Autor: Tim Strehle

Marco Arment – Own your identity: „Sadly, most people don’t care about giving control of their online identity to current or future advertising companies. But there will always be the open web for the geeks, the misfits, the eccentrics, the control freaks, and any other term we can think of to proudly express our healthy…

Sam Ghods of Box.net – Make Your Business 10X Faster with Box’s New Search: „We re-evaluated our technology and decided to make a switch to a fully distributed and scalable search platform using the open source project Solr, powered by Lucene. If Solr sounds familiar, that’s because odds are good you’re already using it. Companies…

PDFBox – PDF Highlighting: „There are cases when you might want to highlight text in a PDF document. For example, if the PDF is the result of a search request you might want to highlight the word in the resulting PDF document. There are several ways this can be achieved, each method varying in complexity…

Gonzalo Ayuso – New features in PHP5.4 alpha1: „Added array dereferencing support: […] $a = new A(); echo $a->foo()[’name‘]; (Via entwickler.com.) Update: Playing with the new PHP5.4 features by the same author.

Matthew Rogers back in 2010 – Why Diaspora will fail: „Facebook isn’t evil by accident. Its massive numbers of users allow it to be that way. If the majority of people actually cared enough about their online privacy, then they’d leave Facebook.“ (Via Andreas Schiffler – Re: Replacing Facebook.)

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise – What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?: „Features can be different sizes with more or less complexity, but quality of experience should be constant across all features. That constant quality of experience is what gives your customers trust. It demonstrates to them that whatever you…

Lauren Rabaino – How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs: „1. Reporters and editors compose all stories in Google Docs. Using labels and native commenting, the stories get sent through the editing process. 2. When a story is ready to publish, it gets sent from Google Docs to WordPress…

Chade-Meng Tan – Do the right thing, wait to get fired: „I recently learned that one reason he was so successful was because he was unafraid to speak the unpleasant truth to his superiors to their faces.“ (Via Brian Fitzpatrick.)

Stijn Debrouwere – The trouble with usability experts: „Some engineers make unusable software because they’re clueless about interaction design. Many others just make unusable software because we don’t give them enough time to do a proper job. Hiring a usability expert won’t solve that.“

Natasha Gabriel – Content marketing is not enough — The fulfillment gap: „Too many companies focus on the on the point of sale as the key milestone, doing everything they can to close a sale. This is a flawed mindset. Instead of just trying to get money from customers, companies need to focus on getting…