Autor: Tim Strehle

John Allspaw – On Being A Senior Engineer: “In any project, the designers, product managers, operations engineers, developers, and business development folks all have goals and perspectives, and mature engineers realize that those goals and views may be different. They understand this so that they can navigate effectively in the work that they do. Being…

David Allen – Why do people let themselves get overwhelmed at work?: “People tend to both over-commit and to be inefficient. Few people know exactly how much work they actually have, and therefore must take everything on that they think about and that others ask them to do.” (Via Jack Vinson.)

Eric Steven Raymond in The Art of Unix Programming – Attitude Matters Too: “When you see the right thing, do it — this may look like more work in the short term, but it’s the path of least effort in the long run. If you don’t know what the right thing is, do the minimum…

Gerry McGovern at CMS Wire – Empathy: The Web Professional’s Greatest Skill: “One very interesting technique Tomer uses to combat ‘stay in the building’ syndrome he calls Field Fridays. “Field Fridays are an excellent opportunity for software engineers to meet users face to face, see how they use their products, and learn about their behavior.…

MediaGoblin – How to respond to a YouTube cat-astrophe? Decentralize the web!: “Today, for a few minutes, YouTube went down. For a brief moment in time, millions of cat voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. […] But there is a structural problem, one that’s the case with any major centralized service: when…

Nicholas C. Zakas – The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy): “Software engineers aren’t builders. Software engineers are creators. […] In software there’s “not enough time” to gather all the requirements ahead of time. The importance of moving quickly is hammered into us from day one. And so engineers learn…

Seth Godin – Redefining productivity: “The decision about what to do next is even more important than the labor spent executing it. A modern productive worker is someone who does a great job in figuring out what to do next.”

Deep Liquid: “Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.”

Eric Barroca interviewed for the Nuxeo blog Meet the Team series: “The main problem is staying focused on what matters. Being relatively small means you have limited resources, so we have to avoid distractions, and focus on delivering great software to customers. But we also have to let ourselves get distracted just enough by what’s…

Mike Loukides at O’Reilly Radar – Apple’s maps: “Apple is really looking at a data problem: bad data, incomplete data, conflicting data, poor quality data, incorrectly formatted data. Anyone who works with data understands that 80% of the work in any data product is getting your data into good enough shape so that it’s useable.…