Autor: Tim Strehle

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…

As a so-called “senior developer”, I should have taken the time to help 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 be…

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.…

Miles Kehoe at Enterprise Search – A paradigm shift in enterprise search: “Solr is the enterprise search market now. […] What’s interesting is the number of commercial products based on Solr and it’s underlying platform, Lucene. Years ago, commercial search software was the ’safe choice‘. Now I think things have changed: open source search is…

Kent Beck – Focusing Talks: Three Questions: “The sad truth is that many talks don’t affect anyone’s life at all. Better to reach one person than zero. Once I am able to reach one person, others in the actual audience sitting there are likely to be able to „get it“ too. Even people who don’t…

Ralph Windsor at Digital Asset Management News – Digital Asset Management Value Chain – Search: “It is not sufficient to offer a search capability which is just simple to use, it needs to be able to cope with an ever widening range of users and also the increasing volume of assets being stored. […] When…