Autor: Tim Strehle

Pieter Hintjens – How to Design Perfect (Software) Products: Trash-Oriented Design: “Eventually, something resembling a working product makes it out of the door. It’s creaky and fragile, complex and ugly. The designers curse the engineers for their incompetence and pay more consultants to put lipstick onto the pig, and slowly the product starts to look…

Seth Godin – Who cares?: “If we define good enough sufficiently low, we’ll probably meet our standards. Caring involves raising that bar to the point where the team has to stretch. […] Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.”

An interview by Jane Zupan on the Nuxeo Content Geeks blog – Is 2012 the Year of User Experience in ECM?: “In the not-too-distant past, user experience (UX) was considered an annoying afterthought for enterprise application development and deployment. User adoption was often disappointing, and the disconnect between business and IT seemed like a deep…

Tim Bray – Not Piracy: “Anyone who claims that unauthorized transmission of bits is analogous to piracy is at least a liar and is deeply disrespectful of the people who are suffering the effects of theft, kidnapping, and murder right now today in the Indian Ocean. They deserve your contempt, and they have mine.”

ISYS Document Filters: “Support for hundreds of common and legacy file, email, archive and container formats (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, WordPerfect, ZIPs, MSGs). […] Converts files into HTML and renders embedded graphics as a JPEG or PNG.” (Via Enterprise Search.)

IT Enquirer – Successful DAM evolves to publishing system: “Integration or downright transformation into a publishing system: DAM vendors are hot in today’s digitized world. […] Typical usages for DAM are for example brand management and photo management. Increasingly DAM is also shifting from pure management system to publishing system. […] Digital Asset Management can…

Joel Spolsky – How Trello is different: “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures. Spreadsheets are not just tools for doing „what-if“ analysis. They provide a specific data structure: a table. Most Excel users never enter a formula. […] Word processors are not just tools for writing books, reports, and letters.…

Ed Finkler – The MicroPHP Manifesto: “I am not a Zend Framework or Symfony or CakePHP developer […] I like building small things that work together to solve larger problems […] I need to justify every piece of code I add to a project” (I mostly agree, but I love Rush!)

Ben Yoskovitz – Small Features: “The first instinct is to build a configuration option to let people decide how they want it to work. That’s more code, more complexity, more risk and potential points of failure. It also means more UI has to be designed, and once you go down that road it’s hard to…

Stijn Debrouwere – Taxonomies don’t matter anymore: “Automated recommendation engines are mainly useful as cute but non-essential pageview drivers and if your journalists are too lazy to add links. […] We don’t come to topic pages for automatically aggregated sort-of-relevant content with no editorial guidance as to what’s important and what’s not. Sometimes, you just…