Autor: Tim Strehle

Rob Walling – Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched: „If you’ve not working directly with at least two customers you have no idea if what you’re building is adding value. Or a total waste of time.“

Matt Mullenweg – 1.0 is the Loneliest Number: „Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen…

Werner Vogels of Amazon.com in a blog comment back in 2006: „The best way to completely automate operations is to have to developers be responsible for running the software they develop. It is painful at times, but also means considerable creativity gets applied to a very important aspect of the software stack. It also brings…

Rob Walling – It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent: „We’re entrepreneurs – we’re made to be passionate about ideas, and the next idea is always the easiest one to be passionate about. Yep, it’s tons of fun to think of ideas. And it’s easy. It’s also fun to start building them. And…

Jon Udell at O’Reilly Radar – Heds, deks, and ledes: „When a copy editor applies a real or virtual red pencil to a piece of journalistic prose, he or she is likely to use weird spellings: hed for head (headline), dek for deck (subhead), lede for lead (first paragraph). The idea is that these intentional…

Gojko Adzic – Seven key ideas of real quality assurance: „“You don’t get quality by testing it in, you get it by designing it in”, said [Tom] Gilb. Many business users never define what they actually want in a measurable way according to Gilb, which is why projects do not meet the expected levels of…

Steve Yegge back in 2006 – (Not) Managing Software Developers: „I think the best managers don’t want to manage: they want to lead. In fact most leaders probably don’t think about it much, at least at first, because they’re too busy leading: rushing headlong towards a goal and leading everyone around them in that direction,…

William Kent back in 1988 – The Many Forms of a Single Fact: „There is an underlying fallacy, namely the assumption that a simple binary fact (relationship or attribute) always maps simply into a pair of fields. While that is the foundation of current data design methodologies, there exist a troublesome number of exceptions in…

Michal Zalewski – HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols: „There is simply no accurate, offcial account of cookie behavior in modern browsers; the two relevant RFCs, often cited by people arguing on the Internet, are completely out of touch with reality. This forces developers to discover compatible behaviors by trial and error –…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – NoSQL Took Away The Relational Model And Gave Nothing Back: „With NoSQL all relationships have been pushed back onto the poor programmer to implement in code rather than the database managing it. We’ve sacrificed usability. NoSQL is about concurrency, latency, and scalability, but it’s not about data.“