Autor: Tim Strehle

I enjoy modeling data. As students, we were taught the relational data model (as used by SQL databases) and hierarchical database structures. But the real eye-opener was when our professor started modeling a supposedly simple example: an address book. Very soon, we ran into lots of questions with no easy answers: How are persons and…

I just finished reading the book “REWORK” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. To be honest, I enjoyed it slightly less than I had expected: It’s a great (and beautiful) book, but I have been following Signal vs. Noise and similar blogs for years now, so most ideas weren’t new to me. (And isn’t…

Alexia Tsotsis at TechCrunch – The Enterprise Cool Kids: “The enterprise world evolves from a sales-driven to a product-driven approach. ‚The user is now the buyer, and the center of gravity is no longer in IT, it’s actually in the line of business themselves,‘ says Christian Gheorghe. […] [They] focus on intuitiveness and design, awareness…

Why have children, or – as a company – why have customers? (Assuming you’re lucky enough to have them.) You better treat your customers as grown-ups, but I think there’s some similarities. In both cases, it’s the natural thing to do: We have the former for more love in our lives, and the latter for…

I just discovered this article from 2004, which I can strongly relate to (having worked with headphones for years now)… Jeff Atwood – This is your Anti-Productivity Pod: “’Staying late or arriving early or staying home to work in peace is a damning indictment of the office environment.‘ […] Changing your work environment, however, is…

Ralph Windsor and Naresh Sarwan of DAM News – The Digital Asset Management Value Chain: The Future Direction Of DAM In 2013 And Beyond: “As a buyer, you can’t pick and choose features from one and plug them into another, you have to sift through reams of potential options and try to select the least…

Ralph Windsor and Naresh Sarwan of DAM News have published an excellent article: The Digital Asset Management Value Chain: The Future Direction Of DAM In 2013 And Beyond describes the current market, with literally dozens of similar vendors “commit[ing] major proportions of their development team’s time […] replicating functionality that a section of their competitors…

David Heinemeier Hansson – Your life’s work: “In an industry so focused on the booms and busts, I find myself a kindred spirit with the firms of old. Places where people happily reported to work for 40 years, picking up a snazzy gold watch at the end as a token of life-long loyalty. Committing myself…

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“D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.”