Autor: Tim Strehle

I’ve got a nice job and I’m not hunting for a new one. This allows me to have some fun writing an uncommon resume – honest and personal. Not the polished, impersonal copy you’d use in a real-world job application. (Please remind me to delete this blog post if I’m actually searching for a job…

“Koken is a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent websites of their work. Exceptional media management: Koken manages your uploaded images and videos through a dedicated, desktop-like interface. […] Koken is free and may be installed on your own web server.” Written in PHP. My test installation was up…

Henrik de Gyor – How do people talk about DAM within an organization?: “Break down the silos, egos and misconceptions. Stop throwing work over a real/virtual wall. Stop ignoring what happens before, during and after someone works on something. […] Leave your comfort zone and get a fresh look at what the other groups do…

Being what they call a “senior developer”, I should have invested some time helping younger colleagues learn. (I may have shied away from teaching them because they usually have real Computer Science degrees, while I’m just an Information Scientist-turned-programmer with lots of self-education and training on the job. But not all real-world wisdom seems to…

Rich Armstrong in the Fog Creek Blog – Dogfooding Until It Hurts: “In this video from 2009, Joel [Spolsky] talks about dogfooding as being more than just using your own product. It’s about using your own product for everything you can imagine, even if that usage is a little uncomfortable.”

I finally found a solution to a problem that has bugged me for years: When editing PHP source code on my Mac, the code would occasionally break completely with an error message like “PHP Fatal error: Cannot use [] for reading in … on line …”. The code on that line would look completely fine…

UX Movement – Avoid the Pains of Pagination: “Stop making your pages so short and allow users to scroll for more content instead of clicking. […] [Turn] your “next” and “previous” links into larger links or buttons. With a larger click target, users will be able to spot and hit it faster and easier. […]…

Will Norris (who works at Google) – No one cares about your URLs (so buy a domain): “The only way for you to ensure the integrity and longevity of your content is for you to take ownership of how it is accessed. Do yourself a favor and go buy a domain that you use for…

Shanley Kane – What Your Culture Really Says: “Culture is not about the furniture in your office. It is not about how much time you have to spend on feel-good projects. It is not about catered food, expensive social outings, internal chat tools, your ability to travel all over the world, or your never-ending self-congratulation.…