Autor: Tim Strehle

Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn: Semi-closed networks have grown to capture most “social” interactions on the Web as well as a lot of content, and they own many people’s online identities. There’s an emerging trend in the software developer community to move out of these “walled gardens” or “silos” – for lots of good reasons (see…

David Diamond – DAM Beauty and Usability: “Beauty and usability are typically not words associated with digital asset management software, and for good reason. Have you seen the user interfaces of most DAMs? […] DAMs should be as close to invisible as possible. No one learns to create digital content just to spend time in…

I’m trying to find a good “elevator pitch” for building hypermedia APIs with HTML. How about this: Don’t build an API – publish your data instead: easy to read for both humans (not just developers) and software, and easy to link to. After providing read access, the next step is to enable others to modify…

One year ago, I wrote on Twitter that “my next API will be semantic XHTML”. Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about Hypermedia APIs with HTML (and have done some prototyping). My dream API would use XHTML with RDFa, link to Atom feeds and offer an alternative JSON-LD representation. Here’s a few articles on…

The Typo3 Neos 2017 WCM Forecast has experts predict the future of Web content management, with some great quotes. Karen McGrane: “First, organizations will realize that WCMS doesn’t always support true multi-channel publishing. They will need to invest in new systems to decouple the authoring and storage layer from the presentation and publishing layer. This…

I’m currently learning/exploring RDFa (try searching my blog for “rdfa”). As a total newbie to the world of RDF and RDFa, these tools and resources have been helpful so far: First, the W3C RDFa 1.1 Primer is easy reading, a great introduction to RDFa. And it links to the full specifications (which are also well-written).…

A week ago, I wrote on Twitter: “A bit harsh, but: CxOs tend to fantasize, salespeople to lie, developers to underestimate. Poor project managers (and customers).” This wasn’t intended as a rant: These are common pitfalls which contribute to software projects not being finished on time (or not at all). It’s a well-known fact that…

Henrik Kniberg – The Solution to Technical Debt: “Crap gets into the code because programmers put it in! Let me make that crystal clear: Crappy Code is created by programmers. […] However, the most probable reason for why you are writing crappy code is: Pressure. […] Sometimes the cause of the pressure is the programmers…