Autor: Tim Strehle

Paul Graham – How to Present to Investors: „The biggest fear of investors looking at early stage startups is that you’ve built something based on your own a priori theories of what the world needs, but that no one will actually want. So it’s good if you can talk about problems specific users have and…

Lyz Krumbach – Google Internals Talk: „This Google Internals talk takes you through the basics of how Google uses their approximately 450,000 servers to run everything from Google search to GMail worldwide. The slides are based on information gathered from reliable Google sources, including talks given by Google staff, and gives you a very basic…

Bloglines – Feed Access Control Standard for RSS and ATOM: „We are proposing (and have implemented) an RSS and ATOM extension that allows publishers to indicate the distribution restrictions of a feed. Setting the access restriction to ‚deny‘ will indicate the feed should not be re-distributed. In Bloglines, we’ll use this to prevent the display…

Curtis Poe – Project Management by Dummies: „In economics, search costs are the costs of acquiring information. Whether you pay for it, research it in books or on the Web or just discover it for yourself, the more time you spend searching for information the less time you have to develop your product. How many…

Jarosław Rzeszótko – Stiff asks, great programmers answer: „Steve Yegge: […] You’ll never make it very far as a programmer in any field unless you can get your ideas across to people effectively. Programmers should read voraciously, practice writing, take writing courses, and even practice at public speaking.“

Tim Bray – OSCON – Open Data: „At the end of the day, information outlives software and transcends software and is more valuable than software. I think any online service can call itself “Open” if it makes, and lives up to, this commitment: Any data that you give us, we’ll let you take away again,…

Niall Kennedy – Rasmus Lerdorf on scaling web apps with PHP: „Rasmus Lerdorf led OSCON attendees through a series of optimizations for modern web applications using PHP at O’Reilly’s Open Source conference today. Most programmers use default installations and configurations for their web applications and never really dig deep within their stack or their own…

Kevin Quiggle and Mike Whitton at Linux.com – A geo-located photo album in five easy pieces: „Open standards, and openness in general, enables people to combine a variety of technologies in new and interesting ways. For example, using a camera with Exif support, a GPS receiver, the Google Maps API, and Perl, PHP and JavaScript,…

„What CouchDb is: * A stand-alone document store, accessible via XML REST. * Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space. * Distributed, featuring robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution. * Query-able and index-able, featuring a table oriented reporting engine with a simplified formula query language. The CouchDb data model was partially…

Jon Udell – A new breed of highly-available serverless applications: „Bill Seitz alerted me to one of those footpaths the other day: Les Orchard’s S3-backed wiki. Outstandingly cool! For those who have not followed the various plot threads closely, this is an evolution of the idea of the serverless wiki. […] Les has substituted Amazon’s…