured-data/ 2020-12-12: “We need a new FrontPage. A FrontPage that uses HTML5 and CSS3 and modern JavaScript…

2020-09-29: Yes, sometimes it’s “technical debt” that can make sense to pay off later. But there’s no paying back with fundamentally bad design choices in the choreography of systems and data. You’ll live with them until you tear everything down and start from scratch. 2020-09-24: Irgendwann würde ich ihn gerne bauen: den Knowledge Graph, über…

2020-06-29: “Don’t use Event Sourcing unless you have a complex domain that has to deal with a lot of users working together on the same entities. […] Don’t ignore NoSQL as an alternative. […] Don’t use the domain events as a communication mechanism between domains or services.” https://www.dennisdoomen.com/2020/06/guidelines-event-sourcing.html 2020-06-24: Excellent, in-depth presentation of the @FinancialTimes…

In my role as “Project Manager for DAM systems” at the SPIEGEL-Verlag, I spent the last year helping to roll out the WoodWing Assets (formerly known as “Elvis”) DAM software. It’s not used for the print publication yet (as this premature press release suggests), but it powers most of the photos published on spiegel.de since…

2020-03-19: Today I drew my first UML diagram – and learning how to do it took only 15 minutes (this video + a quick Google search): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6lqHOVHic 2020-03-18: I’ll never understand why IT (& media) pros rely so much on oral tradition. Write down the most important information, and share it with others (who weren’t present,…