Autor: Tim Strehle

Joel Spolsky, back in 2001 – Human Task Switches Considered Harmful: „I feel like when I have two programming projects on my plate at once, the task switch time is something like 6 hours. In an 8-hour day, that means multitasking reduces my productivity to 2 hours per day. Pretty dismal. As it turns out,…

Signal vs. Noise – Nordstrom’s Employee Handbook — short and sweet: „Rule #1: Use best judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.“

Seth Godin – Organizing for joy: „The alternative, it seems, is to organize for joy. These are the companies that give their people the freedom (and yes, the expectation) that they will create, connect and surprise. These are the organizations that embrace someone who makes a difference, as opposed to searching for a clause in…

Tony Byrne at the Real Story Group blog – Beware big vendors if you care about viability: „Two decades and much gray hair later, I’ve come to the conclusion that the very biggest vendors can actually carry the highest risks in terms of product continuity. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Google, and SAP aren’t going to…

Alex Williams at ReadWriteEnterprise on a Lucene Revolution presentation of IDC senior analyst Hadley Reynolds – A Search Market Craters – Welcome to the App Diaspora: „After the collapse of the economy two years ago, a market force took effect that has led to the „cratering,“ of a small but telling sector of the enterprise…

Pingdom – REST in peace, SOAP: „Looks like the tide of the web API protocol war (if there ever was one) has shifted firmly in REST’s favor while SOAP has been forced back. Web developers have cast their votes, they want RESTful APIs.“ (Via Tim Bray.)

GetApp.com – Why SaaS Vendors and Buyers Need to Care About APIs: „Saas vendors should offer open APIs to integrate with other products and make the life of their clients easier and safer. As John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.com, recently said: “Not having an API in 2010 is like not having a web site in…

Seth Godin – Demonstrating strength: „Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.“

David Veksler – Some lesser-known truths about programming: „Software rot is unavoidable, but programmers who fail to take conceptual integrity into consideration create software that rots so so fast that it becomes worthless before it is even completed. […] Good programmers think about their work 24/7. They write their most important code in the shower…

Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo – This Is How Much Apple Has Changed In a Decade: „Back then, Steve Jobs preached the new iMac as the center of your digital life, the internet machine. Now, the internet machine fits in your pocket. But with sixteen times the memory, eight times the storage, and more than double…