Autor: Tim Strehle

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – Creatasphere DAM Europe Conference Summary: “The overwhelming sense I get is that vendors especially are too willing to invest in toys and trinkets while at the same time they leave duller and more complex (but ultimately more useful and requested) features like flexible workflow by the wayside…

Tim Bray – Better Quotes: “If you are publishing text for people to read and you want it to look even halfway professional, you absolutely must use real actual left and right quotation marks: “quotes” not „quotes“. Also right-single apostrophe: as in don’t use „don’t“.”

Patrick McKenzie – Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice: „The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which will add…

J.D. Hildebrand quotes Andy Hunt – Agile slaves: „These weren’t productive developers freed from mindless process dogma. They were Agile slaves. The dogma they followed was ours, and they followed it well. […] But they weren’t thinking, they weren’t reacting, they weren’t being agile. When problems came up, they addressed them with all the grace…

„Mercury is a full featured HTML5 editor. It was built from the ground up to help your team get the most out of content editing in modern browsers. To keep Mercury simple, we support all browsers that have implemented the complete W3C contentEditable specification: Firefox 4+, Chrome 10+, Safari 5+“

Seth Godin – How to get a job with a small company: „Small businesses always need people who can sell, because selling pays for itself. It’s not an expense, it’s a profit center. Learn to write. […] There’s more writing in business today than ever before, and if you can become a persuasive copywriter, you’re…

Tim O’Reilly – A focus on the stuff that matters most: „Profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don’t want to run out of gas, but neither do you want to think that your road trip is a tour of gas stations.“

Jason Cohen in the Smart Bear Live! podcast, on talking to thirty people before you start building a prototype, to find out who would buy it and what they’d want you to build (starting at 1:33:58): „It sounds so easy – „I’ll just go talk to them and discover some stuff.“ It’s really hard and…

Marco Arment – How to bring good design to a platform: „Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail are prioritized and appreciated above everything else, including being the first to market, having the most features, or having the most aggressive prices.“

Matthias Marschall – How Non-negotiable Features Kill Software Products: „You dug your technical grave, but the rest of the company is celebrating a huge win! No one outside the tech department noticed how huge the technical debt you’ve just taken in order to deliver. […] If features are pre-sold without any option to negotiate what’s…