Autor: Tim Strehle

Andrew Stellman – Confessions of a jerk: „I perfected all of the programmer stonewalling tricks to get people to stop asking me questions: interrupting people with pedantic questions before they’d barely started getting to the point, sending people back with half-answers so I didn’t have to think through the question I was being asked, answering…

Dave Winer – What will become of Twitter?: „Twitter is a wonderful solution to many of the problems we had with RSS, most importantly, how to go from the impulse to subscribe to having actually subscribed. In Twitter it’s one click. In RSS, it’s an unpredictable number of complex clicks. That in a nutshell is…

Seth Godin – In defense of RSS: „RSS is quiet and fast and professional and largely hype-free. Perhaps that’s why it’s not the flavor of the day.“

Patrick McKenzie – Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You: „Setting up a staging server should be easy. If it is not easy, you already have a problem in your infrastructure, you just don’t know it yet: you’ve cobbled together your production server over time, usually by manually SSHing…

Stijn Debrouwere – Looking for a co-conspirator: „Drupal and WordPress are perfectly fine for publishing to the web. What we want to build is a content hub for managing the gloriously messy editorial process. A content hub that loves structured data and semantic annotations. A launch pad for pushing content to any platform you can…

Anonymous guest post at Gia Lyons – An unhealthy obsession with organization: „I want everyone to think about the way they use documents today, your SharePoint sites, your shared drives with team project folder structures, your Atlassian Wikis. You’ve invested a lot of energy into finely crafting an organizational structure that will last a thousand…

Leala Abbott – The Analog-ists Revenge: How analog thinking can impact DAM: „Digital Asset Managers understand that every digital asset we choose comes with a cost (resources it will take to manage, upkeep, file formats, migrations etc), therefore we are extremely judicious with both what we keep (the assets) and how we keep it (the…

Andrew Stellman – Inflict bad UX on users you secretly hate: „You’d be surprised at how often programmers are completely unaware that they have serious UX [user experience] and usability problems. Just a few days ago, someone told me, “Our users are using our software, so we don’t have any usability issues!” One of my…

Signal vs. Noise cites David Heinemeier Hansson – Quote: The number one competitor we have in our…: „People are organizing through email. They’re keeping track of their notes through email. They’re doing all this stuff through email. And email is incredibly simple, basically just a text box that you can send to other people or…

Linda Stone at O’Reilly Radar – Why „Delivering Happiness“ is a must read: „At many companies, software developers are rewarded for knocking out the list of features and cranking toward the release date with no emphasis on the quality of the feature being checked. Does it work? Check. Tests ran? Check. Is anyone asking if…